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.
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The makers of this strange bike tout an elliptical exercise machine workout with wheels. A new “high-performance” model released this month is pegged for the…
This week on Outside magazine Gear Junkie founder Stephen Regenold, a veteran adventure racer, writes on his “top 10” can’t-race-without equipment list. This post links…
And the winners are. . . Outside magazine has announced its winter 2011 “Gear of the Year” awards, a primo kit of cold-weather equipment recommendations…
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GearJunkie correspondents are walking the long and gear-cluttered aisles in Las Vegas today, where the annual Interbike International Expo has just kicked off. Here’s a…
Our very own adventure team, Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers, took 2nd place overall in the Gold Rush Mother Lode this past weekend! This post includes a short…
