Hipster marketing run amok or beer drinkers' delight? Chrome teams up with the "Champagne of Beers" for a co-branded collection, including a Miller Highlife-emblazoned messenger bag.

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Space-age design meets wilderness utility in an upcoming backpack line from Terra Nova Equipment. The U.K. company's to-be-released Quasar series packs employ a crinkly polyethylene material usually used in yacht sails.

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Made of a sleek Dyneema fabric, the Minimal Backpack from New York City-based Outlier is marketed as an urban day-pack that is "backcountry tough."

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Gear Junkie editor Stephen Regenold breaks down the equipment he used on a recent "fast and light" hike in New York's Catskill Mountains. Carbon trekking poles, arms warmers, and a "bottom-less" sleeping bag were among the items in his kit.

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Lightweight yet rugged and large, the to-be-released Crown 60 is set for fully-geared weekend backpacking trips or minimalists who are loaded with the bulk of food to trek long and far.

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Writes Gear Junkie, "In the gear-that's-changed-my-life category, the line item of 'small accessible pockets on backpacks' may seem odd." This post details a half-dozen products that offer a simple upgrade in backpack accessibility to keep gear always at the ready on the go outside.

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Quality, kid-size backpacking and camping gear from Deuter makes it easier to get the little ones outdoors. Our writer and his two sons, ages seven and 10, give the gear a test.

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Last night, at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, amid dinosaur bones and live stingrays undulating in a shallow pool, Columbia Sportswear previewed its spring 2012 product line. Gear Junkie gives a run-down of the ceremonies and the company's unique new wares.

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Founded by a group of working adventure-photographers, F-Stop is a pack company that markets to photojournalists as well as serious amateur shooters. Our resident adventure photog, T.C. Worley, gives an F-Stop pack a full field test.

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Combine facets from Green Beret training camp, adventure racing, and a macho, male-bounding weekend, and you get the GORUCK Challenge, a boot-camp-style overnight feat. Our writer participated in a GORUCK event last month.

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