“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…
My story on “America’s Baddest Rapids,” which got picked up by MSNBC, polls whitewater guides, pro boaters, and product designers to establish a list of…
Yes, these are crampons. Well, sort of. Pedestrian crampons. But with 10 spikes, each one 3/8-inch long, and made of stainless steel, the Kahtoola MICROSpikes…
In last Friday’s New York Times I wrote about wakesurfing, a behind-the-boat sport that employs five-foot (or shorter) surfboards and specially weighted boats that create…
