Soundtrack to the Wild: Turtlebox Ranger Bluetooth Speaker Review

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I am a music lover. Sometimes the only music I want is the sound of trout slurping mayflies and a river flowing softly around rocks. But there are a thousand other times when music elevates my fishing—like when I played Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner to teams of anglers crouching and running toward departing helicopters at Pluma Lodge. Or when I played the entire Tool album Fear Inoculum to drown out the noise of constantly passing trains on the Juniata River. Or when Bob Marley helped us pass time on the ocean flats near Sugarloaf Key while waiting for strings of tarpon. The Turtlebox Ranger is at home in all of these abusive environments—in the bottom of my raft, inside a flats skiff, or in a dugout canoe with a long-tail outboard for propulsion.

With the Ranger, you can take your music with you anywhere, and share it with a companion to pass the time while waiting for the tide to change, the sun to lower, and for the bite to turn on. In this photo, the Ranger is strapped to the outside of my Patagonia Guidewater Waterproof Backpack on a remote river in Tsimane Indigenous Territory in Bolivia (tsimanelodge.com). We waded, swam, and bushwhacked with it in the wild, and played Hermanos Gutiérrez as background music during cocktail hour back at the lodge.

The Ranger is the smallest Turtlebox yet, and at approximately 3"x3"x8" it fits in nearly any water bottle or rod tube holder. It weighs only 2.4 pounds and you can carabiner it to anything.

$250 | turtleboxaudio.com

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