Enlightened Equipment.

This company I have known about for a long while, they make very high quality quilts and jackets for backpackers, or really anyone who likes to get out into nature and be all warm and cozy. Preface, I don’t actually own anything from them as of yet, personally I hate being warm, unless my feet get cold. I am in the market for a new quilt, so maybe I will be purchasing from them soon!

Anyways, why am I here? I happened to see a jacket they recently released, The Torrid Pullover, its a pretty slick jacket that I could see myself in one day if the ice age comes back. Now what got me interested was the feature they call the marsupial Pouch, the pocket at the belly, now why this interested me is up for you to think about. But I thought about opossums living in the pocket. So I made that image.

Okay, now I know opossums are kind of like big tree rats that are lazy and trying to die. But they can be cute, just google baby possums. Anyways, this is the thing I made after seeing the jacket and thinking about marsupials. Although I don’t really remember how the toad made it in there, I like to think that a opossum momma might adopt a loner toad and raise them. But toads are schemers, so prolly not a good idea on the opossums part.

Again. As an avid hiker, I do think that this jacket would serve very well. When backpacking with a full zip jacket, nothing is more annoying than one side getting stuck behind your backpack strap, or fidgeting with zippers with gloves or icy hands. So naturally A partial zip makes a lot of sense.

If you buy one, put a opossum or toad in it and let me know if they like it. I sent this picture to Enlightened Equipment on Instagram, and actually did get a little response, so that was fun.

I do this almost purely for the fun, and I do enjoy getting some little validation from these brands or companies that I appreciate. At the end of the day, if some big company doesn’t have the heart to at least notice something a fan does, then maybe they have lost touch with the people that helped them get to where they are.

I do know that this whole post has been very weird and technically dumb. But sometimes I enjoy writing stream of conscious. Hope you enjoyed.