Last Minute Gear closing potluck!

​THANK YOU to our Bay Area community who supported Last Minute Gear and our values around sustainability and access.

​Whether you are now a seasoned gearhead, or simply a buy nothing advocate, I hope you'll celebrate Last Minute Gear's 10 year run getting 12,000+ individuals and families outdoors (many for their first trips). Maybe you'll even meet a new adventure buddy!

​Starting around 11am, going until people have gone or the sun has set.

​Potluck

​Please bring something to share. Ideally, please label ingredients to accommodate folks with allergies.

​Impact

​By the way, we did some work to quantify our sustainability impact at a high level for our top rented summer items (tents sleeping bags/pads, and backpacks). Here, we've helped folks save over $500,000 in not having to buy 6000+ pieces of gear, representing a carbon offset of ~700,000 lbs (over 1000 cross country flights!).

​Our borrow program, the only one of its kind where people could borrow camping gear for FREE, helped save folks over $100,000 and was a key avenue for access for low income folks and students.

​Donate

​Many of you may know, but in the last few months of our shop, we entered a legal dispute with our landlord that almost went to court. The final settlement extracted a five-figure sum that I was counting on to pay down loans, since we've never moved back to cash flow positive after COVID.

​There are a lot of world events right now that deserve attention. However, if you have the means, and Last Minute Gear helped you create some beautiful memories in nature, I hope you'll donate to help pay our closing costs.