Picnicking, Camping & Outdoor

Attack of the Shrooms! Quick—everybody take cover! It's the attack of the giant, mushroom-shaped, color-changing landscape lights! Don’t kid yourself into thinking you won’t have to run very far because their batteries will run...

MYLAR WARMTH They have the look of something designed for the space program. They're mylar, a paper-thin shiny metallic sheet, that comes in handy when your car breaks down in winter, or when you're separated from your climbing...

Put your silverware on your belt. This 4-1/4" camping implement separates into a fold-out fork and spoon, and the spoon has a fold-out knife at the other end so you can use it with the fork to cut your pork chops. Also includes a corkscrew (we recommend...

They don’t give them away in bars anymore, so you’d better buy this Matchstick Fire Starter. Has a 1-1/2" x 1-1/8" x 3/8" flint housing and a 1” striker with a small cotton wick around the end. Fill it with a little lighter fluid and...

Survival In The Woods There won’t be any flicked corn niblets where you’re going, but you still get to take a spork with you. Our black heavy duty Tactical Spork from Maxam® measures 7-9/16" long with a black stainless steel knife...

Water Water Everywhere What half respecting camper or prepper would ever be without a collapsible water carrier. How about none of them! This BPA, Phthalate free plastic water carrier is perfect for any job, or jobsite, or camping site, or bunker, or...

You Can’t Slam This Screen Door But it will still keep the flying critters out of your kitchen. This hanging screen is made of a plastic fabric mesh and will fit doorways up to 35” x 82”, but works best in slightly narrower ones to...

This is a shockingly bright work light, as we can attest after holding it next to our eyes while groping for the “try me” button. The 3-Watt COB LED from i-Zoom® provides 250 lumens of bright white light, which lasts 5 hours and covers a...

Before fishing got all modern with high-tech reels and rods, and lines and hooks, our ancestors caught seafood dinners with pointy things. Return to those simpler days with this 9” Fishing Spear Head from Crate Club by Martin Brothers. Technically...

Newly manufactured P-38 Can Opener from the same folks who supply them to Uncle. It folds! into 1-1/2" x 5/8" flat piece which is easily carried and lost. Reportedly works much better than the Asian knockoffs for those who really want to gain entry to...

Call us crazy but we love coming home from the wilderness alive. This is why we always carry a survival whistle like this one. It’s safety orange, and 3” long with an 8" bungee lanyard. It’s also plastic with a dual chamber design and...

Daytime, too, or whenever you need to start a fire, especially outdoors. These pressed resinous-pine tinder sticks measure 4" long x 1/2" square, and our each is a box of a dozen. Marked as being from the “Survivor Series,” they’re...

The problem with wilderness? No mirrors. Next time you walk into the woods, or go on any outdoor adventure, take this shatterproof mirror with you. Made of stainless steel, it measures 3" x 4" with a hole for a lanyard. It’ll help you look pretty...

You will survive with this Survival Candle, a 3-wick burner made of soy and palm wax in a 3-1/8" dia 2-3/8" tin can with a lid. Rated to last up to 36 hours.

Surplus Alert! See below. Around here, folks play tennis indoors in the winter. It’s not our game, but we assume netters get all jazzed when they can finally hit outside again. Good weather brings bugs, which is why we love this classic 19”...

This idea is for the birds. Literally. A green/black plastic perch, dish, and dispenser that you can screw onto an inverted plastic pop bottle to convert it into a bird feeder. Obviously, the bottle should have been emptied of pop and filled with...

Go ahead. If you've got your glow-in-the-dark compass with you, you can find your way back without having to grope around trying to feel the moss on the north side of the trees. In brass, 2" dia x 1/2" thick, with a bezel with 2-degree increments and a...

Stop That Flapping! Every time your tarp flaps, it’s a cry for help. The solution is this (4)-pack of classic, adjustable tarp clips. Great for tarps with no holes, or tarps whose holes have gone away. Non-slip grips have a thumbscrew for easy jaw...

RECHARGEABLE ZAPPING Bug haters and tech geeks, here’s your dream gadget—a rechargeable, solar, motion-activated, LED-technology bug zapper! Measures 5" x 6" x 2" with all the bells and whistles a bug-free Surpie enjoys. Charges in the day...

You can only carry so much bottled water in the woods. Campers and preppers alike will want this water purification tube, eminently backpackable at 9" long x 1" dia x an ultralight (2) ounces. Called the Water Washer, its microfiltration membrane is good...

This hand-held LED lantern is nothing like the hand-held lantern in the gatefold of your vintage Led Zeppelin IV album cover, and that’s good because this one doesn’t require oil and a wick. It’s also waterproof up to 1m and IPX7-rated...

Willie Mosconi’s Walking Stick? If you fly to where you hike, you absolutely need this three-piece bianbai wood walking stick. Like in portable pool cues, the pieces are threaded together via steel inserts. Measures 55” long assembled, with a...

Once upon a time, tweeting is what birds did, and also what people calling birds did. Return with us now to those trilling days of yesteryear with this little hand-held Audubon bird call. Measures 2-1/4" long with a cast-aluminum shaft inside a birch...

North, South, East and West (plus some others) are all included in this sturdy, stainless-steel compass featuring a glow-in-the-dark dial and degree markings around the face. Measures 2-1/2” dia with a 1-1/2” dia face and a glass cover...

How to shoot an azimuth for fun and profit: Get the ultimate direction finder, a lensatic compass. It has a 2-1/8" dia face marked in 5-degree increments, a 1/4" dia sight lens, 9/16" dia bubble level, and a 1-1/2" sight with crosshairs. Measures 3-1/4"...

An exhausted physicist. Also this 3-1/4" dia camping lantern. Stands 5” tall with fold-down handles, but pull up those handles and reveal the super-bright, a whopping 600 lumen COB LED light inside. Turns on when you open it, and has a small...

Grab your fuel pellets and stick them in your backpack with this tiny folding Commando Cooker from Rothco®, the ultra-light emergency/camping stove you've surely seen elsewhere. Measures 4-7/8" x 3-5/8" x 1" closed and 4-1/2" x 3-5/8" x 2-5/8" when...

Go ahead and carry this cooler into a departmental meeting before you head out on Friday—we cleared it with your boss. She’s the only one who’ll know it’s packed with brewskis because it looks like a sophisticated hardshell laptop...

Don’t enter the woods, jungle, desert or open highway without this beastly (16)-piece, folding multitool, which includes an extendable tactical shovel and axe with hex wrenches in both blades, a hammer, knife, saw, harpoon, nail puller, Phillips...

To Keep it Dry, or Not to Keep It Dry The original sad sack was a wet sack, which is why someone invented the dry sack, which has never made anyone sad. This 5.8-liter sack from the SE Survivor Series is water-resistant, made of 210T Terelyne material,...

C'mon baby, light someone's fire with this magnesium and flint fire-starter kit. The 3" steel hack-saw-type blade and a 3-1/8" x 3/8" x 1-1/8" hunk of magnesium, with a rod of flint embedded in one long side, are on a keychain for carrying but are easily...

Don't Be Blinded by Science Introducing the brand new Solar Snap- The Eclipse App There has never been an easy way to take pictures of an eclipse with your phone. Until now! The Solar Snap Eclipse App is an American Paper Optics exclusive that was...

For all off you hikers, bikers, skiers, walkers, joggers, electricians, climbers, and outdoor (or indoor) enthusiasts what we have here is a 2-pack of instant hand warmers. Scouts love'em both big and small. Buy them in bunches!

Keep Your Fire Dry Fire doesn’t like water, and neither do matches, which is why we love this bright orange 3-in-1 waterproof Match Container from the SE® Survival Series™. Looks like just a plastic tube with ridges on the cap and body...

Not when you’ve got this puppy at your side. Our latest and greatest COB LED flashlight is 7" long, rated up to 2,000 lumens with a visible distance of 100 meters. Has three modes—max, low, and strobe—and is focusable, but the best part...

Orienteerer alert. This compass has (3) scales and a 4X magnifier. Can be used to read topographical and tourist maps, and to determine azimuthal locations. Perfect for use with overhead projectors. The 2” dia compass is graduated from 0-360...

And now two heads can be brighter with this (2)-pack of rechargeable headlamps. Settings for 120 and 350 lumens in low spot and flood beam modes. Has a head strap with a snap-in mount for the light so it can be removed to charge via a Micro-USB jack...

Made for the clumsy and myopic, which is most of us, this 5-draw telescoping magnetic pick-up tool has a ring magnet embedded in a 3-LED flashlight, and both are on the end of a little gooseneck. This means you can see things you dropped and, if they're...

You don't have to smell like a polecat just because you're camping. Our 5-gallon PVC solar shower bag measures 23" x 16" with an in-line valve, 25" hose, 1-1/2" shower head and mounting hook. Mfr says 2 hours in the sun on a 70-degree day gets you...

Lantern Of Love That special someone might light up your life but not your tent or trail, which is why you’ll want this 360º LED lantern, with (5) beam settings when you’re camping or hiking. Measures 4” dia x 7” tall,...