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Tag: Gear Explained
Hiking with GR2 and Brick Bag Attached
In the design process for Brick Bag, we ensured was that it would securely attach, with no flopping around, to the side buckles on GR2. When hiking or just walking around with a rucksack, the preferred technique is to keep heavier items closer to your spine. This allows for better weight distribution through your shoulders …
Brick Bag Explained
Brick Bag was born of necessity. Everyone who takes a GORUCK Challenge brings bricks to stuff in their ruck. Bricks are highly abrasive, and when they’re left to swim around, they tear holes in the Cordura. Even 1000 Denier Cordura, the best military-grade material for the job. We’ve tried all sorts of construction techniques. No …
Radio Ruck
Radio Ruck, pictured here with Java in the summer of 2009 in the great Southern town of Oxford, Mississippi, has been on our shelves far too long. We thought way back when that it was better to have the Echo be much smaller than GR1, which it is. The Radio Ruck seemed too close to GR1 at the time, but we’ve gotten a lot of requests for something a little smaller than GR1 and bigger than the Echo, so here is it, the Radio Ruck.
GORUCK Custom Gear: GR1 Bionic
Ten years into two wars, there is more reason than ever to focus on a functional bionic limb. A team of engineers at West Point was tasked with designing and building a powered prosthetic (aka bionic) limb to allow below-the-knee amputees to run and walk more easily than they would with a conventional prosthetic. Working …
GR2 Travels Explained By Jason
GR2 travels really, really well. I’m no stranger to the austere, the posh, or the grind of getting to both, but no matter where I’m going I want to get there with as little hassle as possible, find a place to set my bag down and then find an adventure or two. I hate the traveling part of travel anymore: the lines, the baggage check, separating out my laptop, stripping down at security. When we were designing GR2, our goal was to create and simplify the one travel bag we wanted to take with us anywhere. So that’s what we did.