Camp Gear Experts publishes camping equipment guidance built from published standards, physical constants and arithmetic that is shown rather than asserted.
Why it exists#
Camping advice on the internet is overwhelmingly organised around products, because products are what can be sold. That structure produces a lot of writing and remarkably little understanding. It is easy to find ten opinions about which sleeping bag to buy, and hard to find a plain explanation of what the number on the label means, which is the thing that would let you decide for yourself.
The underlying subject is not mysterious. Warmth at night is a heat balance. Fuel is an energy calculation. Ice is a latent heat problem. Waterproof ratings are a pressure test with a defined method. Once those are explained, most gear questions answer themselves, and the answers stay true after this season's models are discontinued.
What we publish#
- Guides organised into eight systems: sleep, shelter, kitchen and water, packs, clothing, power and lighting, basecamp, and care and repair.
- Calculators that run in your browser and show their working, covering sleep temperature, base weight, stove fuel, cooler ice, power, tent size and food.
- Reference material, including a glossary of the terms and standards that appear on labels, with the number ranges that make each one useful.
Every chart on the site is generated from source data at build time and carries the numbers behind it in an expandable table, so nothing exists only as a picture. All of them are gathered, with CSV downloads, on the reference data page.
What we do not publish#
We do not run comparative laboratory testing of branded products, so we do not publish product rankings or "best of" lists. Our method, and its limits, are set out in full on how we evaluate gear.
We recommend specifications instead: the R-value, the floor area, the comfort rating with a margin, the watt-hour figure. Those apply to whatever is in stock where you are.
How it is funded#
By advertising displayed alongside the content. There are no sponsored articles, no paid placements, no free products accepted in exchange for coverage, and no advertiser involvement in what is written. The full position is on the disclosure page.
Standards and accountability#
Our editorial standards set out sourcing rules, how advice is framed and what we will not publish. Mistakes are logged publicly on the corrections page rather than edited away quietly.
If something here is wrong, unclear, or hard to use with assistive technology, we would like to know: editors@campgearexperts.com. More ways to get in touch are on the contact page.