This year, The Big Gear Show 2024 collaborated with the Outside Festival. It occurred at Civic Center Park in Denver, Colorado, between May 31st and June 2nd. This is the fourth iteration of the the BGS, the first two being held at Deer Valley Resort and the last at the Denver Convention Center.
RecPak
RecPak saves you weight, space, and time in any environment.
RecPak is a complete 700-calorie meal designed to keep you powered up while saving space and weight. Developed by top sports dietitians, our lightweight pouches provide balanced nutrition to sustain your endurance efforts. RecPak fits easily in a jersey pocket, feed bag, or pack, so you can fuel on the go without slowing down.
Their mission came from hardened lessons in the Marine Corps and backcountry guiding expeditions. They wanted to help people perform at their best, whether on the frontline, fire, or fall lines.
RecPak’s powder meal is optimized for the outdoor enthusiasts:
- 700 nutrient-dense calories to keep you going strong
- 42g of muscle-supporting protein from whey, casein, and collagen
- Balanced macros and essential vitamins and minerals
- Designed for easy absorption and digestive tolerance
- Convenient and easy to use – just add water, shake, and drink
Oso Meals
Wildly Authentic Latin Backcountry Meals
Oso Meals took their abuelita’s recipes from Michoacán and transformed her authentic Mexican flavors into delicious freeze-dried meals for the backcountry. The spice of traditional posole, huevos rancheros, and enchiladas are now available wherever your adventure takes you!
With a long shelf life and whole ingredients, their meals are perfect for backpacking, camping, overlanding, bike trips, rafting, or the ski lot!
Black, Indigenous, and Immigrant Americans have faced cultural and institutional barriers to participation in outdoor recreation. Despite making up 40% of the country, they represent less than 15% of public land users. In addition to making delicious and authentic meals for everyone, they donate a portion of every meal sold to fueling BIPOC adventurers.
Good Detour
Good Detour feeds nourishing vegetarian food inspired by South Asian flavors to all outdoorsy taste hounds.
Good Detour makes the great outdoors accessible and enjoyable for all, regardless of dietary preferences or cultural backgrounds. Its founders, who have roots in the Indian diaspora, have experienced firsthand the challenge of finding suitable meals during outdoor adventures. This led them to create a solution that caters not only to South Asians but also to vegetarians, vegans, and anyone looking for a delicious alternative to typical outdoor fare.
Their journey began with personal experiences of feeling left out due to the lack of appropriate food options on camping trips and family excursions. Inspired by these challenges, they turned to their heritage—drawing on the rich flavors and traditional recipes handed down through generations. Their meals are crafted to offer nourishment and comfort, combining the authenticity of home-cooked South Asian food with the practical needs of outdoor enthusiasts.
They have you covered from breakfast to dinner and even dessert.
Breakfast – These are all the staple breakfast recipes, but you can eat them anytime.
- Paneer Scramble
- Idli Scramble
Dinner—At the end of a long day of activities, grab a well-balanced meal. Indulge in some traditional recipes and some inspired by the wide world of food!
- Five Lentil Dal
- Rajma Rice
- Yogurt Rice
- Quinoa Pulao
Dessert – Now, you can also treat yourself to indulgent, creamy, sweet desserts in the outdoors!
- Moong Dal Halwa
- Gajar Ka Halwa
Farm to Summit
Farm fresh, flavor-packed, sustainably produced and packaged, and working to reduce food waste within our system!
Farm to Summit makes flavor-packed meals in small batches using upcycled produce. It supports small-scale farming, gives back to its community, and reduces waste in its food system. They make various dehydrated meals, instant Latte mixes, and some Dehydrated Sriracha powder.
Farm to Summit was founded in 2021 by Jane and Louise Barden, a Durango-based couple passionate about adventure and sharing a love for farm-fresh and flavor-packed meals. Their backgrounds in farming, fine dining, and ecology combine to create a product that intends not only to shake up the way we eat in the backcountry but also to help mend the broken links in their food system. Farm to Summit is their vision for a viable future of food, a radical paradigm for our new era of sustainable consumption.
COBA
COBA reimagines our daily coffee and tea rituals into an easy, tasty experience on the go.
Coffee and tea are thousands of years old traditions. While they, too, enjoy the ritual of pulling a shot or foaming up milk for a latte, they wanted to create a new way to enjoy the delicious flavors of our favorite beverages—and the energy they give us.
On a two-month trip to South America, they immersed themselves in the trade, learning everything they could about what makes quality coffee. They also saw how climate change has affected the growers’ livelihoods there. They realized that the first part of creating a great coffee bar was ensuring we did right by the people at the beginning of the supply chain.
COBA Brew
Make a rich, deep, smooth cup of coffee in 3 seconds with COBA’s Coffee Concentrate. With their fair trade, organic coffee, you can have 15 Cups of coffee. It comes in Original, Vanilla, and Mint flavors.
I liked the Vanilla mixed with some Oat milk and sweetener.
COBA Bars
Their tea-flavored bars are made with natural ingredients. They come in four flavors: Espresso Bar, Chai Latte Bar, Matcha Latte Bar, and Hojicha Latte Bar.
A COBA bar is a perfectly dosed hit of caffeine that doesn’t make you jittery. It’s also convenient and has less impact on the environment than disposable cups. Bite into one wherever you need a little boost to enjoy your day.
My favorite bar was the Matcha Latte Bar. Yummy!
Colorado Freeze-Dried Candy by Mile-Hi Sweets and Treats
Mile-Hi Sweets and Treats freeze-dried candies are your favorite regular everyday candies that have undergone a transformative process, expanding them with a light and fluffy texture. The freeze-drying process intensifies the flavors. They are also much easier to eat for people with braces, dentures, etc. The machines that make the candy utilize a vacuum pump to help extract the water from the candy, causing it to puff up.
I tried their fluffy worms and Sour Taffy Clouds, which had an interesting texture and taste. Their candy types include Sweet, Sour, Spicy, Chocolate, Gummy, nutty, and Taffy. They’d be perfect for mountain bike rides, hikes, and bikepack trips.
Mile-Hi Sweets and Treats prides itself on providing a wide variety of different candies that are all “Fun and Fluffy.” They want you to have a fun and exciting experience every time you open a bag of their candy, so they only offer the best of the best.
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