
Chrome ‘Collabs’ on Beer-Branded Messenger Bag
Hipster marketing run amok or beer drinkers’ delight? Chrome teams up with the “Champagne of Beers” for a co-branded collection, including a Miller Highlife-emblazoned messenger bag.
Hipster marketing run amok or beer drinkers’ delight? Chrome teams up with the “Champagne of Beers” for a co-branded collection, including a Miller Highlife-emblazoned messenger bag.
Space-age design meets wilderness utility in an upcoming backpack line from Terra Nova Equipment. The U.K. company’s to-be-released Quasar series packs employ a crinkly polyethylene material usually used in yacht sails.
Made of a sleek Dyneema fabric, the Minimal Backpack from New York City-based Outlier is marketed as an urban day-pack that is “backcountry tough.”
Gear Junkie editor Stephen Regenold breaks down the equipment he used on a recent “fast and light” hike in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Carbon trekking poles, arms warmers, and a “bottom-less” sleeping bag were among the items in his kit.
Lightweight yet rugged and large, the to-be-released Crown 60 is set for fully-geared weekend backpacking trips or minimalists who are loaded with the bulk of food to trek long and far.
Writes Gear Junkie, “In the gear-that’s-changed-my-life category, the line item of ‘small accessible pockets on backpacks’ may seem odd.” This post details a half-dozen products that offer a simple upgrade in backpack accessibility to keep gear always at the ready on the go outside.
Quality, kid-size backpacking and camping gear from Deuter makes it easier to get the little ones outdoors. Our writer and his two sons, ages seven and 10, give the gear a test.
Last night, at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, amid dinosaur bones and live stingrays undulating in a shallow pool, Columbia Sportswear previewed its spring 2012 product line. Gear Junkie gives a run-down of the ceremonies and the company’s unique new wares.
Founded by a group of working adventure-photographers, F-Stop is a pack company that markets to photojournalists as well as serious amateur shooters. Our resident adventure photog, T.C. Worley, gives an F-Stop pack a full field test.
Combine facets from Green Beret training camp, adventure racing, and a macho, male-bounding weekend, and you get the GORUCK Challenge, a boot-camp-style overnight feat. Our writer participated in a GORUCK event last month.
It packs into a hand-size pouch and weighs scant ounces. But unfurl this pack and you have a roll-top closure waterproof bag complete with shoulder straps. GearJunkie reviews Sea to Summit day pack.
Classic Messenger bag style from San Francisco-based Timbuk2 now includes option of pseudo-denim fabric for its outside panel face.
Osprey aims to make bicycle commuting easier with its Momentum pack. Writer T.C. Worley hits the streets to give it a test.
In its next issue, due on newsstands at the end of this month, Outside magazine will announce the Summer 2011 winners of its Gear of the Year awards. Here’s a sneak peek. . .
It’s built to carry loads of 40 pounds or more. A strange, gill-like panel was made to “fit the topography of your back.” Our writer tests the burly new Nimbus Trace 62 from Granite Gear.
The Lightbrite Swig is made with a thick waterproof nylon fabric and has a simple, streamlined design. Gear Junkie gave it a three-month test.
Mike Kloser, a god in the sport of adventure racing, has founded a new company and designed a backpack. Gear Junkie got an exclusive first look.
Maximize your carry-on allowance with a suitcase built for that exact job. After a year of travel, Gear Junkie reviews a spread of overhead-compartment-compliant suitcases.
Need to run or hike fast with water and little else? A hydration vest is a good option. In this column, Gear Junkie tests the new E-LITE vest from Hydrapak.
Drum roll. . . GearJunkie’s annual ‘Top 10’ Gear picks award the best of the best outdoors equipment after a year of use and abuse around the world. Congrats to Rab, Inov-8 Ltd., Icebug, Garmin, Ibex, Suunto. . .
Swedish company prides itself on classic design and a vintage look that could’ve been pulled from an LL Bean catalog page from decades back.
Contributor T.C. Worley put a JanSport backpack to the test on Mount Rainier. The $280 Tahoma model is the company’s take on a “serious” pack for alpine pursuits.
Clunky remnants of another era? Not so claim several backpack manufacturers who have brought external-frame models back to the retail floor.
Two major outdoors-products companies will unveil packs in 2011 that look like they were made in the 1960s. No gimmick intended.
Our reviewer calls this a “messenger-style” bag for folks who plan on traveling with their laptop, but not cycling with it.
New pack from The North Face touted to have “good karma” as an attribute alongside a hydration pocket and compression straps. Bonus: It’s made out of wool!
The SealLine Pro Pack is like a roll-top dry bag on steroids. It has a backpack harness and a hip belt, too. Gear Junkie puts it to the test.
Gear Junkie offers a few bullet points from an ultra-light trip last summer in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Two former bike messengers test one of the least expensive and best bike bags on the market.
At $105, The North Face’s Chatter backpack is a good looking, functional pack — for work or play.
Hip pockets on backpacks takes the slot for item No. 2 on my list of “Five Gear Innovations.”
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