A litre of water on the chest, a sleeve on the back for a bladder up to 3.5L, and enough pockets that nothing rides in a hand. Two 500mL flasks come in the box. Set it once at the start and it stays where you put it.
Two 500mL soft flasks, four insulated long straws and two short straws, which are the caps the flasks arrive with. A bladder for the rear sleeve is the only thing sold separately.
A vest earns its place by disappearing. No bounce to fight, no strap to fix, no bottle in your hand, nothing to think about once you have set it at the start.
Two 500mL soft flasks sit high on the front with bite valves in reach, so you drink without breaking stride or reaching behind you. Both flasks come in the box rather than as an upsell.
The back takes a bladder up to 3.5L with routing for the tube over the shoulder. That is the difference between needing an aid station every few miles and going a very long way unsupported. Bladder sold separately.
A lightweight mesh back panel moves air where a loaded vest usually traps heat, and adjustable side cords pull the whole thing tight to the ribs. Loaded or nearly empty, it does not bounce.
Two zip pockets, two stash pockets on each side and a trekking pole pouch on the back. Everything for a long day has a place, and nothing needs carrying in a hand.
Detail 01Flask Seats High
Detail 02Phone Pocket
Detail 03Cinch At The Ribs
Detail 04Keys Clip In
Detail 05Both Flasks Included
Detail 06Loads In A Minute
Reflects heat on an exposed course and shows every mile you put on it. Same build, different problem solved.
Select White
Trail dirt, salt, spilled mix. Wears a bib cleanly and disappears under a pack strap. The one that gets picked on race day.
Select Black
We did not pull this out of a factory catalogue and put a logo on it. The Ridgeline got drawn around the things that kept failing on our own kit: flasks sitting too low to drink from, straps that had to be reset every few miles, a back panel that turned into a heat trap by mile twenty.
Then it went out and got run into the ground before it was ever put on sale. Not in a lab, and not for a photo.
A second athlete took the same vest through a 200 mile race. It was the only vest he used for the whole distance. Nothing on this page is a feature we hoped would hold up.
It went the whole way and came back out for the next one. That is the only claim we are interested in making.
Ultra runners, ruckers, and people who just do not want to carry a bottle in their hand. Read every one of them, including the ones telling us what they would change.
