Carry Guides
Guides, gear insights, and stories for carrying well.
Community
Community has always been at the heart of TOM BIHN. While many of our community efforts happen quietly behind the scenes, we’re continually looking for ways to support organizations doing meaningful work...
All about Bags
From time to time, we have the opportunity to share our customers stories. Danny O’Neil is a Northwest native who covered Puget Sound sports for 20 years at The Seattle Times,...
Community
Our Portable Culture Portrait blog series features TOM BIHN Forum members, the bags they carry, and the items they carry in their bags. It’s inspired by our Portable Culture tagline. This edition features Forum...
Community
Giving back to the community has always been an important aspect of TOM BIHN. Back in April, our team donated several Paragon bags to the mentees of the POE Scholarship Organization of...
Community
Hey everyone! Cody from TB Customer Service here, serving up a fun Q&A session with a world traveler who's very partial to a certain pack from our recent past... It's the Smart...
Community
The TOM BIHN Synapse 25 has been my trusted daily companion for 8 years. In 2019 our puppy Flake moved in, a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog. He challenged the fate of my beloved Synapse 25. This...
Community
In 2019, we spoke to Allegra Searle-LeBel about an ambitious zero-g dance project she and her dance company, Giant Leap, were doing. Allegra followed up with us in late 2020 and we wanted...
Community
Every year for the past however many years, the TOM BIHN Ravelry group has crafted wearable gifts for our crew. This year's wearable gifts are a variety of crocheted, knitted, and woven shawls, scarves,...
Community
above: Synapse in the “Andaman and Nicobar Islands” Our longtime customer and friend Rose was one of the first folks to receive the Truckasana in exchange for feedback. Here’s our Q&A with...
Community
In 2018, Rishi O shared his extended travel packing list in a post in our Forums (Everything I own in the Synapse 19). He recently posted an update in the unofficial TOM BIHN Facebook Group, and we then asked Rishi O if we could interview him for our blog and catch up on what's changed since 2018 — in life, packing, traveling, and bags.
Community
We’ve been honored to play a small role by sponsoring a joint project between the Quinault Indian Nation, BEF, and Twende Solar to bring the first renewable energy project to the Quinault Indian Nation — the installation of a 24 kW solar system with two Tesla Powerwalls for battery backup and resilience in the village of Queets. And if it wasn't for you, our customers, we wouldn't have been able to say yes to an opportunity to support a project like this one: thank you. Read on to learn more about the project and its impact.
Community
Every year, the TOM BIHN Ravelry group crafts wearable gifts for our crew. Some years the wearables have been scarves or gloves, and this year it was hats. This year, it's not just the artistry, patterns, and colors that make these hats mean so much to us — it's also that they're part of what keeps us warm here at the factory as we've made ventilation a top safety priority.
