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Our first French Trail Ambassador

Gossamer Gear | Oct 31, 2011
Please help welcome Ludovik Pradel, our first French Trail Ambassador. He is an avid hiker and climber and spends al...
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Trail Ambassador Lint

Gossamer Gear | Oct 17, 2011
When not drinking beer and burning wooden pallets down by the river, Lint spends his time on the long distance trail...
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New Trail Ambassador Guthook

Gossamer Gear | Sep 30, 2011
Meet Guthook, aka Ryan Linn, our latest addition to the Trail Ambassador family. Ryan is a long-distance backpacker,...
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What to put in a Daypack

Gossamer Gear | Sep 26, 2011
What you carry in your day pack can be haphazard at best. Here is a well thought out post by Don Meredith, one of ou...
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Newest Trail Ambassador

Gossamer Gear | Sep 12, 2011
Meet Mark Roberts, our newest addition to the Trail Ambassador family. Originating from England, he grew up walking ...
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Mission Pine Basin Trail Work

Gossamer Gear | Sep 07, 2011
Over the July 4th weekend Paul Cronshaw, one of our Trail Ambassadors, lead a group of 5 VWR Litehikers from McKinle...
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Hidden Europe

Gossamer Gear | Sep 02, 2011
Trail Ambassador Francis Tapon is back in the states after putting the finishing touches on his latest ebook on East...
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Nimblewill Nomad back at the Triple O's

Gossamer Gear | Aug 24, 2011
We just heard that Nimblewill Nomad’s attempt of the triple O’s was temporarily interrupted. The Triple Os are the O...
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Ultralight A-Z

Gossamer Gear | Jul 26, 2011
Over the last few years Hendrik Morkel has been spreading the ultralight backpacking gospel in writing on his blog Hi...
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Newest Trail Ambassador

Gossamer Gear | Jun 29, 2011
Please welcome Don Meredith to our Trail Ambassador team. Don lives in South Carolina and has been exploring the bene...
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Santa Barbara Hikes

Gossamer Gear | Jun 10, 2011
We at Gossamer always love to toot our Trail Ambassador's horns, and T.A. Diane Soini has written a great book about ...
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Ozarks with Nimblewill Nomad

Gossamer Gear | Jun 03, 2011
Every chance we get, Gossamer loves to promote our Trail Ambassadors trips. One of our T.A.'s, Nimblewill Nomad, is j...
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