The Hercules is the “first true mountaineering boot certified for wildland fire fighting,” according to manufacturer Cosmas, an Italian boot maker. It’s made to cater…
After a long hiatus from trail mix, I am back into the nutty/fruity energy-food concoctions. Specifically, Bear Naked Inc. of La Jolla, Calif., makes a…
Sifting through the antiseptic dirt of Chile’s Atacama Desert, Carl Schweser, a traveler on an Earthwatch expedition, once came face to face with a mummy.…
Cyclocross is an up and coming discipline where off-road courses with tight turns, muddy slopes, steep banks, sand pits and manmade obstacles make up the…
In a “quest for innovation and environmentally conscious design,” NEMO Equipment Inc. of Nashua, N.H., recently unveiled plans to manufacture thin tent poles made of…
The Omnivore, a new cigar-size flashlight from Gerber, is battery agnostic, meaning it will take power from any of the varying combinations of AA, AAA…
My story this week on ForbesTraveler — “High-Tech Travel Gear” — covers a subgenre of gear that’s emerged from the outdoors, technology and travel-goods industries…
Petzl’s latest headlamp offering, a $100 LED model due out in January, offers light-level customization to let users tweak and finely tune the brightness setting…
In a story this week for ForbesTraveler I polled nine adventure-travel writers to discover destinations not often featured in print. Read on to discover where…
No black helicopters yet in sight, but this column covers a new DARPA-funded energy-density technology now trickling to the outdoors industry in the guise of…
Helmet maker Giro Sport Design has jumped into the sport-eyewear category, and innovation goes by the name of the patent-pending Pop Top system in the…
Stand-up paddling, or SUP, is among the biggest trends this year in board sports, even in landlocked locales like Minnesota. This feature story highlights the…
In this fourth and final look at new gear from the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show I cover a collapsible kayak, a Schoeller-ensconced mountaineering…
The news fallout from the Outdoor Retailer trade show — which I covered extensively last week — has garnered mentioned on TheStreet.com, a popular business…
In this third look at the latest gear from the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show I have uncovered stylish sunglasses made for fishermen, water…
Not your typical Stephen Regenold adventure-journalism fare here, but in today’s New York Times I wrote about the hobby of rendezvous re-enactment, a gig where…
Since the dawn of motorized transit, deep jungle and high mountains haven’t stopped humans from trying to lay roads through the planet’s most treacherous terrain.…
This short article features five over-the-top athletics products that’ll purportedly be employed by Olympians next week in Beijing. My favorite is the Nike track shoe…
