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…
A story I wrote for yesterday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune focuses on slacklining and its rising star with athletes beyond the climber mold. Indeed, Joe Kuster…
The long-awaited Gear Junkie column on Newton Running’s Gravity Shoes debuts today in the Billings Gazette, one of my syndicate newspapers. The initial blog and…
Rogaining, an Australian offshoot of orienteering invented in the 1970s, puts teams of two to four people on a choose-your-own-adventure course in wilderness dotted with…
Inov-8’s new Race Pro 12 is an “elite lightweight hydration pack” made for trail running, cycling, adventure racing, and other off-trail excursions where speed is…
It was late July when I joined Dave Hajdasz, a contributor to www.swimmingholes.info, to tour some natural water-slide sites around Vermont on a travel assignment…
