Participation in marathon running continues to soar in the U.S., where last year about 410,000 people completed the 26.2-mile challenge. But is this populist tilt…
Designed for day-long excursions including mountain trekking, hiking, peak bagging, adventure racing, and the like, Gregory’s Z22 manages up to 25 pounds of cargo in…
Single-speed bikes are the cycling trend from left field, the impossibly illogical populist fad that has in the past couple years put hundreds of thousands…
What would happen if 12,000 blogs published posts discussing the same issue, on the same day? That’s the idea behind Blog Action Day (www.blogactionday.org), which…
Mike Hanson, a 42-year-old attorney from St. Louis Park, Minn., has plans to take a multi-month hiatus this coming spring to hike the 2,174-mile Appalachian…
This review is about pills, underwear, an ultra-violet-light-emitting device, and most of all clean water. Indeed, if you don’t wanna get Legionnaires’ Disease (or diarrhea,…
“Boots off. Happy on.” That’s Zinetic Inc.’s slogan for its line of unisex pocket slippers for the outdoors. Kind of (somehow) sexy sounding I thought…
In a recently-published academic paper titled “Energy harvesting from a backpack instrumented with piezoelectric shoulder straps,” mechanical engineers from Michigan Technological University and Arizona State…
