G7 Pod Portaledge... It's released.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxIFnezDLSM/

Looks rigid enough to stand on?

mpech wrote:

How many people sleep in sub freezing conditions on a portaledge? My guess is less than 20 in the whole world every year....

Really?  Never been to the Valley in early spring or late Fall?   I’ve climbed in sub freezing temps in Zion with a ledge.  Nighttime temps on many walls drop below freezing in the shoulder season when there are lots of parties on the walls.  

Its a full insulated 4-season pad? 

Andrew Vink wrote: Its a full insulated 4-season pad? 

I'm not saying you're lazy, but I am saying your question is one a person too lazy to actually look for information themself would ask. 

It took me all of 30 seconds to click the link given on the first page of this thread and scroll down the landing page to find this answer to your question. 

"The G7 POD is a four-season synthetic insulated ledge saving you the weight and cost of an additional sleeping mat"


Edit: or to click on your profile and see this

Also if they are using drop stitch technology or something similar at provides a very rigid platform.   Self bailing rafts use the same type of technology and they are very rigid even when exposed to frigid water temps.  
I haven’t looked too closely at these ledges but I have to laugh when reading the comments of naysayers about material not being up to snuff and losing air or not being rigid enough.  These issues have all been hammered out in other areas like packrafts and sleeping pads.   It’s laughable to think they wouldn’t have thought long and hard about these issues before bringing it to market.  Not to say they are indestructible but come on, give them a little more credit than that. 

Anonymous wrote: Too many Kevin's in this thread for my taste.

Impossible!!  There can never be too many Kevin's

Anonymous wrote: Too many Kevin's in this thread for my taste.

Not nearly enough Andrews yet... We need to get those numbers up.

Well there must be quite a few believers as they really rocked it!

I want that bigwalls book stretch goal!

Anyone hear any new updates and/or receive their g7 pods yet?

James Donigan wrote: Anyone hear any new updates and/or receive their g7 pods yet?

Not me...

Waiting anxiously.

James Donigan wrote: Anyone hear any new updates and/or receive their g7 pods yet?

Heard from them yesterday via email in response to my update request

"Hi Kevin,
Batch one got sent to our lead designer in Squamish for final inspection.
It had a couple minor details our design wanted fixed. We are only ok with the highest quality product. A full batch with corrections will be shipped on the 16th of this month.
Thanks for the continued support,
G7 Team"

I believe they've said elsewhere that each batch will be 50 orders but I might be missremembering

^ Thanks for passing that along, Kevin

I dug around a little on the kickstarter page and it looks like they responded to a few inquiries stating the 50 pod batches. I was also able to navigate around to view my pledge and see my queue in the orders. 

Concerning moisture/ice crystals inside upon inflation,

I have an XTherm air mat and I always use the inflation bag every time. This way I’m never blowing moisture into my mat. It seems faster anyway, and I don’t get light headed trying to blow up my mat at high elevations. The inflation bag doubles as a stuff sack for food or clothes also, as well as a pillow at night. So I have no reason not to bring it and use it.

The G7 comes with an inflation bag, and i’ll probably do the same.

Edit: I just looked, I am order #95. I’m starting to lose hope that it will arrive before Christmas. Bummer. 

#4 hasn’t shipped. Would rather they ship a great finished product when it’s ready though.

^ totally agree

Can't wait to see more on these. As you cats get yours, please post up some pics.

If you fly to big wall locations, a regular portaledge is painful and expensive to tote around. If you net off the weight of carrying a sleeping mat, these are crazy light compared with a standard ledge. 

I use a similar inflation bag for my two-person packraft, they are quite fast and efficient.

Looks like a great piece of kit!

Japan-john 

I'm backer #102 and my partner is #148. From the beginning we were looking to use these ledges for an expedition in mid-January. I understand delays, but I suspect I'm not alone in wishing there would be a little bit more proactive communication and transparency.

The last Kickstarter Update was November 14th and indicated the first batch would ship in late November and more batches would ship every two weeks. It didn't indicate batch size. The last Grade VII Facebook post was November 16th and their last Instagram post was November 9th and neither mentioned ship dates/delays.

Fingers crossed!!!

If anyone reading this has received, or receives, their ledge, could you please post up when it arrived and your backer #?

I'm backer #2 and was told my Pod would ship Monday of this week. If it has shipped, I have not received notification or a tracking number. Once I get notification I'll post up