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Love, Zen, trust, and really good balance are themes in a new video featuring Jason and Chelsey Magness, two of the founding members of Team…

GearJunkie spent a long weekend in Vail, Colo., reporting on the annual Summer Teva Games. Here are a few final images from the event, one…

We rarely cover business news. But an industry announcement this afternoon caught our attention. Vibram USA Inc.’s President and CEO, Tony Post, has announced he…

Immense crowds of screaming spectators this past weekend at the Teva Mountain Games sealed the deal for us. The “sport” of slacklining, an activity born…

Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers’ members (the YogaSlackers half!) have just released a new video, “How to Highline.” The setting is a taut line of webbing strung between…

GearJunkie’s Sean McCoy is reporting from Vail, Colo., this week at the 11th annual Teva Mountain Games. Here he files a report and a few…

GearJunkie.com is onsite in Vail, Colo., this week to cover the 11th annual Teva Mountain Games, a festival touted as the “nation’s largest celebration of…

A full day of adventure and pure life well lived in Portland, Ore., brought to you by GearTrade.com and Matthias Giraud, aka “Super Frenchie.” You…

Ten years ago from this spring, in 2002, GearJunkie was founded as a syndicated newspaper column. To celebrate 10 years of outdoor product testing, we…

In celebration of its 35th anniversary, Outside magazine is seeking proposals for its first annual Adventure Grant, a $10,000 endowment “to help fund a smart,…

At a remote sheep farm in New Zealand last month, two members of Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers got an inside peek at where our favorite outdoor fabric,…

Thanks to all who came out this past weekend to the Outdoor Adventure Expo, where we gave away $5,000 in gear, including shoes, jackets, packs,…

In celebration of 10 years in business, GearJunkie founder Stephen Regenold is presenting at the Outdoor Adventure Expo in Minneapolis this weekend.

The twice-annual “Gear of the Year” awards were announced by Outside magazine this week. Here is the full list.

Head to the Outdoor Adventure Expo in Minneapolis this weekend, April 27 to 29, to grab some gratis gear from GearJunkie.com! Details in this post…

Did we say Free? Yes, we did. Free socks. Follow these three steps to get a no-strings free pair of SmartWool’s new PhD outdoor socks…

You’re naked in the desert. The sun beats down. But you have a GPS in hand, and there’s a pre-plotted route on the device to…

Our contest with SmartWool asked readers to fill in the blank on the statement “I envy merino sheep and their fine wool because. . .”.…

Mountain axes from Black Diamond Equipment and the paintbrush of a local artist were the necessary pieces to put together a set of wall-mountable trophies…

Fine merino wool, from head to toes. That’s the proposition with our contest this week, sponsored by the sheep-based brand SmartWool. Enter to win one…

Next month, GearJunkie.com will launch a new industry and outdoor world initiative, the Epic Award. This post gives background and a call to nominate anyone…

Last month, we asked two GearJunkie race team members to film a typical weekday training session in their home town of Bend, Ore. They ran,…

Anyone who has read GearJunkie for years knows of our affinity toward the Buff. A crate of the hard-to-categorize “headwear” pieces have arrived at GearJunkie’s…