The new and improved JakPak will make its debut in Utah this weekend at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market trade show!

Salt Palace Convention Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
Come visit us at booth BR503

Be sure to watch JakPak’s Jim Rose and Michelle Poole, alongside KING 5 TV’s Jim Dever, as they ring in the New Year from the Space Needle in a live broadcast on New Year’s Eve. The show will be highlighting local inventions that will Change the Future!

When: 12:10 am, Jan. 1, 2010 (shortly after the fireworks show)
Where: KING 5 Seattle

New for 2010, the concept of the JakPak remains, but the details are all-new, and developed specifically with the outdoors and high-output activity in mind. Incorporating important design factors, the new design works better as a stand alone jacket with breathable hardshell fabric on the front of the jacket and sleeping bag, pit zips and fully detachable sleeping bag and tent, integrated collar with hood and more, the all-new Jakpak is perfect for everyone from the emergency aid worker to the light and fast hiker/camper, to soccer moms and sports fans at open stadiums and fields.

When all the pieces are together, the new JakPak can replace your old bivouac set up, weighing the same or less, and certainly costing less than buying your structured bivy and jacket separately. And, you can sit up and drink coffee in it! Try that in a regular bivy.

For more details, visit JakPak’s Specs page.

Our first shipments of six JakPaks were shipped last week to Salvation Army national headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia— the first step in what we hope will be a long-term and mutually beneficial relationship with The Salvation Army. The JakPak began with President Terry Jensen’s many years of working with homeless people in Seattle, and it is our hope, over time, to enable the Salvation Army to distribute JakPaks to those ‘who need it most.’ Active Engineering’s long-term goal is to be able to donate a percentage of sales to Non-Profit organizations to distribute to the thousands around the world without a jacket/shelter. We are very excited about this new step and will keep you all posted on how things progress.