Welcome to part II of our “Best in Show” gear awards! This stock of innovative outdoors products, culled from the greatest new items on display last week at the Outdoor Retailer trade show, includes everything from fast-and-light alpine climbing gear to a high-heel shoe made for biking.
The twice-annual Outdoor Retailer trade show, held in Salt Lake City, is an exhibition of the best outdoors equipment in the world. The Gear Junkie staff offers part I of its “Best in Show” gear awards culled from the thousands of new products that debuted in Utah last week.
Skinny but stout, the new ultralight trekking poles from Black Diamond borrow tricks from probe poles used in avalanche rescue. Gear Junkie goes on a test trek.
One pole, five tent stakes, and a pentagonal tarp are all it takes to erect a solid backcountry shelter with this new tent from Nemo. Our writer tested it on trips this year as far afield as southern Chile to put the minimalist shelter through the paces.
The Backcountry Boiler is a camp stove of sorts that combines the functionality of a cooking pot and a stove into one. It eliminates the dependency on gas or other liquid fuel to heat water in the outback.
Combine high-output bushwhacking and wilderness navigation mixed with sections where you run on trail — that’s “wilderness running,” an esoteric activity most often seen in the sport of orienteering and adventure racing. Gear Junkie gives a primer.
Back from his six-month “Alaska-Yukon Expedition,” ultra-light backpacking phenom Andrew Skurka sits down for a Q&A with Gear Junkie.
Team GearJunkie.com battled to an awesome 2nd place finish in this year’s Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race. We lounged around today in Punta Arenas, Chile, and talked about how it all went.
The Gear Junkie crew is off to Utah this week and the twice-annual Outdoor Retailer trade show. Here’s a quick visual tour of a few new products that have already caught our eye.
Gear Junkie presents the ‘A to Z’ on the barefoot and minimalist running shoe market, including a cursory look at 2010/2011 models and all things burgeoning in the world of the “barefoot” shoe.
No, that’s not a bear trap. It’s La Sportiva’s svelte and ultra-light backcountry ski binding, new to the U.S. and Canadian markets next month!
Built with a unique “air-permeable reflective insulation” material, the $3,400 Isopod tent is Nemo’s design culmination from a multiyear experience working for NASA.
Just three days to go! Here’s a look into the stash of gear accompanying our “Treasure Hunt: Roanoke” event this Sunday, July 11.
Gear Junkie offers a few bullet points from an ultra-light trip last summer in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Gear Junkie interviewed runner Dean Karnazes, currently between an ultra race in Patagonia and a marathon in Fargo, N.D.
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