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Click here for the Gear Junkie’s Holiday Gift Guide, a 12-product spread of outdoors-oriented gift suggestions, from ski bags and knives to a carbon-fiber travel…

Sender Films’ latest, “The Sharp End,” is a vividly-filmed and heart-pounding hour of rock climbing, alpine and ice ascents, slack-lining and BASE jumping at crags…

Click on the home page here (up and to the right) to take Bear Naked’s trail mix survey. It’s easy and quick, and the company…

Helmet maker Giro Sport Design has jumped into the sport-eyewear category, and innovation goes by the name of the patent-pending Pop Top system in the…

In this fourth and final look at new gear from the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show I cover a collapsible kayak, a Schoeller-ensconced mountaineering…

In this third look at the latest gear from the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show I have uncovered stylish sunglasses made for fishermen, water…

The Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show has come to a close. Here’s the first peek this week at new and to-be-released gear, gadgets and…

The Gear Junkie is on site at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show in Salt Lake City. This is an initial report on the…

I blogged on the Jimi last month, the so-called “wallet for people who hate wallets.” But here is my full review of the credit-card-size clamshell…

Function definitely trumps form for this outdoors hat, a wide-brimmed cap with 360 degrees of solar coverage and some sort of Asian peasant aesthetic thing…

Warning: Snark alert. I don’t do this very often. But a press release just came over the wire too difficult to resist: Behold! The I-gliti…

I think this is a cool idea. Saw reference to it on GoBlog this morning. Podpro.ca now offers download-able trail maps for your iPod or…

Rite in the Rain paper has roots in water-resistant paper first developed for the Pacific Northwest logging industry in the 1920s. Today, you can write,…

In this final blog on gear from this year’s Outdoor Retailer Winter Market trade show in Salt Lake City I look at recycled backpacks, heated…

I meant to lay down this blog on Friday after two days of snooping the halls of this year’s Outdoor Retailer Winter Market trade show…

Today begins the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market trade show in Salt Lake City, where hundreds of companies announce thousands of new products for the $289…

Of all seasons, the holidays are the easiest time of year to drop cash on gear and goodies for the great outdoors. Here’s a quick…

Novelist and Pulitzer-Prize nominee Wayne Johnson has written a book about skiing. “White Heat” debuted last week, and it covers the lifestyle that is skiing…

Procuring a pair of prescription sunglasses no longer needs to involve a trip to the eye doctor. With its new “Rx in a Box” program,…

This movie — “King Lines: Chris Sharma’s Search for the Planet’s Greatest Climbs” — is a trippy, forearms-tingling feast for the eyes. (Yes, I did…