Vew-Do Flow balance board

The best training for an outdoor sport or activity — say snowboarding, as one example — is to simply get outside and do it. But…

Forbes story on Travel Gear

My story this week on ForbesTraveler.com highlights a dozen new outdoors- and travel-oriented products, including a helmet cam, a $459 sports watch, and a desktop…

Sender Films — THE SHARP END

Sender Films’ latest, “The Sharp End,” is a vividly-filmed and heart-pounding hour of rock climbing, alpine and ice ascents, slack-lining and BASE jumping at crags…

Top 10 Gear List – 2008

Dozens of trips, hundreds of hours of training, and a year of product testing has led to these conclusions, my Top 10 Gear of the…

Longboard Innovations

The sport of longboarding is a rising trend with active adults. No longer is this sport limited to the realm of the teenager, and no…

BELA-Olhao sardines

It’s a little strange popping open a small tin filled with oily fish that still have bones and scales intact. Sure, the heads and tails…

Turn your iPhone into a GPS unit

Navionics, a Wareham, Mass.-based electronic cartography and navigation company, launched an iPhone app that turns your phone into a charting tool. The Navionics Mobile lets…

New Clif Bar Flavors

I’m a self-proclaimed skeptic of most things — especially if it’s food that “tastes like cardboard,” which is a saying some people ascribe to the…

Forbes — Rock Formations Story

From Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick to the famous chalk arches of Etretat in Normandy, France, my story today on ForbesTraveler.com — “20 STUNNING ROCK…

Gear Giveaway at TrustyPony

Prizes like a LowePro laptop/camera backpack and Guyot Designs backpacking dinnerwear are up for grabs this week at TrustyPony. Just make a comment and you’ll…

The Runner’s Heart

Common cardiovascular wisdom says running can do only good for the heart. But a study at a German clinic has linked marathon runners to the…

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