Pike Trail Ultralight Compact Outdoor Camping Tailgate Festival Beach Chair
Pike Trail Water Resistance Seamless Gloves
Pike Trail Carbon Fiber Trekking Poles – Lightweight, Adjustable Hiking Poles for Every Adventure
Extra Thick and Wear Resisting Rubber Tips for Trekking Poles, Hiking Sticks, Hiking Poles and Nordic Walking Poles
Pike Trail Mid Length Gaiters Small/Medium Adjustable Fit
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To create bulletproof handcrafted outdoor gear responsibly. Bringing back USA manufacturing jobs by employing seamstress artisans in our local community of Columbia, MO.
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Stephanie Lindhjem
Perfect for traveling. I purchased this chair to take on a beach vacation. I needed it to fit into a backpack, and this chair does that perfectly. Easy to set up and take apart, comfortable, and sturdy.
Mike
They Work as Advertised! A friend lent these to me for a trip I took through Death Valley. Unfortunately as I was jogging up the trail, a rattler was just behind a rock where I couldn't see it. It lunged as I came upon it, bit into the gaiter and its fangs got stuck. As it was squirming, I pulled out my knife that I always have holstered on my thigh pack. I grabbed it by the tail and cut off it's head. Crazy experience. So glad I had these!
Peter Stoll
Amazing gaiters with unique design. These are the easiest gaiters to put on and best protection I have experienced. Lightweight, waterproof and easy to pack with you. Quality stainless fasteners, heavy duty velcro to secure leg wrap and lightweight. highly recommend!!
Verified Amazon Customer
They worked in a downpour after my real socks got soaked. I took these along on a trip bc my barefoot shoes aren't waterproof at all. Sure enough, I got caught in a downpour--my socks soaked--I swapped to these and they kept my feet dry the rest of the day. Well worth the price to have dry feet!
Chrissi Deutsch
I got these for some Fl hiking 🥾. I’ve been thinking about getting a pair when I saw these advertised on FB. [I] got them...[and] super pleased with the result. Easy to put on, stayed in place & kept my shoes sand free. Really like that they are easy to take on & off because we also have mud 😅
Verified Amazon Customer
Good quality. Nicely made double sheet for sleeping bag. However, I was so impressed with the quality, I actually bought a second set for my full size bed at home. These sheets are well sown, using quality material and zippers.
Pike Trail Ultralight Compact Outdoor Camping Tailgate Festival Beach Chair
Pike Trail Carbon Fiber Trekking Poles – Lightweight, Adjustable Hiking Poles for Every Adventure
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The Gear That Comes Home Muddy, Wet, and In One Piece
Some gear looks good in the store. It catches the light just right. The zippers glide smoothly. The fabric feels like it was engineered on another planet. Then you take it outside. One morning wading through a dew-soaked Missouri field. One afternoon on a ridgeline where the trail disappears into loose shale. One river crossing where the current is higher than expected and the footing is exactly as unreliable as it looks. That's the test that matters — and it has nothing to do with how a product looks under fluorescent light. At Pike Trail, we build gear for the test, not the shelf. We're based in Columbia, Missouri, and everything we make is handcrafted by skilled seamstress artisans right here in our community. Our mission isn't complicated: bulletproof outdoor gear that earns its place in your pack, every single time you head out. Here's what that looks like in the wild. Snake Country, Dense Brush, and the Case for Real Leg Protection The Ozarks don't mess around in late spring. Cottonmouths work the rocky creek banks. Timber rattlers favor the same south-facing limestone ledges that make for the best views. And if you're hunting mushrooms, foraging ramps, or tracking whitetail sign through the thick stuff, you're on their turf. We hear from a lot of Pike Trail customers who bought our snake gaiters after a close call. The honest ones admit they spent years in the field without any leg protection, figuring they were alert enough to make up the difference. They weren't wrong — most of the time. But "most of the time" has a way of not being enough. Our snake gaiters wrap your lower leg in reinforced fabric engineered to absorb and deflect a strike before it reaches skin. They're adjustable, lightweight, and they go on fast — which matters when you're gearing up in the dark at the trailhead. They've been through swampy bottomland in Mississippi, prickly ash thickets in Missouri, and palmetto scrub in Florida. They come back the same way they went in: intact. One customer put it plainly in a review: the gaiters didn't just protect his legs — they stopped him from second-guessing every step in thick cover. That's not a small thing. When you're not managing fear, you're hunting better, moving quieter, and staying out longer. "These are the easiest gaiters to put on and best protection I've experienced. Lightweight, waterproof, and easy to pack. Quality stainless fasteners, heavy-duty velcro — highly recommend." — Verified Pike Trail Customer Trekking Poles Built for the Miles That Break Cheaper Poles Carbon fiber is an interesting material. It's light, it's stiff, and in the right application it makes gear feel like it was made for exactly this purpose. In the wrong application — the wrong wall thickness, the wrong layup, the wrong collar design — it becomes expensive confetti on a rocky descent. Pike Trail's carbon fiber trekking poles are 7.15 ounces each. That's not a rounding error — that's genuinely light. They extend from 24 to 54 inches, lock where you set them, and don't creep down under load, which matters more than most people realize until they've had a pole collapse mid-step on a slippery root. We designed these for the long days: the backpacking trips where your feet are talking to you by mile 12, the late-season elk hunts where you're covering vertical miles before first light, the PCT section hikes where your pack is heavy and your knees are keeping track. They've proven themselves in those conditions. They come home with scrapes on the tips and mud in the baskets. The poles themselves are fine. Use them for stream crossings. For setting up a tarp shelter when the weather turns. For reaching that tricky hold on a scramble. They're not decorative — they're tools. A Blanket That Fits in Your Pocket. Seriously. We get that this sounds like marketing copy. "Pocket blanket" sounds like the kind of thing you'd find in an airport gift shop next to the neck pillows. It isn't. The Pike Trail Pocket Blanket packs down smaller than a water bottle and opens up large enough to actually sit on, shelter under, or throw over a muddy tailgate. It's waterproof on the bottom, comfortable on top, and it dries in minutes. We've seen it used as a ground tarp on a river sandbar lunch break. As a wind barrier rigged to trekking poles on an exposed ridgeline. As a quick cover for a truck bed full of harvested chanterelles on the way home from a morning forage. As a festival groundsheet for three people and their gear at an outdoor concert. The best gear adapts to the moment. The pocket blanket is one of the most-used things in the pack of people who own it, and it consistently surprises people who expected it to feel like a gimmick. Made in Columbia, Missouri. By Hand. On Purpose. This is the part of the story that matters to us more than anything else we make. A lot of outdoor gear is made in the same factories, with the same materials, by the same overseas contractors — the only difference is the logo on the label. We understand why. The economics are brutal and the pressure to compete on price is real. We went a different direction. Our trail gaiters are cut and sewn by skilled artisans here in Columbia, Missouri. These are experienced craftspeople who take genuine pride in the work — you can see it in the stitching, feel it in the fasteners, notice it in the little details that most manufacturers skip because no one will check. Building here costs more. Lead times are longer. We can't scale as fast as a company running production overseas. We've accepted all of that. What we get in return: gear that is genuinely built right. A community that's stronger because skilled manufacturing jobs exist here. A supply chain we can actually see and trust. And a story we can tell honestly — because it's true. When you buy Pike Trail gear, you're not just buying a product. You're backing a different way of doing this. What "Bulletproof" Actually Means We use that word deliberately. Bulletproof doesn't mean indestructible — it means it holds up when everything is going wrong at once. When it's raining sideways and you've been out for eight hours and the trail is a mess and you just need your gear to keep doing its job. That's the standard we build to. Not the showroom. Not the Instagram photo. The eighth hour. The unexpected river crossing. The predawn hike in when you can't see your feet. Our gear is built by people who care about it, tested by people who actually use it, and designed to be the last thing you have to think about when the conditions get interesting. That's the whole point. Ready to gear up? If you're heading into the field this season — whether that's hunting, hiking, foraging, or just spending serious time outside — start with gear that's been through it. • Shop Pike Trail Snake Gaiters → piketrail.com/gaiters • Shop Carbon Fiber Trekking Poles → piketrail.com/trekking-poles • Shop the Full Pike Trail Collection → piketrail.com Questions? We're in Columbia, Missouri. Real people, real answers. Reach us anytime at piketrail.com.
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Spring has sprung and with it comes beauty and snakes
"A friend lent these to me for a trip I took through Death Valley. Unfortunately as I was jogging up the trail, a rattler was just behind a rock where I couldn’t see it. It lunged as I came up on it, bit into the gaiter and it’s fangs got stuck. As it was squirming, I pulled out my knife that I always have holstered on my thigh pack. I grabbed it by the tail and cut off it’s head. Crazy experience. So glad I had these!"
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7 Hidden Southern Hiking Trails With Epic Views and No Crowds
Discover 7 lesser-known southern USA hiking trails with stunning views and almost no crowds. From Alabama's Sipsey Wilderness to Georgia's Cohutta, these hidden gems pass through real snake country — here's how to gear up with Pike Trail snake gaiters, trekking poles, and packable gear to wander more and worry less.
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