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…
Adventure Lights of Beaconsfield, Quebec, makes lights for all type of flashing, signaling, attention-getting needs, including lights and L.E.D. models for law enforcement, search-and-rescue, the…
