Ripcord Adventure Gear Guide #1

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Unless you’ve ventured into a Go Outdoors store, or were at the
Telegraph Travel and Outdoor Show in London, you probably
haven’t yet come across the OEX name. What you might have seen,
tromping across a mountainside or desert, however, is a bright red
tent glowing in the distance. They tend to catch the eye.
OEX is currently exclusive to Go Outdoors stores. The
development team have come up with new initiatives and their
mission is to create high quality, appropriately priced outdoor
products with advanced features, and to give their overpriced
competitors in the group sales market a serious run for their money.
Four really important things set OEX’s products apart. Firstly,
they're designed by people who intimately understand the needs of
their customers and at the same time are trying to teach them good
habits. The tents have big doors and easy clips (necessary for cold
hands fumbling with something unfamiliar) and the inners and
outers come in their own dry bags so that one won't make the other
wet. The tent can therefore also be split easily between two people,
or between three if the third takes the poles and pegs.