According to the J.L.Darling Corporation, soggy and illegible paperwork has plagued outdoor writers for decades. As an outdoor writer myself, I concur. Regular paper often…
A professional bike fitter can adjust a bicycle to match a rider’s precise body dimensions to the degree of millimeter increments. And this procedure is…
It’s a bike seat. It’s a pump. It’s the Biologic ZorinPump, a seat-post/bike-pump combo product from U.K.-based Dahon Incorporated. You stand while you pump and…
There really is nothing like a brown-rice-syrup-acai-berry-shelled-hemp- seed-peanut-butter-rolled-rye-flax-seed- cashew-almond-evaporated-cane-liquified- alfalfa-wheat-grass-juice-rice-flour energy bar. Nothing. Nothing but the Probar Superfood Slam bar, that is. . .
Sweet and single — single-speed, that is — the Kona Paddy Wagon is an affordable track-bike-like option for urban riding or mid-distance commuting where hills…
In the newly-announced category of SCUBA bling, Wenger has unveiled the oh-so-aptly named Deep Diver watch, which is safe to ocean plunges up to 1,000…
I’ve long kept a cache of lightweight emergency equipment in the bottom of my backpack, including a space blanket, matches, a compass, fire-starters, water purification,…
I attended the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, Colo., last year, running in the 5K and doing the adventure race, which included 12,000-foot summits, endless…
In the realm of oddball outdoors food, Command Foods’ line of lunchtime oatmeals — including Broccoli Cheese, Tangy Lemon Chick’n, and Vegetable — takes some…
In the guess-what-I-did-last-night file, here’s a kicker: I went surfing behind a speedboat. No, this isn’t wakeboarding. Look close. This is surfing. On a wake.…
I met JJ Reich last week. He’s the “Senior Field Test Coordinator” at North American Hunter and North American Fisherman magazines, where he oversees dozens…
Made for birders, hunters, photographers, star gazers, and maybe rock climbers trying to point out holds high on a face, the IC-UC handheld spotting sight…
This one’s from The Goat, via the Capital Times newspaper in Madison, Wis., where 26-year-old Ryan Lipscomb has performed the ultimate gear test of GETTING…
Keen and Mion have each sent me a pair of water/canyon/river shoes, respectively the Hood River II sandals and the Fast Canyon hybrid-frogfoot-sandal-thingy. Cool designs…
If nothing else, my attempt to climb the 14,179-foot stratovolcano of Mount Shasta last weekend in northern California was a great opportunity to test gear.…
This is my profile of Mandatory Gear, a Minneapolis company that makes some of the lightest-weight backpacking and adventure racing gear available. Indeed, the company’s…
This week, on assignment for New York Times, I’m high up on California’s Mount Shasta, a 14,179-foot stratovolcano that’s the second-highest peak in the Cascade…
