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A few months back, GearJunkie, ECCO, and Iceland Naturally hosted a sweepstakes that awarded gear and a trip to Iceland. The winner, Zachary Wist, and his wife just returned from the journey.
Luna sandals are made with distance runners in mind. Crazy as it sounds, a subset of runners and ultra athletes now tackle great distances in shoes most people wear to the beach.
From Utah to Japan (and all around the world), our readers have tagged some wild mountain summits. Here’s a photo spread.
Last month we challenged readers with a caption contest. We sifted through the hundreds of submissions and picked five winners.
Where can you snowboard and ride your bike at the same time? A rock quarry, of course! Watch this crew drop into the dirt on bikes and boards, racing, riding, hucking drops, and crashing more than once on the fast, dirty descent.
A sprint down a bike path, a climbing wall traverse, clues on a scavenger hunt through GearJunkie headquarters… those were among the feats required of the teams who participated in the first “Gear Junkie Challenge” urban race last night.
If you’ve been in a Mother’s Day flower rut, how about something outdoorsy? Here are a few of our picks, many in the same price range as a bouquet from the corner store.
Today marks the launch of a collaboration between GearJunkie and REI. It’s appropriately called “The Gear Junkie on REI.”
The entries are streaming in for our Ragnar Trail Tahoe sweepstakes, brought to you by Salomon and Suunto. 10 days ’til we pick a winner…
Send us a photo taken on an adventure to either a sea (or any body of water) or a summit for a chance to win a Sea to Summit gear package.
As if an adventure race in North Dakota wasn’t unexpected enough, check out these images from the undeniably unique END-SPAR event last weekend.
Last week, we asked you to send in a picture and a one-sentence description of a site you have pitched a tent or the most dramatic place you’ve stopped to rest outside for the night.
The twice-annual “Gear of the Year” awards were announced by Outside magazine this week. Here is the full list.
As told by Chelsey Magness: “A few days ago, Jason and I dusted off the comforts of the ground and headed high…”
A day-long tour in Boulder, Colo., this week netted some insight into why the area is such an incubator for outdoors gear. Here’s a photo spread from the action.
Type in an incorrect URL on many outdoor sites and you’re greeted with a silly photo, a pixelated image, or some other idiosyncrasy that gives a peek at the soul of the brand.
Combining a music festival with a weekend of outdoors activity and camping has been FloydFest’s calling card since its founding in 2002. Here’s a spread of images from the (often wild) scene.
Taking psychotic “human flight” to new levels, today winguit/BASE-jump athlete Alexander Polli released this video. He pulls a “never before done” feat of flying through a narrow cave on a mountainside in Spain…
We at GearJunkie love maps. Unabashedly, our office is filled with them. We got to thinking about how we could put these adventure relics to use…
Enter your caption to win! GearJunkie and The North Face have teamed up to launch the second “Gear Up + Get Out Sweepstakes.” This month, $1,000 in ultra-running gear is at stake. . .
It’s “Gear of the Year” time again for National Geographic. The brand’s Adventure bureau has crowned a total of 20+ winners, from tents to cameras to optics. Here’s the full list, just released from Nat Geo this week.
Roller bags rarely make our news feed, but once in a while a brand does something notably different. That’s surely the case with the Ascender 22 from Kelty, which converts from carry-on size to a checked bag in a blink.
GearJunkie, Salomon, and Suunto want to send you on a trip to Lake Tahoe! We’ll gear you up then fly you to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where the Ragnar Trail Tahoe event will serve as the focal point for a weekend of adventure and fun.
Light changes out there, and you gotta switch your optics. These three sunglasses from Smith, Switch, and Tifosi offer easy-to-change lens systems.
Last month, we challenged readers to submit a caption to the photo at right. In the end, these five captions (out of hundreds submitted) stood out as the best.
They cost $14 a pop. A small loop of cord and a quick-release buckle make them work as zipper pulls on a pack. The Gerber Daily Carry line comes to market next month. We got a first look.
Enter your caption to win! Olympus is partnering with GearJunkie for a chance to show off your creative captioning skills and win a “tough camera” worth $379.
You know him as the best-selling author of books like “The 4-Hour Body.” Tim Ferriss is a fitness freak, an outdoor junkie, and now the face of a new Merrell project, “4 Fundamentals of Outside Fitness.” GearJunkie caught up with Ferriss last week for the scoop.
BMC made a Lamborghini bike last year. It was red and cost around $25K. This year, the company unveiled an upgrade, a $32,000 carbon road bike that “reflects the craftsmanship used in the Lamborghini Aventador car.”
Most sunglasses are made of petroleum-based materials. But in an effort to reduce its ecological footprint, ZEAL has 100% “plant-based” sunglasses coming out this spring.
U.S. highway billboard vinyl is a thin, durable, and recyclable material. A new brand has built ski bags made of the material, which might otherwise end up in a landfill.
No, thanks.
