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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…

U.K.-based Off The Fence Productions will film a TV show this year in the wilds of Georgia that’s part game show, part outdoor-adventure production. The…

Twelve sports in one day to celebrate the new year of 2012. That was the premise of a recent feat taken on by Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers…

For the second time, five amateur photogs have landed a prize from Köppen via our contest on a new section of the site, “Weekday Warrior,”…

The Mayans might have thought the world would end in 2012. Mean time, a closer onslaught is coming in the form of the season’s biggest…