Meet the NEW ADV3NTURE Hoodie! It has all of the personality of our original ADV3NTURE Hoodie, which is the most funded hoodie ever on Kickstarter. But this one is better made, has a 5-year guarantee, and this guy’s made right here in America!

Four years ago, we launched the Adv3nture Hoodie, an innovative hoodie that was heralded for its style, comfort and design.

Now we’re back with TWO NEW HOODIES that are All-American. At ADV3NTURE, we launch our new products on Kickstarter because we love the community that we have built through crowdfunding. With the success our brand has experienced, we’re back with hoodies that are more stylish, more comfortable, and have improvements to people’s favorite innovations.

THE ADV3NTURE HOODIE and THE CLASSIC HOODIE are hand-crafted in America, from the ground up. It all starts with American cotton grown in North Carolina, zippers made in Georgia, and the final product being cut and sewn in California. Our new hoodies (and as of 2020, ALL of our  products) are made by hard-working Americans, like you.

We’re so proud of how well our hoodies are made that we guarantee our workmanship. If within the first five years of owning your new hoodie, it rips, tears, or the zipper breaks, we’ll mend it for free. This guarantee is is applicable for domestic (USA) customers AND international customers.

Our ADV3NTURE Hoodie brings back everyone’s favorite features and innovations in a more refined and durable version of our original hoodie. It’s designed to be your favorite everyday hoodie with comfort, stylishness and quality at the forefront. It has innovative construction elements, like a three-panel hood, over-locking seams, and our proprietary French terry loop fabric.

Our CLASSIC Hoodie has the same silhouette as the new ADV3NTURE Hoodie, including the comfort, durability, and construction. We removed some of the innovations of from the ADV3NTURE hoodie. What we ended up with was a stylish, premium hoodie with just the right number of features and enough colors for every day of the week!

The ADV3NTURE Hoodie and the CLASSIC Hoodie have the same dimensions and measurements and are made with the same fabric and materials. Below is a comparison of their features.

We are offering the ADV3NTURE and CLASSIC hoodies in EIGHT colors. There are no stretch goals, where we need to raise a certain amount in this campaign before they become available. ALL colors, named after California landmarks, are available once the campaign reaches its funding goal. At the end of the campaign, you will be emailed a survey (to the email associated with your Kickstarter account) where you’ll tell us the color(s) and size(s) that you’d like us to send you.

If you’d like to add additional hoodies to your pledge once the campaign is over, you can do so easily in your survey.

Our Catalina hoodie was inspired by the blue waters around Santa Catalina, an island off the coast of Los Angeles. One of California’s Channel Islands, it’s known for its wildlife, dive sites and Mt. Orizaba, its highest peak.

Our Humboldt green hood was inspired by the green hills of Humboldt county, 270 miles north of San Francisco. Humboldt County is a densely forested region with nearly 1,500,000 acres of forest land and contains dozens of national, state, and local parks. They are also know for a particular green crop, but that had nothing to do with the name… we promise.

Our Mojave color was inspired by the sands of Mojave National Preserve, the third largest of the America’s National Parks. Singing sand dunes, cinder cone volcanoes, and a large Joshua tree forest are found within this 1.6-million-acre park. A visit to its canyons, mountains, and mesas will reveal long-abandoned mines, homesteads,  rock-walled military outposts, and an abandoned train depot.

This color was inspired by the wines of the Napa Valley, widely considered one of the top wine regions in the US. Visiting one of the valley’s wineries every day would take over a year! More than four hundred wineries and grows many different grape varieties including Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Zinfandel, and other popular varietals.

Rising nearly 5,000 feet above Yosemite Valley and 8,800 feet above sea level, Half Dome is a Yosemite icon. This hoodie is a tribute to this impressive natural monument. Considered to be unclimbable in 1865, Half Dome was first summitted in 1875. The south face of Half Dome is now “conquered” by thousand of people every year.

This color was inspired by California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, home to steaming fumaroles, meadows freckled with wildflowers, clear mountain lakes, and numerous volcanoes. Jagged peaks tell the story of its eruptive past while hot water continues to shape the land. Lassen Volcanic offers opportunities to discover the wonder and mysteries of volcanoes and hot water for visitors willing to explore the undiscovered.

This hoodie is a tribute to the US Navy, which has a strong presence in California, and all branches of the military. Cheers to all of the brave men and women who risk their lives to protect our way of life! For all serving, and who have served, we greatly appreciate your service and sacrifice.

This hoodie is a tribute to Black Rock, a lava rock outcropping at the north end of Ka’anapali Beach. The Hawai’ian name for Black Rock is Pu’u Keka’a, and ancient Hawaiians believed that this was the place where their spirits went to jump off to join ancestors forever. This color is also a nod to our friends at Maui Brewing Company, who have been supporters of Adv3nure since the beginning. We can’t wait to have a beer with you soon!

We have always taken pride creating thoughtful innovations into our garments. Over the years, we have been refining and perfecting the features of our hoodies to make them streamlined and subtle. You’ll find some of your favorite features in the descriptions below, as well as some of our developments in manufacturing, which make these hoodies better than any we have made.

Our signature Beverage Pocket holds your drink, so you can keep your hands free to do other things. Hold your coffee while you walk to the dog and talk on the phone. Hold your beer while you hold your plate and a fork. Hold a baby bottle while you hold your baby. We’re SURE you’ll find plenty of uses for this pocket!

Our Thumb-Hole Mitts have been a favorite feature of the ADV3NTURE Hoodie since the beginning! Unfold the cuffs to reveal the thumb-holes and enough material to keep your hands warm. Whether you use them as drinking gloves (to keep your beverage from warming up in your hands) or to keep your hands warm as the temperature drops, try them once and you’ll be hooked!

Both of our hoodies convert into pillows, a feature we find constantly useful. Simply roll them up into the Three-Panel Hood, which has been designed for the pillow conversion. Whether you’re a passenger on a long car ride or want a place to rest your head while camping, the pillow conversion will be more convenient than you can imagine.

The Three-Panel Hood has been design to more comfortably fit your head. Rather than a one-piece hood where the fabric is bunched to create the shape of your melon, our three-panel hood uses three components to create an incredibly comfortable head covering.

The Passport Pocket lets you keep your valuable, like money, your ID, phone, or your passport close to your chest. The ZigZag stitching around the pocket holds the interior pocket in place, so the contents of your pocket stay secure.

The split Kangaroo Pockets are held in place by over-lock stitching and bar-tack reinforced edges to ensure their durability. The openings of the pockets are angled for maximum comfort as they hold your hands and keep them warm.

Inside the right kangaroo pocket is a hidden pocket inside to secure your valuable, like your keys, so they don’t fall out while you’re adventuring. It will give you extra confidence when carrying items around in your pockets.

Most independent craft breweries (which we’re fans of) are canning beer rather than bottling it, but as a throwback to the bottle-openers that we used to include in our hoodies and jackets, we’re including this canvas bottle-opener PATCH (similar to the ones in our flannels), so you can twist off your bottle caps without damaging the French terry loop fabric.

All of the zippers on the new hoodies are metal YKK zippers, the most durable, high-quality zippers available. And, they’re made right here in the USA. This includes the main zipper on the ADV3NTURE and CLASSIC hoodies, as well as the zippers on the beverage pocket and passport pocket.

We’ve added Elbow Pads to the arms of the ADV3NTURE Hoodie for added comfort, as well as to reduce wear on the area where your hoodie will come into contact with hard surfaces. They also add a bit of style to your hoodie, so people know you mean business.

It’s not quite as complicated as a GPS tracker, but our return home tag, and the honesty of a good samaritan should get your hoodie back to you if you happen to leave it on one of your adventures. It also contains our pledge to plant three trees with every purchase, including the hoodie you receive from this campaign.

Here’s a closer look!

We’ve made sure that all of the stitching used in our hoodies keep your hoodie intact during your adventures. We use over-lock stitching on the top of the shoulders, so they lay flat, to make the seams comfortable if you happen to be wearing a backpack.

We’ve spent nine months developing a unique fabric that we love. It’s a high-density French terry fabric blend that is the best overall weight, and retains the its shape (being nearly shrink resistant), maintains durability, and is the optimal softness.

Our hoodies start with raw cotton grown in North Carolina, where it is combed and spun in a yarn mill. The yarn is then transported to Los Angeles, where the yarns are knitted into our proprietary French terry loop. The fabric is then sent to our dye house, where the fabric blend achieves its subtle heathered appearance. It is then pre-washed (pre-shrunk) in our manufacturing facility. At that point, the fabric is inspected for any imperfections from the knitting or dying process. Once the fabric passes inspection, it is then ready to be cut and sewn into your new hoodie.

Keeping our manufacturing domestic enables us ensure the highest quality of raw materials that are sourced for production, while allowing us to oversee the entire process to ensure high production standards through the entire process. We are also able to ensure that our high environmental standards are being maintained.

Hand-crafting our products domestically lets us keep jobs in the US, especially in a time where they’re needed most. We are incredibly proud that all of our apparel is made by hard-working Americans.

As you likely know, it costs more to manufacture products in the USA than it does overseas. That’s true. It costs 2-3 times the amount to make our hoodies domestically than it would cost to make the same hoodie internationally. The reason for this comes down to what people are paid to make the product. It is also reflected in the salaries that people are paid to produce the raw materials.

So why make our products here, when we could save money making them there? For us, the increased costs are worth the benefits of domestic manufacturing. Not only are we able to produce a better product and be able to monitor our environmental impact, but we’re keeping jobs in the USA, especially in these times when they’re needed most.

Because we have moved production to the US, we will be able to reduce the time between the conclusion of this Indiegogo campaign and the day you receive your hoodie. In the past, with our overseas manufacturers, it has take 140-160 days from when we place the order to when the orders were shipped to backers — much of this time with the product being spent in transit. We’ve now reduced that time to less than 90 days.

Our Indiegogo launched on August 21st and will conclude on September 18th. Once you get your survey, kindly respond to it ASAP. We will need them back before September 29th, so we can begin production on September 30th This will enable us to send your hoodie out to you by November 16th.

Being an environmentally conscious brand means we understand the importance of the environment and our affect on it. We are actively taking steps to reduce our carbon footprint by utilizing domestic raw materials and planting three trees to offset our environmental impact.

The “3” in our name represents the three trees that we plant with every purchase, including this Kickstarter campaign.

We are proud to partner with Green Forests Work, a non-profit that plants trees in the Appalachian region in areas that have been deforested due to mining. Even if you don’t back our campaign, we encourage you to donate to GreenForestsWork.org and support their important work!

To find the size that best suits you, take your favorite hoodie and lay it on a flat surface. Compare the measurements of your hoodie with the measurements below. If washed properly (was cold and lay flat to dry) your hoodie should not shrink more than 1-2%. The polyester woven into the fabric maintains shape retention.

In addition to the standard sizes XS-2XL, we are offering BIG & TALL sizes. This includes TALL sizes in Large and X-Large, as well as 3X-5XL. These sizes require new patterns to be created, as well as extra fabric in the manufacturing, and extra shipping charges, due to the additional weight. If you order a BIG & TALL size, you will have to pay an additional charge when you receive your survey. Those ordering TALL sizes will be required to pay an additional $10. Those ordering 3X-5XL will be required to pay an additional $15.

The additional shipping charges added to your pledge for international orders does not include duties, taxes, customs VAT, or any other fees that may be charged by your country. Unfortunately, there are too many variables for us to properly calculate any additional charges. We are sorry for any inconvenience.