Preparing for outdoor adventure, be it backpacking, biking or mountain climbing, can require ample time training indoors. Here are a few pieces of apparel –…
This 344-page textbook is a guide to all things backcountry and skiing. It covers topics from avalanche safety and navigation to gear, ski-mountaineering, fitness information…
Rite in the Rain paper has roots in water-resistant paper first developed for the Pacific Northwest logging industry in the 1920s. Today, you can write,…
The much-talked-about SPOT satellite messenger is a first for outdoors users: The GPS-based locator beacon blips text-message data and lat/long coordinates to emergency services, friends…
Calling all campfire cooks. Redwood Creek Wines is sponsoring a unique cooking contest with a $10,000 prize. Last year’s winner, Leah Lyon of Oklahoma, pulled…
This final trip report about my Norwegian escape last week is photo-heavy, with Kvitfjellet and Smorbottentin, two magnificent mountains of the Romsdal Alps, grabbing most…
Just received issue No. 2 of The Ski Journal, the self-appointed “world’s highest quality ski publication.” But indeed this glossy magazine is pretty, a bright…
The new HexaLite camp chairs from Crazy Creek offer a campfire seating option for backpackers starting at less than 1 pound. By employing hexagonal-cored closed…
The Alpha LT by Arc’teryx is a pricey and top-end shell jacket made for mission-critical mountain situations where a thin sheen of nylon could literally…
The impressive spread that is Novara’s 2008 bike lineup includes cyclocross rides, full-suspension mountain bikes for women and men, a foldable travel model, a “safari”…
The Go-More-Pile jacket from Nau Inc. rides an increasingly popular aesthetic of clean design and subtle detail that works to similar effect in an outdoors…
