SteriPEN Adventurer Review

This review is about pills, underwear, an ultra-violet-light-emitting device, and most of all clean water. Indeed, if you don’t wanna get Legionnaires’ Disease (or diarrhea,…

MSNBC — Big Game Fishing

I rarely write about fishing. But Forbes approached me last month wanting a story on a niche within the fishing world — so-called big game…

Gear Giveaway is Back!

It was one year ago this month that we launched TheGearJunkie.com. To celebrate, we’re starting up a new weekly gear giveaway contest where you can…

Happy 30th, CORDURA!

Ah, CORDURA. For outdoorsy folks, this is the fabric of our lives. A tough nylon hybrid used in everything from caving suits (see image at…

Clip-Shot Camera Holder

Lyndon Wilson, a machinist from Noxon, Mont., rang me up last week to introduce his Clip-Shot camera holder. The product is essentially a small clamp…

Newton Running Shoe Review

Innovation in the realm of running shoes often comes in the form of new colors, added padding, or subtle — sometimes gimmicky — design tweaks…

Zinetic Pocket Slippers

“Boots off. Happy on.” That’s Zinetic Inc.’s slogan for its line of unisex pocket slippers for the outdoors. Kind of (somehow) sexy sounding I thought…

Beer Run

The Hash House Harriers are a drinking club with a running problem. That’s according to a man known as Bob-Shiggy-Bob, who I met last month…

Piezoelectric Pack

In a recently-published academic paper titled “Energy harvesting from a backpack instrumented with piezoelectric shoulder straps,” mechanical engineers from Michigan Technological University and Arizona State…

The Stick

The Stick has been around for a while. I’ve seen guys hawking it at those trade-fair venues set up before marathons and tris for years.…

Slacklining on the Rise

A story I wrote for yesterday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune focuses on slacklining and its rising star with athletes beyond the climber mold. Indeed, Joe Kuster…

MSNBC — “10 Best Climbs”

My story on “10 Best Rock Climbs in the U.S.” got picked up today by MSNBC. For this story, originally written for ForbesTraveler.com, I interviewed…

Digital HERO 3 column

The Digital HERO 3 from GoPro (www.goprocamera.com) was created to take the hassle out of capturing Kodak moments — as well as video — in…

Rogaine!

Rogaining, an Australian offshoot of orienteering invented in the 1970s, puts teams of two to four people on a choose-your-own-adventure course in wilderness dotted with…

Inov-8 Race Pro 12 Pack

Inov-8’s new Race Pro 12 is an “elite lightweight hydration pack” made for trail running, cycling, adventure racing, and other off-trail excursions where speed is…

Velodrome Track-Bike Racing

“My bike has no brakes and just one gear. But I’m pedaling with all I’ve got, tucked and spinning, breathing hard. Hands clenched on drop…

SPOT Satellite Messenger

I blogged on this last week in my OR Show wrap-up, but the PLB-like device deserves a bit more attention. Indeed, the SPOT Satellite Messenger…

America’s Baddest Rapids

My story on “America’s Baddest Rapids,” which got picked up by MSNBC, polls whitewater guides, pro boaters, and product designers to establish a list of…

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