Gear Junkie

Stephen Regenold -- a world-traveling adventurer/journalist with a home base in Minneapolis, Minnesota -- is The Gear Junkie. Regenold is a skier, climber, cyclist, orienteer, adventure racer, father, husband, dog owner, karaoke aficionado and all-around thrill-seeker. Expeditions and elaborate equipment tests over the past three years took Regenold to corners as far afield as Ucluelet, British Colombia; Moab, Utah; Kyoto, Japan; North Dakota; Germany's highest peak, the Zugspitze; sunny San Luis Obispo, Calif. (twice!); the summit of Mt. Rainier; Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario; Quintana Roo, Mexico; and the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia (to name a few). Regenold still manages to spend time with his wife, Tara, their new baby boy, Charles, 2-year-old daughter, Gwen, and a 90-pound Weimaraner named Rodney.

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Regenold is a freelance correspondent for New York Times. See an archive of his Times work here:
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=regenold&srchst=nyt

What makes The Gear Junkie different?
Regenold has been active in outdoors journalism (and all the corresponding sports and adventures that go with the gig) for several years. He was the founding editor of Vertical Jones magazine, a climbing publication (1997 - 2001). In addition to the weekly Gear Junkie newspaper column, he writes on outdoors gear and adventure travel for publications including New York Times, Forbes Traveler, Los Angeles Times and Popular Science magazine.

Regenold tests gear to death and gives honest positive and negative reviews -- no regurgitated press releases here.

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About TheGearJunkie.com
GearJunkie.com is a site devoted to the outdoors, health, fitness, adventure travel, and all the gear and equipment associated with those pursuits. It is based off a nationally-syndicated newspaper column of the same name written by freelance journalist Stephen Regenold. Mike Santi serves as Online Publisher, John Peacock is Director of Technology and Patrick Petschel is our Marketing Director. Visit our contact page to reach any of us.

The web site -- which launched Sept. 18, 2006 -- includes:
» Daily Dose blog
» Streaming video gear reviews
» Weekly column update
» Interactive slideshow features
» The Gear Junkie column archive
» Feature stories ("Gear Junkie Adventures")
» Weekly Gear Giveaway contest

About The Gear Junkie newspaper column
The Gear Junkie newspaper column, which debuted in 2002 in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and now appears weekly across the country, is featured in the following publications: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Albuquerque Journal, Spokane Spokesman-Review, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Greensboro News-Record, Redding Record Searchlight, Billings Gazette, Casper Star-Tribune, among others.