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…
A man named Karl Wischnofske contacted me the other day about an oddball water-walking device called the Aquaskipper, made by the Camas, Washington, company Inventist…
Fleece jackets hover in a mushy middle ground between waterproof-and-breathable shells and sturdy workaday wool sweaters. They’re warm enough for nice sunny winter days, but…
Matisse & Jacks is a small San Francisco company that makes boxed mixes for bake-at-home energy bars, competing against the likes of Clif and PowerBar…
Last summer while racing in Utah, I met Daniel Gray Wilson, a doctoral fellow from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education who studies the psychology of…
Keen Footwear exploded onto the market five years ago, selling millions of its innovative toe-bumper-equipped sandals in its first year of business. Now, Jim Van…
