Luke Cuenco 01.05.26
Rumpl’s Artist Division (RAD) collaborations have at all times walked the road between purposeful gear and sometimes wall-worthy artwork, and the brand new Woosah assortment could be top-of-the-line examples but. For this current collaboration, “Defend the Porkies”, Rumpl teamed up with Grand Rapids–based mostly artist Rae Lang of Woosah Outfitters, whose woodblock-inspired art work is impressed by and based mostly within the awe of untamed locations. The design on this assortment particularly pulls from the Porcupine Mountains of Northwestern Michigan, which options layered ridgelines, forests, and, after all, tons of wildlife (form of jogs my memory of the Pacific Northwest). Rumpl and Woosah have teamed up and poured all of their onerous work into this Camp Pillow/Fleece Blanket pair we’ll be reviewing as we speak. So let’s get proper to it and see what’s on supply.
Evaluations on AllOutdoor
AllOutdoor Assessment: Rumpl x Woosah Camp Pillow & Fleece Blanket
I’ve been working each items this winter in an iKamper Skycamp 3.0 rooftop tent and in addition to my one-person summer season tent, together with just a few nights within the Oregon desert the place temps dipped into the low teenagers. I used to be blissful to have the ability to get each samples early sufficient within the season to check them in a wide range of places – largely for his or her consolation but in addition to see how properly these expensive objects maintain as much as greater than only a weekend or two of use.
Design, Artwork, and Function
Rumpl’s stuff has at all times been extra than simply utilitarian. So when you’re into USGI Bivy luggage or outdated army surplus gear, which doesn’t precisely have camp attraction, some Rumpl designs may throw you for a loop. Out of the bag, the Rae Lang / Woosah print is clearly the very first thing that hits you. It appears much less like a generic sample and extra like somebody wrapped a woodblock print round your camp gear, which is strictly what Rae was going for. The colours are fairly daring and positively stand out from the remainder of your tenting gear. Nevertheless, on the identical time, the colours aren’t so loud that they really feel gimmicky. It’s the form of package you don’t thoughts leaving on the sofa at house between journeys, which is strictly what I’ve been doing. (this helps air them out)
Each the camp pillow and fleece blanket really feel extra like “out of doors life-style” gear than purely tenting gear. So when you occur to depart these things mendacity round the home, you in all probability gained’t get any complaints; actually, you may discover that your Fleece Blanket may go lacking in case your spouse or girlfriend occurs to search out it. That’s not a nasty factor in my ebook. If something, it’s a plus for the form of tenting and road-tripping or “night time out” the place appearances may matter far more than shaving ounces out of your package.
Utilizing the Pillow & the Blanket
Blanket
We’ll kick the “official” a part of the overview off with the Blanket, which I believe might be the extra vital of the 2 for most individuals. One of many small however sensible options on the blanket is the set of snaps alongside the sting. They do a few issues rather well and can in all probability make your life a bit simpler when you’re open air away from house. Snapped up, the blanket stays neatly folded for transport or storage as an alternative of exploding throughout your automotive or tent, and helps with folding.
Round camp, nevertheless, you should use the snaps to show the blanket right into a wearable cape or wrap. This feels like one thing a toddler would do till you’re attempting to cook dinner dinner, stoke a hearth, or wander round camp within the wind with out continually readjusting a unfastened blanket. There are two whole snaps, and actually just one set of snaps is required if you wish to cape your self up both lengthwise or widthwise.
In cape mode, it really works surprisingly properly. You may snap it round your shoulders and hold your palms free, successfully turning it right into a makeshift insulated scarf or poncho. On these chilly desert evenings, I would use the blanket that got here in helpful, bundling up within the fleece facet by the fireplace, including simply sufficient additional insulation to make lingering exterior really satisfying. Nevertheless, the fleece was so environment friendly at trapping air that it nearly made issues too heat.
The fleece, which additionally makes up the opposite facet of the pillow, feels extra like a smooth home throw than scratchy technical fleece, so that you don’t thoughts carrying it straight in opposition to a T-shirt or base layer. It’s the form of piece that can see simply as a lot use in your sofa or entrance porch because it does at a campsite, and I’ve discovered myself utilizing each the throw and the pillow at house due to how good they’re.
Camp Pillow
The matching camp pillow is available in at $59.95, placing it on the premium finish of camp pillows, but it surely delivers on consolation. Within the Skycamp 3.0 it offered a pleasant stability between assist and squish, with sufficient loft to maintain my head off the mattress with out collapsing flat by morning. It feels nearer to a small, smooth house pillow than a crinkly inflatable.
Cloth-wise, it’s quiet and comfy in opposition to naked pores and skin. No obnoxious plastic crunching each time you progress. It stays put fairly properly on the iKamper mattress and within the tent, as an alternative of sliding in all places. Of their accompanying stuff sacks, the pillow and the blanket could be compressed a tiny bit, however they’ll nonetheless take up much more house than your super-efficient and possibly loud tenting blanket, and can 100% take up far more house than any uncomfortable air-filled camp pillow. I believe what’s most vital right here is that the filler and the firmness of the pillow beat any sort of air-filled pillow bar none.
In case you’ve obtained entry to a automobile, as I do, I believe the additional bulk these two items take up is completely affordable for automotive tenting, rooftop tent setups, and weekend journeys the place you gained’t be packing in or packing out. In case you’re a hardcore ounce-counter, yow will discover lighter, smaller choices, however most individuals doing automotive/truck/RTT tenting will fortunately commerce just a few additional grams for a lot better sleep. I imply, let’s be actual – I hold a cast-iron skillet in my truck, however you gained’t discover me taking that with me backcountry tenting. I’ll search consolation at any time when I can and at any time when it’s affordable.
Lengthy Time period/Exhausting Use
I believe that desert tenting is an efficient option to stress-test cloth in opposition to mud and grit. Up to now, each the blanket and pillow have held up properly. No apparent pilling, snags, or blown stitching after a number of journeys and loads of time being dragged out and in of tents. The Woosah print has stayed sharp and hasn’t noticeably light after regular use and cleanup, and doesn’t appear to carry onto moisture generated by you in a single day or get soaked simply in humid or misty situations.
The outer cloth on the blanket sheds gentle grime and mud properly sufficient, and only a fast shake will knock off gentle mud, ash, or plant particles that has made its approach on there. Nevertheless, I’d be aware of how shut you get both of this stuff to warmth sources, as they positively aren’t burn-proof and even burn-resistant. The fleece inside will decide up the occasional pet hair or particles, as any fleece does, but it surely hasn’t been a problem to date.
Each the camp pillow and the fleece blanket are a lot much less best when you’re attempting to prioritize for weight and pack quantity above all else. You’re paying a small premium for the collab and the artwork, and also you’re getting consolation, versatility, and magnificence in return as an alternative of simply uncooked efficiency, however when you’re in want of that uncooked efficiency, Rumpl gives a ton of different merchandise that serve that precise objective.
Repeated washings haven’t appeared to decrease any of the “loft” that the blanket has, and I’ve but to try to clean the pillow. Total, I’m fairly happy that these two items alone ought to be capable to sustain with the remainder of my gear that I take advantage of for rooftop tent tenting, in addition to any conventional tent tenting I do year-round.
Remaining Ideas
Rumpl’s RAD Woosah collab is simply the kind of enjoyable and performance {that a} good camp soft-goods setup needs to be: legitimately helpful within the supposed situations, comfy sufficient to make use of at house, and handsome sufficient that you just really need it round. The fleece puffy blanket is a heat, that has served me properly in each a rooftop tent and a 1P tent, and the snaps-plus-cape mode makes me surprise if my different tenting blankets and even sleeping luggage don’t already do that. The camp pillow rounds issues out with actual consolation in a compact bundle and has 100% saved my neck from painful mornings or resorting to a pile of hoodies to relaxation my head on.
If I can sum it up merely, in case your tenting leans extra towards chilly nights, rooftop tents, and comfy tenting experiences slightly than ultralight marathon hikes, this Rumpl x Woosah pair earns an actual spot within the package, one at house in your favourite sofa, not simply on the gear shelf.
