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VSSL’s Essentials: Multi-Use Kits To Keep You Prepared Outdoors

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Essential For Adventure

VSSL’s all-new, premium Essentials Collection

It’s essential to have the right gear when preparing for your next adventure, no matter where you’re heading. With the temperature rising and summer travel booming, VSSL Camp Supplies has you covered with their ALL-NEW Essentials Collection, for your next adventure. Whether you are an outdoor fanatic or looking to try a new activity this spring, the Essentials Collection allows you to stay prepared for any situation that may arise.

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Sometimes, a small addition can make a big impact. That’s why VSSL Camp Supplies created the Essentials Collection — a selection of Everyday Carry kits that have small footprints and big capabilities in the outdoors. The collection includes a curated selection of four multi-use gear kits and tools in VSSL’s standard waterproof, indestructible aluminum vessels. VSSL kits are only two inches in diameter and weigh in at less than a pound, making them compact, easy to pack, and relatively light.

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Each VSSL kit begins with a core design: a 9-inch, military-grade aluminum cylinder that has two threaded endcaps. The aluminum end caps have rubber gaskets that ensure a waterproof seal, protecting the supplies from the elements.


“VSSL” (PRON. VESSEL): A container that holds items of importance to its owner. With the build your own tool, VSSL Camp Supplies has provided a very unique way for you to customize what works best for your adventure.


Essentials: Catch & Cook Kit

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For the angler and fisherman needs, the Catch & Cook Kit is a must-buy this season. A minimalist carry kit equipped with the angling essentials and fire-building necessities for a DIY trout dinner.  Rooted in self-reliance, the Catch and Cook angling kit allows you to take on the (fun) challenge of sustaining yourself in the wild.

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Each kit includes a fishing tackle tin, a wire saw, and a fire striker kit. The tackle tin contains 15 pieces of fishing equipment, from rubber worms and hooks to 50 feet of 20lb line. The Wire Saw (with canvas strap handles) easily cuts larger pieces of wood to build a fire. Lastly, the Fire Striker tin contains cotton fire starting tabs, a ferro rod (which can spark even in wet conditions), and a striker made with a ceramic blade that doubles as a knife when needed.

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Essentials: Fix Kit

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For the trip that doesn’t go as planned, the Fix Kit is filled with repair necessities no one in the backcountry should be caught without — because stuff breaks out there.

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The Fix Kit contains one roll of trail marking tape (which can be used as first aid tape and repair tape for fabric products like jackets and tents), a tin filled with zip ties, and a Miscellaneous Gear tin — which contains functional basics like a sewing kit, whistle, and Gear Twists (reusable rubber twist ties). Altogether, it’s basically a MacGyver in a VSSL. And for added ease, the carabiner top easily clips to the outside of any pack.

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Essentials: Ready Kit

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For the ready-for-anything adventurer, the Ready Kit is essential in your backcountry journey. The Ready Kit was designed to easily add less common (but critical) backcountry gear to your adventures, all in a handheld Mini VSSL.

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It might be hard to believe at first sight, but yeah, VSSL fit a wire saw in a handheld canister. Plus more. The Ready Kit packs a wire saw, 8 feet of SurvivorCord™, a razor blade, and a 25-foot rope. Use it to build shelters, repair gear, navigate, shave kindling, and hang dry lines. Don’t let the small things stop the exploring and be prepared with VSSL.

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Essentials: Mini Utility Light

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This handheld adventure kit comes disguised as a 4-mode LED flashlight, which illuminates a large area for up to 40 hours of continuous flashlight operation.

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For all your most basic needs, each M.U.L. includes 1 roll of multipurpose adventure tape that can be used to repair gear, flag trails, and patch clothing; 2 bamboo clothes that can be used for hygiene or as fire starters and water filters; and 1 tin you can fill with whatever is essential to you (i.e., a compass, extra batteries, medication, first aid, etc).

Who doesn’t need a product like this one?!

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VSSL Outdoor Utility Tools

The northern Canadian wilderness is the master teacher for what’s vital in the outdoors, and what is not. In this environment, excess is quickly replaced by utterly essential. This landscape was the proving ground that inspired Todd Weimer’s (VSSL Founder) vision for VSSL CAMP Supplies; an ultra-durable outdoor tool that contains all your critical gear, in it’s most compact form.