Snow Peak has made outdoor equipment in Niigata since 1958, and the clothing line that arrived in 2014 carries the same thinking — Gore-Tex shells, insect shield jackets, dobby cloth parkas and easy shorts, cut
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Snow Peak has made outdoor equipment in Niigata since 1958, and the clothing line that arrived in 2014 carries the same thinking — Gore-Tex shells, insect shield jackets, dobby cloth parkas and easy shorts, cut to be worn in a city as readily as a campsite. Alongside it, the titanium cookware and cast-iron fire pits the company built its name on. Stocked in our Manchester and Sheffield shops.
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About Snow Peak
Yukio Yamai founded Snow Peak in 1958 in Tsubame-Sanjo, a town in Niigata that has been Japan's metalworking centre for generations. He was a climber, he could not buy crampons and pitons he trusted, and he lived somewhere full of people who could make them — so he had them made. The name comes from Mount Tanigawa, the peak he climbed repeatedly and which has killed more people than any mountain in the world. His son Tohru moved the company from mountaineering into camping in the 1980s and largely invented Japanese car-camping culture doing it. His granddaughter Lisa started the apparel line in 2014.
Snow Peak clothing: shells, parkas and t-shirts
The apparel is the newest part of the company and the part that has grown fastest here. It is designed to cross between a campsite and a city without looking wrong in either — which sounds like marketing until you see the Light Dobby Cloth parka and Harrington, which read as ordinary jackets until you notice the fabric. The Gore-Tex rain jacket and Windstopper bal collar coat handle actual weather. Insect Shield pieces are treated to repel biting insects, which matters more in a Scottish summer than most people admit. Below that sit the everyday layers: garment-dyed and graphic t-shirts, dry waffle long sleeves, Standard Easy Shorts, utility pants and down jackets for winter.
Snow Peak titanium cookware and fire pits
The gear is where the company started and where the Tsubame-Sanjo connection shows. Titanium is difficult to work and the local metalworkers can do it, which is why Snow Peak's mugs, sporks, chopsticks and Trek cookware are titanium rather than aluminium — lighter than steel, corrosion-proof, and it does not flavour what is in it, so coffee tastes of coffee. Double-wall cups hold heat; single-wall ones can go straight on a flame. The other half of the gear is fire: the Pack and Carry Fireplace, the fire ring table and the fire tool set, all built so a fire can be had without scorching the ground under it. None of it is designed to be replaced — the mugs and cookware are the same shapes the company was making decades ago, and they wear rather than break.
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