Hello, long time lurker here. I did a search (like I always do to find out what I am looking for) to try to find a list of all the cottage industry hiking gear makers in one place and came up with nothing. I recently sold off almost all of my gear in order to help finance a new kit of lighter weight higher quality gear. I thought it would be handy for those trying to rebuild their kits to have a list of all those hard to find (unless you already know about them) gear makers. I'll start off with a few links to sites... post up others that you can think of and I'll add them to my list.

Gossamer gear- http://www.gossamergear.com/

Integral designs- http://www.integraldesigns.com/

Nunatak- http://www.nunatakusa.com/

Six Moon designs- http://www.sixmoondesigns.com/

Tarptent- http://www.tarptent.com/

Titanium Goat- http://www.titaniumgoat.com/

ULA - http://www.ula-equipment.com/index.htm

MLD - http://www.mountainlaureldesigns.com/index.php

Fanatic Fringe - http://www.fanaticfringe.com/index.html

Oware - http://www.owareusa.com/

Zpacks - http://www.zpacks.com

Ultralight Outfitters - http://www.ultralightoutfitters.com/index.html

Simblissity - http://www.simblissity.net/index.shtml

Ultralight Designs - http://ultralightdesigns.com/

Minibull Designs - http://www.minibulldesign.com/

Speer hammocks- http://www.speerhammocks.com/

Jacks ‘R’ Better- http://www.jacksrbetter.com/

McHale Packs- http://www.mchalepacks.com/

Claytor hammocks - www.mosquitohammock.com

Clark jungle hammocks - www.junglehammock.com

O.E.S.- http://www.outdoorequipmentsupplier.com/index.htm

Cooke custom sewing- http://www.cookecustomsewing.com/welcome.htm

Stephenson's warmlite- http://warmlite.com/start.htm

Stick Pick- http://www.thestickpic.com/



***I don't think these are truly cottage industry but they do make some great gear***

*Hennessy Hammocks- http://hennessyhammock.com/catalogue.html

*Granite Gear- http://www.granitegear.com/Index.html

*GoLite- http://www.golite.com/main/home.aspx