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$38 Water Bottle: Nau/Klean Kanteen

Made of stainless steel, food-grade silicone and sustainably-harvested bamboo, the new Nau/Klean Kanteen collaboration bottle is advertised as the most environmentally safe, non-toxic water bottle on the market. It's among the industry's most pricey bottles, too.

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Primer: Water Purification in the Outdoors

Clean drinking water in the wilderness is never guaranteed. In this roundup review, Gear Junkie looks at a half-dozen purification products made for the outdoors.

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Campfire Pie Irons

Cook it up! Gear Junkie reviews pie irons, a classic campfire cooking tool. Just add buttered bread and filling, cook on coals, and open to eat a true outback delight.

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'Birdseed' Energy Bar

A compressed block of nuts and seeds -- flax, pumpkin, sesame, sunflower -- make Raw Crunch bars appear to be made for the birds. Gear Junkie takes a taste test.

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Bite-Size Energy 'Solids'

Sidewalk chalk or energy food? Gear Junkie tests "the strangest energy food he has yet to try," Hammer Nutrition's chalky, hard Perpetuem Solids.

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Adventure Racing Food Plan

How do you eat for a week-long wilderness expedition race? Gear Junkie gives a peek inside his race pack for a few tricks from the field.

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'Glass-Like' Bike Bottle

Specialized Bicycles' new water bottle has an infused layer of silicon dioxide to promote "the pure taste of drinking from a glass." Gear Junkie gave the bottle a harsh test in Patagonia this month.

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Holiday-Theme Energy Food

Some Christmas spirit with your energy gel? Clif Bar & Company and GU Energy Labs unveiled holiday-themed energy foodstuffs last month.

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Interview: Founder of Clif Bar

Clif Bar & Company celebrates 20 years in the energy-bar business next month. Gear Junkie interviewed the company's founder about Clif's origins and the future of energy food.

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CRUNCH Granola Bars

In a direct affront at a market long dominated by General Mills and its Nature Valley line, Clif Bar & Company debuted CRUNCH granola bars this summer. Gear Junkie gives CRUNCH a taste test.

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Orienteering race this wkend. Good times in northern MN! (Fell in swamp; cut up legs; ran prob. 15K in woods looking for orange flags. . .)