The Grizzly Gaiter is our answer to one of the most crucial pieces of gear on the market; designed and tested by hardcore backcountry hunters in the most remote places of Wyoming and Idaho. Named for a predator renowned for it toughness and resilience, our gaiters can handle anything nature (or your mom) can throw at it.
Based in Northern Wyoming, and battle tested in the backcountry all over the west. We’re a small company of completely normal guys just like you; except we make the best gear in the world, put our pants on two legs at a time, and spend most of our free time kicking the crap out of ourselves in the woods. We also test all of our gear on the surface of the moon and our design team consists entirely of underpaid wombats. (Nobody reads these things anyways, so we can say whatever we want here!)
Because no good story ever started with “I was sitting on my couch…” adventure comes to those willing to pursue her.
If you haven’t checked out this epic hunt see the link in our description! Because maybe you can’t go on this adventure right this minute, but you can relive it.
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Sooooo story time.
Long before Katmai was even a thought in my pea brain, me and @mountainlyons307 were just out doing what we loved. Chasing critters.
It was a Friday and I took the day off to have a long weekend hunting the Wyoming Bear opener. Keaton didn’t have the PTO so he worked and hiked in later to meet me at camp. It was a slow morning and I hadn’t seen anything but a few elk and mule deer.
Keaton makes it up and we set to glassing two different spots. Eventually after he got bored and started looking for neat rocks I ended up spotting a black bear a few hundred yards away in the timber.
I made a rookie mistake and didn’t mark the spot before pulling my binos down to yell at Keaton. After about 10 minutes of waiting we switched to a different vantage point and all of the sudden Keaton spotted the bear standing in a cliff about 200 yards from where I had seen him.
I settled in for the shot and WHAM! Heard the impact and the bear fell off a 60 foot cliff. I called the wife and we waited about 30 minutes to go to the cliff where he had been standing. We found the blood stain and a bunch of blood along the cliff on the way down, marked the spot, and scurried down to the bottom to find the bear.
To our great surprise he wasn’t crumpled in a pile at the bottom of the cliff but we found a blood trail leading into the woods and took off after it— fully expecting to find this bear dead within 100 yards at most.
Well 400+ yards later through THICK timber I noticed my dog go dead still and lock onto something right as we step into a clearing. 10 yards away in the brush this black bear is broad side looking at us. I crack off 2 quick shots and we hear him go crashing through the timber as we try to corral my dog.
After a few tense minutes we hear some more crashing and it starts to get dark so we decided to pull back out of the thick timber for another 15 minutes and listen.
Hear the rest in PART 2
A little more of this and a little less Microsoft Teams.
Seeing gear that you poured your heart and soul (and no small amount of coin) to develop come to life and be used on what is arguably my own personal bucket list hunt is a feeling one cannot accurately describe.
📸 @mattcichowski
My lizard brain can only comprehend the year based off what hunting season comes next. And arguably my favorite is up to bat.
Proof that we would literally cross oceans to chase bears
Send this to your friend who tries to get you excited about chasing an overgrown chicken
You guys are the best. Couldn’t do it without you!
I mean… like we would try… but it probably wouldn’t work
At Katmai, we’re dedicated to bringing you the best possible product without ever taking ourselves too seriously. We’re (mostly) normal people so if you have any questions feel free to contact us and we’ll do our best to treat you exactly like we’d hope to be treated.
