In a backpacking gallery, I usually go to the ones with people in them first. I’m so engrossed with what gear they are using in the purple mountains majesties and in the fruited plains. I love to see what tools helps them enjoy Mother Earth.

I get turned on when I see a Tarptent in the Rockies, a Z-Pack in IL, A Western Mountaineering in IN, a Jacks R Better in WY…
I just can’t help it.

-Barry