A high point of hiking and hunting is setting up your camp, outdoor cooking, and sleeping in the wilderness. If you don’t want to maximize your misery, it is good to optimize your hiking equipment to your comfort level. Somebody’s ideal camping gear list might consist of a big knife and a loincloth but others might want a bit more outdoor equipment. Make a must-have camping gear list and then leave out half of it and you are pretty close to the essential camping gear set. This group has pretty much all the cool camping gear you need and then some.

Used camping gear?

Would you like to have the best camping gear, but aren’t too happy with what that costs? Feast your eyes on our military surplus section. The name might sound like tanks and guns but when you consider that soldiers spend quite a lot of time marching and camping, it starts sounding pretty tempting. We get quite a lot of cheap military surplus camping gear. It may not be as lightweight but tactical camping gear has a couple of good points: price and quality. It beats your average discount camping gear in durability many times over.