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Winter Running: Unorthodox Advice

Gear Junkie is a big fan of winter running. These 10 tips reveal techniques and gear suggestions gleaned from years of running on the snow…

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GPS-Enhanced Goggles

With an in-goggle LCD “dashboard” that displays speed and descent data via an integrated GPS device, the Transcend goggles offer fighter-jet-pilot style readouts in realtime…

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Contest: ‘Knives and a Kayak!’

Continuing in the sprit of the season, as a part of our ‘SPOT the Holiday’ promotion we’re giving away an Old Town Kayak and six…

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Line’s Travelling (Ski) Circus

Rough, low-budget, grassroots, and chock full of young skiers pushing limits with no pretense and little concern for anything other than fun. That’s a Line’s…

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Blacksmith-Made Hatchet Test

Chop it! Gear Junkie tests a high-end Gränsfors Bruks hatchet, which was made in Sweden by a blacksmith, against a cheap axe produced for Coghlan’s.

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Chairlift Art for a Cause

The Canyons ski resort in Utah recently dismantled its historic 42-year-old Golden Eagle chairlift. Artists descended to recreate the chairs for a unique “chairitable” cause.

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IKEA Bike

In a generous act, the Swedish retail giant gave 12,400 employees a new bike this month. But shield your eyes, dear gear junkies, for the…

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Winners! ‘SPOT Holiday’ contests

Big response to our ‘SPOT the Holiday’ promo last week, where we gave away a pair of Vibram FiveFingers shoes and held a live Treasure…

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Barefoot Running Shoe Guide

Gear Junkie presents the ‘A to Z’ on the barefoot and minimalist running shoe market, including a cursory look at 2010/2011 models and all things…

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Burton’s ‘After School Special’

Burton’s $300 package includes a board, bindings, boots, a travel bag + a lesson and a lift ticket. Ideal for young kids who want to…

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Gear for 2 Million Feet

Greg Hill is a man on a mission to ski 2 million total vertical feet by his own power during the calendar year of 2010.…

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Chris King Espresso Tamper

The Chris King Espresso Tamper is not just the product of a bike designer dabbling in the coffee world. It was made as a collaboration…

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Team GJ Heading back to Patagonia!

Captained by Gear Junkie founder Stephen Regenold, and with the YogaSlackers adventure group as teammates, the four-person Team GearJunkie.com is heading back to Chile and…

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Ultimate Winter Shoe

La Sportiva’s CROSSOVER GTX makes a stride toward the title of “ultimate winter shoe.” Gear Junkie gives the $150 trail runner a two-week trial run.

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SPOT on a Keychain

The latest product from SPOT LLC, an “asset protection” package made for the boating market, has GPS-enabling controls that fit on a key fob.

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Babes in Bike Helmets Calendar

Prohab Helmet Society, an organization in Vancouver, B.C., has a 2011 calendar that strives to make supporting helmet use on bikes sexy and fun.

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VFF Contest, part II

For our ‘SPOT the Holiday’ promotion this week, we’re giving away another pair of Vibram FiveFingers minimalist shoes. Enter to win the TrekSport or Bikila…

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Winner! FiveFingers Contest

With more than 1,000 responses to our latest ‘SPOT the Holiday’ contest, which gave away a pair of Vibram FiveFingers shoes, we were somewhat overwhelmed…

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Magnet-Equipped Jacket/Vest

Touting the uncommon feature of “removable raglan sleeves attached with magnets,” the Versa proves to be a solid cycling and aerobic shell jacket from Sugoi.…

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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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$4,000 Sunglasses!

Oakley’s Space-Age sunglasses are made of solid carbon fiber with a titanium spine. Total weight? 42 grams.

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‘SPOT Holiday’ FiveFingers Prize

‘Tis the season for. . . FiveFingers shoes? That’s right, for our “SPOT the Holiday” promotion this week and next we’re giving away two pair…

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Headphone-Equipped Hoodie

Never leave the house without your earbuds. Rusty’s Wired Series sweatshirts include embedded earphones on the shirts’ drawcords. Machine-washable, to boot!

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Jones Hovercraft Snowboard

Jones Snowboards reinvents the powder-board game with its Hovercraft, a deep-snow ride that won’t break the bank.

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Extreme Ski. . . Michigan!

Mount Bohemia, a tiny ski resort at the tip of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, offers chutes, glades, cliffs, and other forms of expert terrain heretofore absent…

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Fold-Up Paratrooper Bike

The foldable Paratrooper bike was originally built for parachuting soldiers. Today, Montague sells it to the U.S. military and common citizens alike.

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World’s Lightest Ski Bindings?

No, that’s not a bear trap. It’s La Sportiva’s svelte and ultra-light backcountry ski binding, new to the U.S. and Canadian markets next month!

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‘SPOT the Holiday’ Contests

Win big this Holiday Season! With Thanksgiving, “Black Friday,” and other holiday foshizzle coming to light this week, our ‘SPOT the Holiday’ promotion is humming!

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Backcountry Powder Park

“Park features with powder landings” — that’s the premise at Smith Optics’ private freeride paradise, an 800-acre park in Idaho on the site of an…

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‘Top 10’ Gear of 2010

Drum roll. . . GearJunkie’s annual ‘Top 10’ Gear picks award the best of the best outdoors equipment after a year of use and abuse…

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