Ben Masters's Profile

Hi Holler,

Ben Masters here, Founder of Scout / Seattle. Thanks for your thoughtful feedback. If you don't mind, I'd like to make a few comments as well.

I'm in Seattle and camp with the Field Bed all the time. It's not the sleeping bag I take with me to backpack 50 miles, but I use it all the time car camping. I keep it in the tent so it doesn't get wet, and when it does I dry it out on the line, no big deal. It rains here a lot, but most people aren't camping until it gets warmer and dries up. Summers are amazing here!

As for home use, I have a lot of customers who use this on their beds as a duvet, even a friend who uses it under his desk at work. I'd be pretty stoked to sleep on this as a guest in someone's house. An Ikea duvet would be fine -- just not a conversation starter over coffee in the morning.

For what it's worth, the Field Bed pricing is simply a function of what it costs us to make it from amazing materials in the US. It's expensive, sure, but I've sold out of them a few times already. It's not for everyone, but what is?

I like Subarus, but own a Volkswagen -- are those okay to "backpackers?" I also sit in a lot of coffee shops, but not on laptops -- chairs. Despite that I manage to get outdoors all the time, as do lots of our customers.

Thanks again for the opportunity to respond to your note. We spent a lot of time thinking about these things before launching Scout, so we're ready for the easy questions.

Best,
.b