Alaska Gear Company designs and field-tests extreme-cold equipment from Fairbanks. Not a brand inspired by Alaska — a brand from it.
We started because the gear sold to Alaskans wasn't designed for Alaska. Boots made in temperate factories, tents tested in summer, "extreme cold" rated to a comfortable −10°F.
So we built our own. Bunny boots sourced from the original mil-spec tooling. Hot tents from the same canvas mills the Iditarod relies on. Freight sleds molded from polyethylene that won't crack at −60.
Every product is tested by people whose lives depend on it — bush pilots, guides, trappers, search-and-rescue volunteers. If they don't carry it, we don't sell it.
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