At CNOC Outdoors, we like to go outdoors and the gear that we make is all about that: making our adventures the best possible, simple, enjoyable, fulfilling and sustainable. CNOC is not just a company, it is a community of like minded people, developing, creating and recreating together. CNOC - Pronounced K'nok, means hill or a mount in Gaelic and old Irish: A natural elevation of the land surface, usually rounded.