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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…

In his book, “Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100” (Avalon Press, $16.95), my SoCal buddy and fellow fitness/outdoors writer Roy Wallack lays out…

I don’t usually review soap, but Kenton Athletics, a Providence, Rhode Island, company sent me a couple bottles of its 2-in-1 Body & Hair Wash,…

Unbeknownst to me, Aerobie, Inc. — maker of those ring-shape discs that fly about a mile — also dabbles in coffee. Indeed, the AeroPress is…

I’m back from the Outdoor Retailer trade show, dizzy and tired from four days on the go, four days of snooping through convention center hallways,…

Crazy times this week in Salt Lake City. Product demos, P.R. meetings, and nonstop press engagements on the floor of the Salt Palace convention center,…

My plane leaves tonight for the 2007 Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City, where hundreds of companies announce products for 2008. This show is…

Yes, these are sunglasses. Folded up into a knot. Done on purpose for demonstration sake. But they’ll pop back into shape the moment they’re untangled.…

Buck Knives’ X-Tract multitool has been upgraded to include a small L.E.D. light, adding illumination to the list of tasks this small foldable doodad can…

The age-old technique of pointing to yonder distant object with an extended arm and outstretched finger — “Right there, right there!” — is an inane…

According to the J.L.Darling Corporation, soggy and illegible paperwork has plagued outdoor writers for decades. As an outdoor writer myself, I concur. Regular paper often…

Klawhorn Industries’ Redi-Edge Dog Tag P38 is a skimmed-down knife sharpener shaped like a — you guessed it — military dog tag. It weighs essentially…

Made for birders, hunters, photographers, star gazers, and maybe rock climbers trying to point out holds high on a face, the IC-UC handheld spotting sight…

Duct tape has long been a personal panacea for me in the outdoors, patching torn Gore-Tex, padding blisters, and performing a litany of ad hoc…

Like duct tape, Gorilla Tape is marketed as a universal salve for quick fix-ups. In the outdoors this means repairing broken poles, patching punctured tarps,…

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…

Eyewear is annoying in the outdoors. Foggy lenses, sweaty frames, mud splats on glass — all are common complications of wearing glasses in the great…

Today we officially launch with full access to the web site, including a vast archive of gear reviews, adventure-travel feature stories, interactive slideshows, and video…