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…
Like duct tape, Gorilla Tape is marketed as a universal salve for quick fix-ups. In the outdoors this means repairing broken poles, patching punctured tarps,…
Continuing the countdown of my top gear picks from the past five years, the Genesis Pharmaceutical Hydropel body lube and Rail Riders Weatherpants come in…
Continuing the countdown of my top gear picks from the past five years, the Pacsafe TravelSafe 100 security pouch and Montrail’s Susitna XCR super trail…
New government-issue color aerial photographs taken between 2003 and 2006 have enabled MyTopo.com to create a new cartographic product, the TopoPhoto map. This hybrid feat…
This is my report on the efforts of a dozen disconnected groups — from area NGOs and independent academic researchers, to international organizations as large…
In a recent story for ForbesTraveler.com on ecologically-friendly lodges, I attempted to look beyond the promotional green-washing that’s becoming common in the tourism trade. Instead,…
Backcountry.com, an online retailer of outdoors equipment, launched an in-house line of technical outerwear earlier this year, including the Cairn Fleece Jacket, a $110 model…
In 1997, a urologist and professor at Boston University School of Medicine named Irwin Goldstein declared: “There are only two kinds of male cyclists —…
A new ultra/trail-running race, the GORE-TEX TransRockies Run, goes through the White River and San Isabel National Forests, through the town of Leadville, and finally…
This image has apparently been all over the Internet/blogosphere, but, well. . . wow, worth putting here as well. This is Tahiti’s Teahupoo break, apparently…
I met Nicholas Woodman of GoPro in Munich, Germany, two years back, when his innovative wrist-hugging camera was nominated for an ISPO Brand New award.…
Rail Riders recently interviewed The Gear Junkie, and here’s the full Q&A, complete with ramblings on existential exhaustion, emotional breakdown and enlightenment. Questions in the…
