Great ideas happen when you wake up shivering in the dead of night in the west of Ireland. We knew there had to be a better way of getting a good night's sleep in the great outdoors. We needed a tent that is more than a tent; that is a comfortable refuge that would be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. In a moment of freezing clarity, we realized that we were going to have to build it ourselves.

Crua™ was founded by an Irishman with years of experience in camping and trekking outdoors. The team has expanded now and we reckoned that building an all-weather tent worthy of our own adventures was a natural fit for our skills... so yeah, we pushed the limits and over-engineered the heck out of it. So much so that the unique Thermo Tent insulation that we developed is now patent protected.

Introducing the revolutionary Crua range of high quality insulated tents. It's all about getting a better night's sleep in any weather, which a Crua tent provides by virtue of its superior quality, functionality, and design. You won't find a better thermally and acoustically insulated tent in the world. The secret? It's got a double chamber. We've engineered an awesome inner compartment made of a three-layer blend of poly-cotton and high-density insulation. So no matter where you are, you stay wonderfully warm in the winter and refreshingly cool in the summer. And with unequaled toughness, it's sturdy as hell. That's why our company is called Crua, which means "hard" or "tough" in Gaelic.

Crua in Gaelic also means "forgiving", in the sense of being easy to manage or use. All of our tents are built to provide the most comfortable, quietest night's sleep you'll experience outside your own bedroom. When you sleep well, you camp well.
And about us? Well, we found the perfect excuse to give up our day jobs; so we pooled our funds, got on Kickstarter to fund our expansion, and now we apply all the stuff we learned in design and business to build more cool tents and camping products for Crua Outdoors. And yeah, it also means that a lot of field testing and camping outdoors is involved, which is exactly how a dream job should be.

We run our business from County Kerry in the southwest of Ireland, but with folks on the team from as far away as the arid outback of Australia to the lakeside camping retreats in the heart of the Adirondacks, we thought it was time to pitch another office, so you'll also find us in Lake Placid, New York. The global outdoors.
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