Congratulations on winning a place among BACKPACKER Magazine’s esteemed “Editor’s Choice” Awards for 1996. Your Escape Folding Canoe was one of just 12 products selected to receive this year’s award from the hundreds of products available.
The Editors’ Choice Awards pay tribute to innovation in design, materials and performance. All winners excelled in field tests and come recommended by no fewer than three editors. Editors’ Choice Awards are regarded as the most prestigious awards in the outdoor industry. Our experience, along with our staff’s impeccable outdoor credentials and rigorous and objective field testing standards, make these awards an outstanding mark of quality for the companies and products chosen.
Part of a letter from Backpacker Magazine announcing the selection of our canoes for an Editors’ Choice award. (The PakCanoes were sold under the name Escape in 1996.)