Keeping Canvas and Steel Alive: Off-Season Gear Care
Dry it, oil it, store it loose - the off-season hour that saves a spring of replacements.
Field-tested
8 min
Average pitch time, two-person ridge tent
Pine Hollow workshop
Every ridge tent is pitched, rained on and packed down through a full outdoor season before it ever reaches the shop floor.
Canvas is 10 oz cotton duck, waxed by hand until it beads water; chair frames are oiled hardwood; every seam is stitched, not glued. Nothing in the catalogue is built to be thrown out after one bad weekend.
- Cotton duck canvas weight, waxed by hand
- 10 oz
- Tie-outs on every waxed camp tarp
- 12
From the fire ring
Campers keep the receipts
Third summer on the same Ridgehold and it pitches like day one. Lost a pole cap in a river - the spare arrived before the next weekend.
The Lowridge chairs survived two festivals and a toddler. Slings washed, wood oiled, good as new. Bought two more for the fire circle.
The First Camp box made us look like seasoned campers on trip one. We were not. The journal checklist got us the rest of the way.
Made properly
Canvas, wood and steel
Every tent, chair and stove is built the repairable way: stitched seams, bolted joints, spliced rope. Materials that age instead of expiring - waxed canvas re-proofs, hardwood re-oils, steel takes a file - and anything that fails expensively never reaches the shelf.
See how we buildHow it works
The four stops between checkout and camp
Four steps between you and a better-equipped camp.
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Plan once
Every product page starts with plain-language capacity and packed-size notes.
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We pack & ship
Orders leave within two business days in plastic-free packaging.
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Camp hard
Mud, sparks and pack-downs - that is what the field season was for.
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Repair, not replace
Spares ship with guides; most fixes take minutes at the picnic table.
Proven on Real Trips
Pitched in wind, rained on, cooked over and packed down before anything earns a listing.
Repair Over Replace
Spare poles, slings, taps and buckles stocked for every model.
Free Shipping Over $75
Tracked delivery included on qualifying orders.
Easy Returns, No Fuss
Unused gear returns freely within 30 days of delivery.
Most packed
Trail-tested favourites
The pieces our customers hand down, not throw out.
Start simple
A camp, not a shopping spree
Tent, bag, pad, lantern, kettle - the honest first-camp list. Everything is designed to work together, so a first campsite starts with one tidy crate and grows only as your trips do.
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Every camp deserves better gear.
Free tracked shipping over $75 - packed today, at the trailhead this week.
