Outdoor living.
The outdoor living lineup is held against three pillars: expedition shelters built for a real trip, field kitchens sized to the load a vehicle actually carries, and the smaller camp-living gear that rounds out a night away from the truck. Each pillar earns a place on the line only once a maker, a freight plan, and a warranty the depot can stand behind are all confirmed — nothing joins the catalogue on a promise alone.
StoneWave · Mineral Expedition
How the catalogue is chosen.
Five questions sit behind every line we add. They’re process questions — not scorecard questions — and the answer for each unit is held against the freight plan, not against a number we can’t defend.
What we look at
- Margin viabilityWhether the price supports the freight plan and the maker’s warranty handoff without padding, so the line stays sellable at the rate we ship.
- Shipping feasibilityWhether the size, weight, and origin depot support the DDP freight routes our buyers actually run, and whether a single carrier will sign for a unit at that weight class.
- Warranty termsWhether the maker’s published warranty is something we can stand behind at the order desk — who handles the claim, what the turnaround looks like, and whether it survives a cross-border shipment.
- Supplier reliabilityWhether the maker answers email without a chase, ships within the window they list, and replaces a defective unit without a fight — the day-to-day handoff, not a sticker on the box.
- Field suitabilityWhether the unit fits the trip a serious outdoor or overlanding customer actually runs — the load, the climate, the vehicle, and the cadence a buyer would be willing to live with.
A line only opens for sale when each question answers yes, and when the freight plan lines up to actually ship the unit. If any one of the five answers “not yet”, the line stays on the bench until it does.
The lineup opens once every entry has a maker, a freight plan, and a depot sign-off.
Expedition shelters, field kitchens, and camp-living gear are all held in the same pre-launch posture as the rest of the catalogue: one maker per line, a freight plan that can actually carry the unit, and a warranty the depot will sign off on before the page goes live. Nothing is listed until the lineup clears that bar.