- How's it going today?
Jeff Colt, here with Backbone Media and
Black Diamond Equipment.
We're here to talk about
the new Distance 4 vest
from Black Diamond.
The Distance 4 is building
off of the Distance 8 and
the Distance 15 line.
It's a specific trail running
and racing vest though
with added easy mesh pockets
for additional storage.
Most notably, I want to
talk to you about the
trekking pole carry.
One thing we always encounter
when trail racing is
wanting to put on our wind shell and also
store our tracking
poles when we enter more
mountainous terrain.
So with the Distance 4 we have
an option to be able to have
an easy stored, accessible,
wind shell right up front.
This is the Deploy Wind Shell,
coming in at 45 grams.
So I'm going to slide it
right over the entire vest
and when I slide it over the vest,
I can still unzip to access everything.
And most importantly, I can
still access the pole carry.
So we're going to fold up our
trekking poles and carry them,
showing how to launch
this in front of the body.
Up here is the additional
top part of the pole storage.
So coming out, you load the
trekking poles in at the bottom.
I have two different
sized trekking poles here.
And over the top, quick cinch in front,
flip it over the head and
then cinch in the back.
So now I have my poles loaded on the pack,
not interfacing or
interacting with the shell
or actually like, cutting in to the shell.
And I can still access everything.
When I want to take the poles back out,
back over the head and undo them.
- [Jeff] We're looking
at the Sprinter 275.
It's an ultra running head
lamp from Black Diamond.
It comes with a BD 1800
rechargeable battery, lithium ion.
And that goes into the
back of the head lamp.
When you turn the head lamp on,
you actually get red
blinking light in the back,
that can be set as well or turned off.
You still have dimming
technology in the light,
so different settings.
So you can carry a spare with
you that's also lithium ion,
but the great part about the
Sprinter 275 is you can take
the battery pack out
and also use triple a's
if you need to use triple a's.
Sometimes alkaline batteries
perform better in the cold.
So you have both options with it.
And then again, that battery pack
is also your back light.
Here we have the Distance Carbon Pole.
It's a fixed length, 95 gram, carbon pole.
It comes in at the same weight
as this 95 gram Distance Shell.
It's incredibly light weight,
it's really durable and
it also has a pole accessory
basket for winter running,
interchangeable tips so you
could have a sharp tip or
a more dulled, muted tip
for running on rocks.
This wraps up the new trail
running equipment from
Black Diamond for 2020.
