There are many good outfitters; Columbia, Patagonia, REI, Dick's Sporting Goods. However, the firm of Tate & Sons is not one of them. They somehow devised a tent which funnels any rainwater directly onto your face, a winter jacket made from chicken wire, and a compass which somehow points east-south-east.

It is understood by backcountry wanderers everywhere, that he who has a Tate's is lost.