Stephen Regenold

Hot of the presses, we’ve just posted the Top 10 Product Picks slideshow, based off the new gear we saw at the Outdoor Retailer Winter…

The Gear Junkie crew just returned from Salt Lake City and the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market trade show, a gluttonous spread of outdoors products, multi-story…

These waterproof cases feature unique lever-lock sealers, letting you click to seal the case air-tight. In total, Aquapac makes 40 products, with designs to accommodate…

Red Oxx prides itself on helping customers take as much baggage as legally possible into the airplane. The Safari-Beanos Bag, a square duffle that measures…

This do-all $30 backcountry survival kit—which includes a selection multi-use backwoods curios and life-preserving knickknacks—can be employed to. . . -signal helicopters -start fires -boil…

Lately, I’ve become scientific about something I like to call “adventure eating,” which is a technique of quick calorie consumption for sports like mountaineering and…

Unbeknownst to me, Bic Corporation, the ubiquitous France-based maker of lighters and ballpoint pens, makes kayaks. And, they fold in half! The company’s Yakka kayaks…

Fixed-gear bikes have garnered a small following in the past five years, with urban commuters and bike messengers being some of the earliest adopters. Proponents…

Thule’s Load & Go products manage gear inside your vehicle. Load & Go products, which include pouches, duffle bags, specialized boxes, bags and containers, range…

Pop in a kid, and go. Kid-carrier backpacks can be a godsend for parents looking to stay active in the great outdoors. (Like me, for…

Traction products are far from standard-fare business baggage. Indeed, the line—which includes a backpack, two messenger-style bags and a pair of small pseudo-attaches—borrows design touches…

Last summer I went a bit stark-raving mad. Indeed, for nine days straight I raced through the deserts of Utah in the Primal Quest Adventure…

What the heck is an adventure bike? Well, as this column foretells, they are “a new breed of bicycle made to be ridden in deep…

HOOAH! bars are a crossmarket product created by the U.S. military. In this Gear Junkie column—“Energy bars, the quantitative view”—I review the HOOAH! and a…

A trip to Tijuana used to be required for the procurement of a blade like the Buck Sirus. But this pseudo-switchblade, which has a spring-loaded…

In preparation for a trip to Utah last summer, I went purposefully overboard on the procurement of maps. Indeed, for this project I would end…

Body armor is de rigueur in this sport. Indeed, the sport of riverboarding is a whitewater niche that involves running rapids on your belly with…

In today’s New York Times, I paddle into the “million spindly legs of a mangrove swamp” in search of vine-covered ruins, dropped jewels, crocodiles, and…

Fast and light, in the flesh. . . This climbing gear from C.A.M.P. USA is some of the coolest I’ve tried out in years. Take…