Testing Old vs New Camping Gear

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Check out Cometeer -- barista-level coffee that’s brewed to perfection, flash-frozen, and ready in seconds. Melt it into any drink, no machine needed. Get $30 off your first order at What happens when you go camping with 100 years of gear? We spent three days in Yosemite testing out camping tech from 1925, 1975, and 2025 — hiking, cooking, freezing, and slowly losing our minds — to see how much of a difference a century of innovation actually makes. From wool blankets and hardtack to freeze-dried beef stroganoff and titanium sporks, this was the ultimate test of comfort, suffering, and friendship. Part history lesson, part gear torture test, and part reminder of how ridiculously good we have it now. Shoutout to Yosemite and our amazing National Park Service. Help support our parks here: Get the new Kentucky Cobra merch: Join our membership program: Join our Discord (and The Boookclub)! Thanks to @ford for lending us the new Explorer ST for this --we fit ALL of this gear you see in the video, plus the 4 of us in it. And most importantly we were comfortable and looked cool. Follow me on instagram: Follow me on tiktok: Follow Speeed IG & other socials: Chapters: 0:00 1925 — The Hard Way 19:31 1975 — The Golden Age of Backpacking 35:56 2025 — Peak Comfort 50:04 Reflections