Outdoor Equipment Manufacturers

Outdoor equipment is supplied through about 10 major stores in Australia, with the best selection all in one street in Melbourne. However, if you are researching brands, here are the websites, from across the world. All popular brands are shown without fear or favour - you decide! Those Astered* allow purchases over the Internet. ( In alphabetical order - updated 12 May 2007)

1. Airwalk* Snowboard Boots
2. Asolo Boots
3. Berghaus* packs
4. Bibler tents
5. Billabong - Outdoor Gear, mostly beach
6. Black Diamond climbing gear
7. Body Torque*- cycling gear
8. Bogong Equipment
9. Boreal Climbing ropes
10. Cam-Fis* - USA outdoor clothing
11. Camping Gaz - Stoves and Gas
12. Campmor* - USA outdoor gear
13. Carhatt* - Outdoor and Workwear USA
14. Cascade Designs Sleeping and sitting Mats
15. Coleman Stoves
16. Columbia Sportswear clothing
17. Douglas Gill* - Wet weather gear, mostly yachting
18. Edelrid Climbing ropes
19. Etrex GPS's from Garmin GME
20. Everwarm - NZ thermal underwear
21. Fairy Down sleeping bags
22. Garmont cross country ski boots
23. Gear Equipment* - Aus- of protective bags for sports goods
24. Gear Pro* - USA Retailer of many brands
25. GME EPIRBS
26. Helly Hansen* underwear, especially for canoeing, yachting
27. Highland Clothing Traditional Wool outdoor clothing - TAS.
28. Hi-tech footwear
29. Karrimor tents and packs
30. Kinetix Clothing
31. Koflach Boots
32. Leatherman tools and knives
33. LL Bean* - Huge Outdoor Outfitters, USA
34. Lowe Alpine packs
35. Macpac Packs, tents etc
36. Magellan GPS systems
37. Mag-lite torches
38. Mammut - climbing ropes etc
39. Merrell boots
40. Metolius rock climbing gear
41. Mont Adventure Equipment Clothing, tents, down gear.
42. Mountain Designs Aus* Big Mountain Gear, Expedition Kit
43. Mountain Equipment clothing, bags, tents etc - UK.
44. MSR Stoves, tents
45. Nalgene containers
46. No Fear - surf and bike clothing
47. Northern Lites - Snow shoes
48. Oilskin - Traditional outdoor Australian Oilskin clothing
49. One Planet
50. O'Neill - wetsuits
51. Osprey Packs
52. Paddy Pallin clothing, tents etc
53. Patagonia Equipment - USA climbing equipment
54. Petzl lights
55. Primus stoves and lamps
56. Princeton Tec - lights, head torches
57. REI* - USA Adventure Outfitter
58. Rockport footwear
59. Rocky Mountain Direct* - Canadian "everything" exporter
60. Rusty - Sports Clothing
61. Salewa climbing gear, tents
62. Salomon boots
63. Saltik climbing shoes
64. Scarpa boots
65. Sierra Designs tents
66. Sigg water bottles
67. Silva compasses and GPS
68. Singing Rock climbing gear
69. Snowdog - Belgium Polar Fleece
70. Snowgum clothing and scouting goods
71. Sorel Footwear - cold weather Canadian safety boots
72. SOS - backcountry ski clothing from Sweden
73. Spoon - Outdoor Watches
74. Spyder - The very best quality ski garments
75. Suunto compasses
76. Tatonka packs
77. Teva sandles
78. The North Face - US Big Mountain Climbing gear
79. Thule roof rack systems
80. Timberland footwear
81. Trangia Stoves - Swedish and English site together
82. Trigger Brothers - Aus snowboard & surf gear, webcams
83. Vans - Footwear for street and mountain biking.
84. Victorinox knives.
85. Wilderness Equipment
86. Wilderness Sports - Jindabyne XC and Mountain Skiing
87. Wilderness Wear clothing from Tasmania
88. Wild Country climbing cams.
89. Woolrich Inc* - original US natural fibre clothing.

 

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