Goertzen Adventure Equipment – Adventurous style: Joe Goertzen uses leather, canvas for outdoor bags

Vintage. Retro. Timeless. Quality.

Nostalgic.

Such words are prompted by the look and feel of Joe Goertzen’s outdoor adventure equipment http://www.joegoertzen.com/html/goertzen_adventure_equipment.html , which he crafts from canvas and leather in his Missoula home.

There’s an old-school aesthetic to these fly-fishing creels and rucksacks that calls to mind the earlier models of legendary outfitters C.C.Filson and L.L. Bean.

They aren’t copies of the classics; instead, they are inspired by and capture the spirit of that time when the world was perhaps more wild and the gear people packed had to be carefully designed, form following function, and sturdy enough to endure the abuse of sand, rock, wind and water for decades of outings.

By BETSY COHEN of the Missoulian

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