We are honored to be ranked No. 2 on Outside magazine’s recent “Top Outdoor Gear Blogs” article! From more than two-dozen candidates, GearJunkie.com stood out as one of the best. Here is the full list.
When a new vehicle comes without a factory rack, a Gear Junkie editor commits to drill bits and a custom install for a procedure that mounts a Thule rack permanently onto the vehicle’s roof.
The biggest online shopping day of the year is not lost on outdoor retailers. See our links curated from dozens of sites to bargains on outerwear, skis, sunglasses, tents, knives, packs, and even rain jackets made for dogs!
Like it or not, the shopping spree that is “Black Friday” is not totally lost on the outdoors world, especially online. If you’re planning to shop this week, and are not flocking to an area mega-mart at 3a.m., click to view a few online outdoors deals we’ve rounded up.
Live and onstage this weekend at the Outdoor Adventure Expo in Minneapolis, Gear Junkie founder Stephen Regenold will present the publication’s 2011 ‘Top 10 Gear’ awards as well as highlights from a year of adventure around the globe.
Part online game, part participatory adventure, GearJunkie’s ‘Checkpoint: SPOT’ treasure hunt this week opens up to smartphone users! Check-in at locations around the U.S. to win big prizes and outdoors swag.
Our writer Jason Magness, a yoga instructor as well as a competitive outdoor athlete, tests a new kit of massage-mimicking tools from Trigger Point, a Texas company looking to replace your sports therapist with DVD instructions and rollers made of foam.
We’re staking a claim: The Gear Junkie’s “Treasure Hunt: Roanoke” event is the biggest outdoor gear giveaway consolidated each year anywhere in the world. Here are the photos from last weekend to prove it!
Congrats to all participants in our 2011 “Treasure Hunt: Roanoke” event! Here are the official tallied race results with name, course time, and overall rank. We hope to see you all again next year!
The GearJunkie crew is packing up and soon getting on a plane for Roanoke, Va., and the site of our 2nd annual “Treasure Hunt: Roanoke,” a map/compass-based scavenger hunt where you search for up to $40,000 in gear!
Gear Junkie contributors Jason and Chelsey Magness star in this quick video about the “job” of testing gear. Includes details on their commute to the office in the snowy peaks above their new home town in Bend, Ore.
Two weeks from today, on October 23 in Roanoke, Va., we will host the second annual “Treasure Hunt: Roanoke,” an event where tens of thousands of dollars worth of outdoors gear is up for grabs!
It’s “Gear of the Year” time in the glossy outdoor magazine world, with Outside releasing its top picks earlier this week and National Geographic crowning 27 “winners” today. Here’s the full list, just released from NG.
A to-be-released multitool from Gerber comes with a blade, 12 implements, and a fold-out set of legs to convert it to a camera tripod.
Contest Time! Join us at The Gear Junkie on Facebook to get in on the discussion and try to win some shoes from Timberland.
Contest Time! Click to “like” The Gear Junkie on Facebook and you’ll score a chance to win a new fold-up camp shoe from Timberland. It’s that easy.
Merrell’s ‘Add Your Own Scenery’ contest has goal to make the world’s largest panoramic photo online. Enter to win a $5,000 trip + support public lands around the world.
One day left! Today is the final day for our ‘Search for the Most Durable Person’ sweepstakes! Sign up here. . .
Easy-open knives have been around for years. But knifemakers continue to find new ways to design and sell products that can be at the ready in an instant with one hand. Here is Buck’s latest go.
A single photo illustrates what Gear Junkie calls his most “ultimate gear test” of the past five years.
Your guide to the free downloading of 1:24,000-scale USGS topo maps. Go forth taxpayer! Enter into the public domain. And download at will.
With a screech more ear-piercing than a 5-year-old girl’s, the Fox 40 Sharx whistle is said to be heard for miles over ambient sounds.
You can be prepared for any winter storm with Thule’s K Summit chains. But are they worth $450? This is the Gear Junkie review.
At just 5 ounces, Gerber’s bare-bones Crucial tool is the lightest butterfly-opening multi-tool in its line.
Gibbon, a company helping transform slacklining into a mainstream activity, produced the Jibline to make it easier for slackers to do tricks.
Drills on compass bearings, UTM coordinate plotting, tests on the principles of declination — these are the puzzles you solve in the new “Table Top Adventure Race and Navigation Challenge” book.
These shades feature frames manufactured with a secret “plant-based material.”
The Ruff Wear Climate Changer fleece fits well, breathes and dries quickly to keep dogs warm in all types of cold-weather pursuits.
Swapping lenses with the Smith Pivlock Sunglasses is as easy as removing the nosepiece and tilting the earpieces at a 45-degree angle to detach them.
From full-strength mini carabiners to a “rip-stop merino wool” backpack, this year’s Outdoor Retailer trade show revealed an impressive lineup of new product innovations. This is the Gear Junkie wrap-up.
Whether you’re crossing a glacier or just biking to the grocery store, the right pair of sunglasses can protect your eyes. This review covers Costa Del Mar’s Corbina model.
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