In this column on gear trends in skiing and snowboarding for the ’08/’09 season, I highlight a jacket with embedded electronics, self-tinting goggles, and a…
Click here for the Gear Junkie’s Holiday Gift Guide, a 12-product spread of outdoors-oriented gift suggestions, from ski bags and knives to a carbon-fiber travel…
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’ 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…
1. Petzl Signal Emergency Light It weighs just 8/10ths of an ounce. But this tiny “multidirectional performance safety light” can make you visible to traffic…
A new site feature, the Gear Junkie Field Test, puts outdoors equipment into the hands of hard-core users — from professional mountain guides to outdoors…
In the world of outdoor adventure, weight can make the difference between a good time and an ‘I-wish-I-was-sitting-at-home-watching-college-football’ time. And Sierra Designs, a Boulder, Colo.-based…
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…
To the uninitiated, ice fishing seems improbable, wacky, and dangerous. But every winter, more than 2 million hardy northerners go to their place on the…
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…
Made for backcountry skiers, climbers and backpackers, the Orbit Lantern is a pocket-size, collapsible mini lantern that shines enough light to prepare dinner, organize gear,…
