The second part of my interview with Ron Moak from Six Moon Designs, where we continue our discussion regarding the current state and future of the lightweight and the ultra-light market.
Is the future more about education, rather than gear for gears sake? Is it time to drop the definitions between ultralight and just being lighter generally?
How have consumer shopping habits changed, does the internet make research easier, or does it give people too many choices? Is there too much politics in the whole lightweight movement, shouldn’t we just be getting out there and doing?
And finally, what does Ron have in his rucksack and what did he actually pay for?
Others mentioned on the podcast who have discussed and debated the future of Ultralight Gear following the original “Cottage Stagnation & Recent Gems” post on backpackinglight.com by Ryan Jordan;
Pages generated on backpackinglight.com forum
The 7 page reply from Ron Moak – Six Moon Designs
Hiking In Finland Blog – Ultralight is not dead
Summit and Valley – Martin Rye Blog
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Two points ring true in this podcast.
1) The no brainer sale of the $125 tent.
It is actually “EXPERIENCE rather than education. The experience of the tent was all the education needed to purchase and probably use it successfully.
2) Scales is stores
There needs to 5 scales set up with mirrors on three sides. The buyer gets set up and is allow to EXPERIENCE THE PACK IN WILDERNESS for a few hours or a day or two. That’s the “education” as the host framed the interview after the story.
I haven’t found any retailers that have a “wilderness yard out back” to rent or loan their gear and give people the”EXPERIENCE/education. In the yard there would be 20 campers all with different varieties of gear and the level of “EXPERIENCE/education would likely be astronomically sufficient to reach the people as Ron has pointed out.
I got this “EXPERIENCE/education in just two outings with the Sierra Club’s Wilderness Travel Course in West Los Angeles. But this was framed within a 10 week course and four groups of 20 people.