Entry 041 · Late autumn
High basin camp
Frost for four nights running. The prototype swag zipper iced shut twice, so we moved the storm flap, and it never happened again.
LEDGER PAGE 041 · LOT 000
Kettle & Ridge Supply Co. · Est. 2019
Gear that knows the country.
Small-batch camp gear from a two-shed workshop. Canvas, wool, steel and enamel, proven over logged nights out, sold through stockists who camp themselves.
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The range · four scenes
A campsite, walked through.
We don't sell categories. We kit out the four corners of a good camp. That is where you sleep and what you cook on, and then what carries it all in and what stands between you and the weather.
Scene 01 · Sleep
Cold ground, warm swag
Canvas swags and dense wool for frost mornings and early starts.
Sleep gear →
Scene 02 · Camp kitchen
Enamel over open flame
Kettles and mess kits that last longer than the truck they travel in.
Kitchen gear →Scene 03 · Carry
Thrown in trays, dragged over tailgates
Waxed duffels and pouches cut heavy on purpose.
Carry gear →Scene 04 · Shelter
Between you and the weather
Ridge tarps and camp furniture for the long sit.
Shelter gear →03
The benchmark
Ten years on every seam.
Every Kettle & Ridge piece is warranted for ten years, repair first, and that one guarantee is the whole pitch. If a seam lets go or a buckle cracks, or the wax gives out early, it comes back to the bench that made it.
1,142
Nights under test
312
Repairs, not replacements
10
Year guarantee, repair first
The ledger figures shown are samples. Counts are logged at the workshop and updated each season.
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Field notes
Tested where the map runs out.
Prototypes go out with the crew before they go anywhere near a shelf. They get nights rather than focus groups, frost mornings and sideways rain, and one kettle dropped down a scree slope and kept anyway.
FIELD COPYEntry 047 · First snow
Saddle below the ridge
Kettle No. 2 boiled fourteen times on one fuel bottle. The lid knob cracked in the cold. Now it's beech, not resin.
LEDGER PAGE 047 · LOT 000
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Trailhead index
Sold where you already shop.
There is no checkout here, on purpose. Kettle & Ridge sells through independent outfitters and camp stores that vouch for what they range. Find the nearest counter and go put your hands on it.
Regions of the index
- Mountain West · 14 stockists
- Pacific Coast · 11 stockists
- High Plains · 8 stockists
- Northeast · 9 stockists
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For retailers
Stock the shelf. Talk wholesale.
The range is tight and it turns, with eight SKUs, keystone-friendly margins, a rep who answers, and POS cards that don't look like clip art. Request the current line sheet and we'll come back within two working days.
- Eight SKUs, seasonal runs, one-line email reorders
- POS cards, staff one-pagers and repair backup included
- Ten-year guarantee handled by us, never by your counter
The camp is waiting.
Pick the counter nearest your patch of country. Serial-numbered runs land with stockists first, and the good sizes go early.