Outdoors
Kit: Free Solo Climbing
Sometimes the mountains just call your name. Whether you’ve got a season to train for a summit bit up Mt.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: November 14, 2013
Paul Evans Shoes Many brands have proven that the Internet-based, direct-to-consumer market is a thriving place, popular because it provides consumers with high end products that aren’t marked up to cover brick-and-mortar store costs. Paul Evans believes that type of consumer should be literally well-heeled while saving a few bucks on what would normally be a very expensive endeavor.
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Gift Ideas12 Guys of Christmas: The Adventurer
What do you get the guy who spends more time sleeping under the stars each year than most people do in their entire lives? The guy who has gear for every season, every sport, journey, and surprise bug-out?
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TechWant This, Get This: Nikon Df or Olympus OMD E-M1
If you’re like us, you have a long list of cameras you’d love to own. But reality (almost) always steps in, and your desires remain unfulfilled.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: November 13, 2013
Rocksmith 2014 How much better would you be at math had you learned your times tables while playing Zelda? Okay, maybe not the best analogy, but a similar principle is at play with Rocksmith 2014.
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WatchesBreakdown: Thomas Mercer Legacy Shackleton Epic
Thomas Mercer recently released the limited edition (25 pieces) Thomas Mercer Legacy Shackleton Epic ($139,000) marine chronometer to commemorate the centennial of Shackleton’s 1914-1916 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
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WatchesTo Protect and Serve: 6 Great Anti-Magnetic Watches
In recent years, watchmaking materials have improved to the point where many Swiss-made mechanical watches meet minimum anti-magnetic standards. But that’s not good enough for us; we’re bringing you six of the most badass anti-magnetic watches on the market.
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WatchesRebirth of a Legend
The Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil is a direct homage to the famous Mercedes-Benz W25 Silver Arrow that dominated motorsports between the World Wars. These cars were monsters, with oversized spoked rims and massive straight-cylinder engines barely sheathed in metal.
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Gift Ideas12 Guys of Christmas: The Designer
If you’ve ever spent time around this next guy on our list, you’ve probably been exposed to one or more of the following: the name-that-font game; conversations on additive vs. subtractive color modes; mistaking Roy G.
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MotoringQuick Spin: 2013 Dodge Challenger SRT8 Core
The Dodge Challenger first hit the scene in the ’70s to compete in the “Pony Car” market along side the Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro. The third-generation Challenger (unveiled in 2006), retains cues from the ’70s version — hood scoops, round headlights, and an overall wide and flat design — to look every bit the American muscle car.
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MotoringOctane Icon: 1961 Lincoln Continental
The Sixties were flush with revolutions: in music, sexuality, drugs, fashion, wider-sweeping social reform and more. And then there was the look.
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DrinksZa Zdarovye! The 10 Best Russian Imperial Stouts
You ever have one of those ideas that seems really good at the time? Like, let’s drop these broken speakers down a flight of stairs, or let’s jump into the mosh pit at a Machinehead concert, or let’s see if we can lure that deer into the car?
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OutdoorsKit: Upland Hunting
As the mercury drops, game enthusiasts from across the fruited plain trade in their drift boats and fly rods for double barreled breach-break shotguns, some blaze orange, and a Labrador, if they’re lucky. Upland hunting takes many shapes and forms depending on where you call home: there’s the cold Northeast, the prairies and cornfields of the Midwest, the Intermountain region on down to the South.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: November 8, 2013
The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook Danny Meyer’s award-winning NYC restaurant is known for its convivial atmosphere and, naturally, its excellent food. But we can think of another convivial place — can you guess?
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FitnessA Guide to Trail Runs, in New York City
In urban settings like New York, walking, let alone running, is hard enough. With the abundance of hazards — from reckless taxis to sharp-eyed grannies — hitting the streets in your new pair of kicks often means putting your life on the line.
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Archive30 Minutes With: Michael Wardian
It’s hard to imagine a more accomplished and well-rounded distance runner than Michael Wardian. In 1996 he ran the Marine Corps Marathon, his first, in a swift 3:08.
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OutdoorsThe Complete Guide to Running Your First Ultramarathon
You’ve probably been hearing more about them: occasional murmurs of very long distance races, men and women running six marathons across the Sahara, a 3,100 mile race in Queens, NY, in the middle of summer. Ultrarunning, or running more than a 26.2 mile marathon in a single shot, seems an unlikely pursuit — and it is.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: November 6, 2013
Tile It’s great to have stuff. But once you have enough stuff, keeping track of all your stuff can get dicey.
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WatchesTimekeeping Icon: Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos Clock
We like to think our self-winding watches can run forever. But they will stop eventually, and before then their accuracy will degrade.
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Gift Ideas12 Guys of Christmas: The Outdoorsman
We’ve all got a guy in our lives who’s more at home chopping a cord of wood or filleting his latest fly fishing catch than spending the day lazing in front of the TV or playing Halo with the bros. He’d wear flannel and hiking boots to board meetings if he could.