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While most of you are outside having fun with family and friends today, the Black Friday deals get underway, with some lasting through the weekend. In addition to the Patagonia Black Friday deal we wrote about earlier this week, below you will find a few other good ones we spotted for you.
Do you live in a small apartment but want to own a kayak, a few bikes, skis and a snowboard, and maybe an SUP? No problem. San Francisco startup Omni will store all your gear for you and deliver it to your door on demand. It’s like Uber for your gear.
It seems like a new gear rental site crops up pretty much every other day. The latest to come to my attention is GearUp–a Boston based startup that rents out ski apparel, GoPros, and drones. Founded by five Harvard Business School students this spring, GearUp’s success remains to be seen.
While some brick-and-mortar stores will remain closed today to incentivize us to play outside, online retailers are open for business (including REI), even extending Black Friday sales straight through the weekend (if they haven’t started already). If you know the gear you are looking for, check out our Gear Search Tool to figure out where you can buy it at the best price–we have access to the inventory of almost 100 retailers and it costs you nothing. Otherwise, we had a chance to preview some of the great deals available this weekend–here are a few of our favorites.
If you are an avid outdoors person, chances are your gear closet is overflowing with stuff you may not use all the time. Why not put it to good use and let someone else rent it–a person who may not be fortunate enough to own all their gear, not have the space to store it, or is just getting started? New Silicon Valley company RentEscape created on online marketplace for outdoor gear to facilitate peer-to-peer rental.