Parapack is a small brand based in Salt Lake City known for its flagship product, the P-CAP. Weighing a mere 1 ounce, the P-CAP is a sun hat that can be folded up and stowed in your pocket when not in use. Launched in 2020, the P-CAP has now been worn by thousands of customers for everything from ultralight backpacking to international travel.
Parapack has learned a lot in the last few years, and is now ready to elevate the 1-ounce P-CAP with some awesome additional features. New things they’re hoping to incorporate into the P-CAP include:
- Recycled fabric that is lighter and more breathable, and also packs up thinner/ smaller
- Molded visor with laminated construction to prevent wrinkling
- Smart foam inside the visor to help recover the sun hat quickly to a "normal" cap shape once unpacked
- Fabric with built-in UPF 50 sun protection
- Fun new colors!
To fund these updates, Parapack just launched a Kickstarter campaign, which is essentially a platform for pre-sales, but with the intentionality of using crowdsourcing to bring a specific project to life.
Head on over to Parapack’s Kickstarter to learn more and support the campaign!
Can’t wait until August for your lightweight, foldable P-CAP? The current version is available on GGG — in stock and ready to ship! Choose between the original version of the P-CAP, which provides full head coverage, or the P-CAP Light, which is constructed with breathable mesh.
Jai-Yu Fu, who co-founded the brand with her husband Ian Hughes laughed, “If we were going to create something, we might as well have fun and be a little nerdy and funky with it.”
“That’s why we started Parapack,” she said. “We want to encourage thoughtful play and spread playful thoughts into the world.”
→ Support Parapack's Kickstarter
→ Shop in-stock P-CAPs on GGG
3 comments
Julie
I proudly love Parapack. I already backed this campaign and I’m going to tell you why you should too. You’re shopping from GGG and from other makers for unique hiking gear you just can’t get anywhere else. These makers do their best to create and innovate for the most part with available materials and precesses they can do themselves in their home studios. When they need to take their products to the next level, like Parapack now, to custom order a specific fabric from a mill or open a mold, those things cost a pretty penny for small cottage brands. This is where Parapack is now. In order to make the next, new, more awesome iteration of the P-Cap, they need your help. In this community, we need to support each other at every step of the prosses to keep innovating new ways to get on the trail. Backing Parapack’s campaign now will mean more awesome hats for next season and years to come.
Brie
Erwin, dictionary.com would beg to differ: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/intentionality
Erwin
Intentionality? That’s not a word. Deary me.
..with the intention of…