Places to Purchase Trekking Gear in India

Trekking shoes - Adventure 18 Satya Niketan, opposite to Venky's college. You can go for Quecha Forclays 500. Should come within INR 3200 or so.

For backpack - You can try, Carabin International at Okhla. You will find their address and nos in the internet. I personally found branded backpacks to be high on cost. Alternatively, you can also try Wildcraft outlets for backpacks. One that I know of, is in Great India Place mall at sec 18 Noida.

Hope this information helps you.

Rajat

Stikage (Kamla Nagar) has had some quality issues reported, but being conveniently located, I have purchased some of the stuff from them and though it is not gold safe quality but has served its purpose at a low cost. Stuff I can say is okay:

1. Backpack: Rs. 1350 for 65L
2. Day pack: Goes neatly into the backpack on top even when fully filled, making it one bag for carrying. Rs. 600
3. Fleece: Rs. 700
4. Fleece cap: Rs. 200
5. Warm Gloves: Rs. 150
6. Snow grip: Rs. 950
7. 50% down jacket: Rs. 2000-3500 (three models)
8. Gaiters: Rs.450, not great but ok

Don't buy their shoes (they sell for Rs. 1200 otherwise good shoes - heavy though - but whose coating has disintegrated) or aluminium walking stick (I make do with a tape on it).

I saw Forclaz 500 at Wildcraft in TGIP Mall, Noida. Price quoted was Rs 3500/-. They claim it is fully waterproof ! I could see that the outer surface of the shoe material was different & seemed water proof. Are these really waterproof ?

MSK

I think mostly these shoes are water repellent and not water proof. Though I walked with mine (Forclaz 500) through soft snow for 2 full days and also while it rained. It kept my feet dry all through. I will definitely recommend it to all.

Rajat

I want to buy a tent for camping. Size - for two persons (should be able to accommodate 2 persons 6 feet tall). Should be good quality but not unduly expensive.

Can you please mention from where I can get this in Delhi. As mentioned earlier "Trekkers point" in PVR Connaught Place is very expensive.

I will be going to Manali for trekking in June and want to use the tent there.

MSK

You can also hire these tents from Manali. Alternatively you can try to buy from Adventure 18 @ Satya Niketan (01132970400) or Carabin Adventure @ Okhla (01165544434). Between the two, the rates of Carabin is more reasonable.

Rajat

Thanks Rajat. I will try both Carabin & Adventure 18.

hey I checked your advices but I couldnt find a hint. Is there a Trekking shop near New Delhi Train Station? I arrive at the airport at 4 pm so I think I am at the train station around 6 pm. My trains leaves at 23:55. Are there any possibilities to shop some stuff?

thank you for your help

You can check out the following outlet, which is also mentioned in the 1st post of this thread. But as I mentioned earlier I found it a bit on the expensive side. This will be close to New Delhi Railway station.


Trekkers Point
Main Entrance, Mezzanine Floor
PVR Plaza, Connaught Place
New Delhi - 110001
Tel : 23325475, 23323362 Fax:23713245
Mob : 9313709326
mail : eagle@eagle-grp.com coleman@eagle-grp.com

Or you could drop by at Satya Niketan (near Venky's college) to visit Adventure 18 shop. This will be on your way from airport to railway station. I have given their phone number in a post above this.

Hope this helps you.

Rajat

I have been shopping over the last few days for light weight trekking gear - rucksack, sleeping bag, fleece jacket, stove, tent - for an "alpine style" trek that I intend to go on next month. What I have been specifically looking for are a light weight (<1.5kg) sleeping bag with a temperature rating of 0 (comfort) to -5 (min) or so, a lightweight (~1.5kg) 50-55 l backpack, a lightweight (~3kg) 3 person tent and stoves

My experience with the stores in Delhi has ranged from bad to worse and prompted me to write about it here so that others will know what to expect.

I visited the shop in Plaza complex CP, Gupta Sports on Janpath CP, Adventure 18 opposite Venkateshwara College, Wildcraft in Kamala Nagar and Stickage in Kamala Nagar.

My uniform experience with salesmen in these shops (except for Stickage) was that they had no idea about the specifications of any product. The salesmen in Gupta Sports tried to push a sleeping bag based on the extreme limit ratings (the outside temperature at which a person in the sleeping bag will survive for 6hrs but with no guarantee that he will be spared frostbite). They had no idea what the three numbers ( comfort, minimum, extreme) on the sleeping bags meant. But Gupta sports may be excused for it is not really a specialist trekking/mountaineering gear store.

At Adventure 18, none of the salesmen could explain the volume labels on Boll backpacks which went something like 37+12 or 48+12. Other questions that I had - the back support design, for example - were clearly not worth asking. They had a stove on display which was much cheaper than the one at Plaza - but no specifications. At the Plaza complex, the salesman had no idea of the weight specification of the sleeping bags on display. He told me it would be 1.5 or 2 kg, the difference did not matter to him! The specifications for the stove on display were not available.

At Wildcraft, a company that specializes in backpacks, the salesman could not tell me the weights of the backpacks though these are advertised in their website. After some prodding, he phoned another office and after some asking around, gave me weights which differed from what I had seen in their website. (Ex: He told me that trailblazer weighed 1.3kg, the website says 1.7kg).

I finally found a TRIMM Highlander sleeping bag with (+2comfort, -3limit) rating and weight 1.4kg at Adventure 18. The salesmen there were not interested in showing me this bag (they stopped with the Quechua S0 and S-5) and became aware of it only after some persistent prodding!

I picked up a medium size fleece jacket at Wildcraft after trying L and M sizes. After I got home, I found that I had a large size jacket though its label was M. This necessitated another trip to the shop next day and I get the display piece in exchange - apparently that is the only piece they have left.

Overall, I found the salesmen in these shops ( with the exception of Stickage where I did not encounter any salesmen) uninformed and worse, uninterested in selling

Where can I buy gore tex shoes and jackets in ahmedabad, gujarat.

hello im members,
i need information where do i get camping gears like swiss tents,canvas tents which are used mostly in camps which can survive in any climate.

Well there is hike in the price for some of the Wildcraft products. I purchased rucksack (Gangotri Model) today from GIP Noida for 5500, which earlier was for 5000. Even the price for Forclaz 500 is now 4000/-.

Does anyone have any idea about the stuff in the shops in the Paltan bazaar area in Dehradun, specifically the sleeping bags? While these are obviously fakes/imitations (North Face, Mammut etc.), I thought it would be worthwhile to ask because they look more or less the same as the ones I've rented in Leh, which served my purpose well enough. I've heard that all this stuff comes from Nepal anyway, and that Nepali knockoffs are often pretty good, or good enough.

Ultimately I'm hoping a fake bag rated for let's say -20 c will do the job for -10 c conditions, with an inner if necessary. Any ideas? Thank you.