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…
JUMP-STARTING a running regimen is a springtime rite for recreational joggers across the country. But instead of pounding pavement, millions now sprint into the woods,…
