Derek Holt

Derek Holt

Derek Holt has spent the last fourteen years backpacking through the Cascades, the Colorado Rockies, and Patagonia, logging thousands of trail miles across three continents. He developed a particular focus on shelter systems and sleep insulation after a brutal November trip in the Wind River Range exposed the gaps in his original kit. His reviews draw directly from multi-night field use rather than parking-lot tests, with a preference for gear that performs in shoulder-season and winter conditions. He started writing to give straightforward answers to the questions he spent years piecing together himself.