A small crew of Gettysburg hikers behind the counter.

Started with one bad pair of boots.

In 2015, our founder Dave Kessler hiked the entire Billy Yank Trail in boots that fell apart by mile nine. He figured if a battlefield-trail town like Gettysburg couldn't outfit its own hikers properly, somebody ought to fix that. Ridgeline Outfitters opened that fall on Buford Avenue, stocked with the boots, packs, and layers Dave wished he'd had.

A decade later we're still a small crew — five of us, all hikers, all locals — hand-picking gear that holds up on the Adams County trails we walk every weekend, from the battlefield's Billy Yank and Johnny Reb Trails to weekend runs up to Michaux State Forest.

"We don't sell anything we haven't hiked in ourselves." — Dave Kessler, Founder