Gobi Gear

Adventurers are supposed to love the thrills of Mother Nature, but the surprises should be in what lives over the next peak, not what’s in your pack. Chez Brungraber, founder of Gobi Gear, has always loved traveling and the outdoors. As a full-time professional botanist, in pursuit of a PhD in botany, she is constantly traveling to job sites around Southern California. Couple that with her leisure travel – trekking through Africa and Asia and hiking the great American West – and you have a woman who’s always on the go. On one particular trip – making 10 stops in 12 days and sharing a duffel bag with her husband – Chez experienced the typical frustration of a traveler who can’t find anything in her suitcase. How can you keep a pack organized efficiently, keep dirty clothes from clean, small items from large – without buying a whole new suitcase? Where’s the thrill in not being able to find a headlamp as night falls on Angel’s Landing in Zion, Utah? Maybe the idea of an “organized adventurer” seems like a contradiction, but Chez was determined to find a better way to pack.