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Gossamer Gear
Gossamer Gear, formerly GVP Gear, is the serendipitous brainchild of Glen Van Peski, a consulting civil engineer in Carlsbad, California. Glen Van Peski had done some backpacking as a youth, but didn't get involved again until his eldest son Brian joined the Boy Scouts. Glen went down to the local REI and loaded up on the standard backpacking gear. After a year or two of backpacking with the troop, his friend Read Miller, then the Scoutmaster, read Ray Jardine's book on ultralight backpacking, and started to implement some of the ideas. With Read's example, Glen also started to pare down his pack weight. He figured out fairly quickly that a pack weighing seven pounds empty represented a great opportunity to lighten up. Glen made his first pack, dubbed the "G1" and began selling them to others. A few years later the name of the company was changed to Gossamer Gear, and the selection of products expanded.
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