[leadin]Halloween is upon us. This year, instead of investing in a cheap costume you’ll use only once, why not drop the dress-up budget on a costume that will keep on giving… one that doubles as outdoors gear.[/leadin]

Spurned by a Gear Junkie Twitter follower who commented on a Kokatat dry suit looking like a perfect Halloween getup, we present here a few options, a half-dozen Halloween costume ideas culled from the Gear Junkie archives that can do trick-or-treat!
In the top image, from left to right, we have the retro-grunge look going with Burton’s GORE–TEX-based U.S. Snowboarding Team 2010 Olympic uniform; the Sea to Summit Packable mesh suit (click and scroll down) with Permethrin treatment, good for flies and scaring small children; and I/O Bio Merino’s Pilot Suit, a base-layer union suit that’ll wick sweat, insulate, and keep you looking like a Ninja running through the night.

Here is the unconventional — but fully surf-ready! — RDT Star Trek wetsuit; Spock ears not included. The uber-cozy — and Mount Everest ready! — Eddie Bauer First Ascent men’s Peak XV Down Suit (click and scroll to end) offers a marshmallow-man look with the added advantage of extreme high-wind protection above 8000 meters. And for speed on the ski slopes as well as that happy All American Skinsuit look outdoors on October 31, the Spyder 2010 Winter Olympic Skier Speed Suit is a viable costume option you might consider hard.

