Stephen Regenold is the founder of GearJunkie, which he launched as a newspaper column at age 25 in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Regenold cut his teeth producing a quarterly ‘zine at the University of Minnesota’s Journalism School and then as a reporter for a business magazine.
Regenold launched GearJunkie.com in 2006, and for years, he covered the outdoors and adventure space, including as a correspondent for the New York Times. With the NYT, Regenold published more than 50 articles, writing first-person accounts from remote geographies spanning from northern Ontario to the Actun Tunichil Muknal cave in Belize.
Stephen is also a proud adventure racer. His semi-pro team then won the U.S. Adventure Racing Championship in 2012. Regenold has trekked to Mount Everest and climbed the highest volcano in Iceland. He staked first-ascent climbs in Canada and also (hilariously) won the 2013 Brompton U.S. Championships on a tiny, fold-up British bike.
GearJunkie was eventually acquired by AllGear Digital in 2020, and Stephen remains on as VP of Strategy. Beyond work and the outdoors, Regenold is the father of five kids and serves as a coach on their school’s NICA mountain bike team. He and his wife, Tara, live in Minneapolis.
Live and onstage this weekend at the Outdoor Adventure Expo in Minneapolis, Gear Junkie founder Stephen Regenold will present the publication’s 2011 ‘Top 10 Gear’…
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Gear Junkie founder Stephen Regenold tested more than two-dozen jackets in 2011 for this site as well as Outside magazine, for which he coordinated the…
We’re staking a claim: The Gear Junkie’s “Treasure Hunt: Roanoke” event is the biggest outdoor gear giveaway consolidated each year anywhere in the world. Here…
A crisp morning in downtown Roanoke, Va., welcomed serious racers and first-time participants to our second annual “Treasure Hunt: Roanoke” event. Here is our recap…
It took a couple years and more than 3,000 “tweets,” but today GearJunkie’s Twitter account passed a milestone with the addition of its 10,000th follower.
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