Rent Camping Gear for Free From the Alite Ranger Station

If you’ve ever been discouraged from going on an adventure due to lacking the necessary and sometimes expensive gear, Alite Gear has a great initiative for you. The outdoor brand set up its Ranger Station more than a year ago, allowing people to “rent” camping gear for the weekend.

The Ranger Station offers sets of camping gear which you can take out for the weekend at no cost; just leave your credit card as a deposit in case of any damage. Tae Kim, the founder of Alite, was inspired to create the program after finding a lending library for power tools near his home.

“If people can borrow tools, try them out and use them for various work projects on a free rental basis … why the heck can’t we do it for camping gear,” he says.

At the moment there are three camping packs available from the Ranger Station: a beginner’s car camping kit, an intermediate kit suitable for hiking and a newly introduced advanced backpacking kit. Each kit contains all of the necessary items for campers to enjoy a weekend in the wild, encouraging more people to get out and enjoy the great outdoors.

Simply visit the Alite website in order to find out more and reserve a kit. At the moment the gear is only available at the Alite store in downtown San Francisco, but it is a great idea which Alite plans to take to other cities next year.