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Check out the Best Whistler Hiking by Month for inspiration! We rent the best hiking and camping gear. Tents, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, stoves, packs, complete kits and more!
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Figure out the gear you would like and book through our reservation system. We will send you a confirmation of the booking and make sure we know where to deliver your gear for you when you get to Whistler. We have the largest inventory of high quality rental hiking and camping gear from Vancouver to Whistler. Our booking page is easy to use and our cancellation policy is amazing. Free cancellations anytime for any reason as long as you let us know more than 24 hours before delivery. If you need to change your delivery or pick up time or location, we don't mind.
We deliver right to your door anywhere in Whistler and to all Garibaldi Park trailheads except Diamond Head in Squamish. We will be waiting for you at the trailhead when you arrive or if you are already in Whistler at a house, hotel, condo, etc we will deliver and pick up right to your door. We are happy to deliver to your hotel's Front Desk or Bell Desk before your arrival to make your vacation even more worry free! If you would like the gear delivered the day before so you can pack and prepare, let us know when you book and we will make it happen! Prefer to pick up? We have a 24 hour pick up and drop off location 3 minutes from Whistler Village!
Hike into paradise and camp in beautiful Whistler and incredible Garibaldi Park. With the best quality and highest rated hiking gear money can buy, you will have the trip of a lifetime. We do all the work and you have all the fun! We rent the best quality and highest rated gear on the market. MSR tents, Osprey backpacks, MSR WindBurner Stove Systems, Rab Ascent 700 sleeping bags, Therm-a-Rest XTherm MAX sleeping pads, MSR Evo Ascent snowshoes and more. We also rent complete hiking gear kits. We can equip one person, couples or large groups with everything you need except food and water! We are proud to be Whistler's best source for rental hiking gear. We have the best gear, the best prices and best service!
When you return from your hike, let us know where and when you'd like us to drop by and pick up the gear. Staying at a hotel? Leave the gear with the Bell Desk or Front Desk. Living in Whistler or staying in an AirBnB, just leave the gear outside your door and text us. We will pick it up and you don't need to wait around. We deliver it to you perfectly clean and don't mind if you return it a mess. We have a precise and methodical cleaning and maintenance process and we go to great lengths to ensure the gear you get is like new. Though we don't have a retail location in Whistler, we do have a convenient 24 hour pick up and drop off location near Whistler Village!
A: Your clothes, food and water. We have thought of everything for you so you don't have to worry about anything but having the time of your life! Make sure you bring warm clothes for the cool alpine weather and a water bottle to fill from the glacier fed streams!
A: Our gear is specially selected from the highest rated, best quality and newest gear on the market. The difference between a cheap backpack and our backpacks is astounding. Your comfort and enjoyment are drastically reduced by cheap, old and worn gear. Our gear is the best of the best on the market!
A: We are very forgiving on reasonable damage and wear and tear, however beyond that we will charge for replacement cost or repair cost. Our gear is very durable and high quality, so with normal use and care it is very difficult to damage. Just let us know what happened and can likely sort it out with a minimum cost.
A: We deliver anytime and anywhere in Whistler. In most cases we can drop off your gear to your hotel the night before you go so you can play with and pack your gear beforehand. If you prefer, we also have a pick up and drop off location just down from Whistler Village, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Just let us know when you reserve and we will have it there ready for pick up as requested.
A: Hey Abraham, great to hear from you in Mexico! April and often May are difficult times to access Black Tusk due to winter snow. Not only can the snow slow your progress and necessitate snowshoes, but it also obscures the trail. You can easily get lost and head off into the woods in the wrong direction. It is very frustrating to be on a hard hike and realize you have just hiked 10 minutes in the wrong direction!
So, if I were hiking to Black Tusk in April or May as a day trip, I would leave very early in the morning to make the most of the daylight. I'd try to be at the trailhead before 8am. Depending on the rate of snowmelt, you may not even be able to park at the trailhead and instead be parking 1 kilometre down the road. Hopefully you will find the snowline much higher, be able to park at the trailhead and be hiking on dirt, instead of snow for about 4 kilomtres. If you don't have snowshoes the snow you encounter will often be crusty on top and soft underneath. This means you walk on top for a few steps then one foot plunges through up to your knees. That's one annoyance you always have to prepare for in the spring. I would anticipate a relatively easy hike for the first 4-5 kilometres, then some tougher hiking with snowshoes for a couple kilometres to Taylor Meadows or Garibaldi Lake. From Taylor Meadows the hike is fairly flat, and on a sunny day extraordinarily beautiful with pristine forest all around and nothing but sunny, snowy mountain tops in all directions! And best of all, Black Tusk looms in the near distance.
A: We include user guides to any tricky-to-use gear. For example, when you open our compact stove system you will see the very detailed instruction for use. When you open your tent, you will see a how-to guide immediately. If you would like a preview of our gear check out theese Youtube links for user reviews and get excited!