Alite Designs is a San Francisco-based maker of tents, backpacks, sleeping bags and other outdoor gear for for people who, ironically enough, don't like camping. Or, perhaps more accurately, for ...

Like a book from the library, you can check out a kit of gear. Pick it up, camp out for a weekend, then return it — that is the simple concept helping people get outdoors in San Francisco. Alite ...

City living is a lame excuse for being cooped up…. That line comes from Alite Designs’ company description, which goes on to note that even though headquartered in the dense city of San Francisco ...

Young San Franciscans lounge around a campfire, drinking beer and rocking in Alite's award-winning nylon camping chairs. Except the fire is made of wood scraps artfully perched on a patch of fake turf ...