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.
High-gloss portraiture by David Gabrys highlights the mud-caked glory that is the Almanzo 100, a gravel-road bike race held annually in the steep bluff country…
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Last week, Gear Junkie writer T.C. Worley reported from Fruita, Colo., and the town’s namesake mountain-bike festival. Today we post Worley’s video on the trip,…
Rio de Janeiro-based Outside magazine (Brazil edition), a sister of the Sante Fe-based original, has picked up Gear Junkie’s weekly syndicated column. Language skills in…
A pro mountain athlete who is also among the planet’s most prolific outdoor adventure photographers, Jimmy Chin exists in a rarefied world of mountain climbs…
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Gear Junkie ran the Blue Ridge Marathon last month, cited as “America’s toughest.” This post breaks down the road-running shoes, apparel and equipment he used…
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Combine high-output bushwhacking and wilderness navigation mixed with sections where you run on trail — that’s “wilderness running,” an esoteric activity most often seen in…
The 2011 adventure racing season is in full swing. GearJunkie.com gets an exclusive interview with the current reigning adventure-racing champions, the Minnesota-based Team WEDALI. Gear…
Touted to combine the “versatility of a utility trailer” with attributes found in a haul-behind unit made for gear, SPACE Trailers are hitch-ready equipment haulers…
Prayer flags, yaks, mountain climbers, and insanely tall peaks. It’s the start of the spring 2011 climbing season in the Himalayas. Gear Junkie offers a…
