The Four Criteria for Choosing a Gear at R E I

Just because R E I sell some gear that is lightweight and high performance does not mean that the lightest or most performant gear available in a given category is available at R E I. In many categories lighter and more performant options are going to be available elsewhere. For example, you can check out places like garage grown gear, feathered friends, hyper light, tarp tent, tursten gear. There's there's dozens and dozens of these small brands that do not distribute at RE I that have some very light, very high performance gear that you should consider as well.