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Today in GearToday in Gear, Outdoor Retailer Summer Market: August 7, 2015
A moveable cabin, Under Armour’s burly trail runner, an innovative water filter and more.
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Outdoors17 Outdoor Products for New Parents
Take everything in your gear shed, shrink it down, add bright colors, and you’ve got a kit for outfitting your new baby for outdoor adventure.
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OutdoorsEssential Gear for Heli-Skiing
Heli-skiing in Western Canada is about as good as skiing gets.
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Today in GearToday in Gear, Outdoor Retailer Winter: January 22, 2015
The newest gear unveiled at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2015 includes Oatmeal in a squeezy pouch, new additions to La Sportiva’s winter line, Polartec’s new synthetic fabric and more.
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OutdoorsBest of Outdoor Retailer, Summer 2014
You know it’s time for another Outdoor Retailer show when South Main Street in Salt Lake City is populated by fat bikes, single-wheeled skateboards and tan people with good beards.
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OutdoorsKit: Ultralight Backpacking
Obsessive weight-trimmers with less than 10 pounds strapped to their backs are considered “ultralight” hikers, a term as ubiquitous and unregulated in the hiking retail market as “organic” and “grass fed” are in the food industry.
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OutdoorsKit: A Photographer in Oregon’s Wilderness
Photographer Chris Burkard explains his kit for capturing nature in the Oregon wilderness.
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OutdoorsKit: The Perfect Day Pack
Most day hikes require a peanut butter sandwich, a water bottle and maybe some bug spray. But for the weekend warrior who wants to crush in one day what most people stroll in three, there are a few indispensables.
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OutdoorsKit: Ski Mountaineering
Ski mountaineering is the ultimate punishment tour in the mountains — moving uphill with heavy gear through deep snow and ice — with a perfect payoff when it’s time to go down. We spent this winter testing the best winter mountaineering and ski gear on some of the biggest peaks in Utah and Colorado as we trained for the Power of 4 Ski Mountaineering Race.
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OutdoorsBest of Outdoor Retailer, Winter 2014
We like to get our hands on new gear early, and short of theft and corporate espionage one of the best ways to do that is by checking out Outdoor Retailer, a biannual product show for retailers, manufacturers and other industry pros. We were on hand at the Winter Market 2014 show at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, UT, where every brand with a stake in the great outdoors showed off their future cold-weather wares.
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OutdoorsKit: Powder Day
Deep powder is a religious experience, and it takes just one perfect day of blue skies and bottomless snow to become a pious worshiper. From Alyeska to Taos, powderhounds feverishly monitor weather reports for the next big storm, and after spending a weekend skiing 12,000-foot ridges in Telluride, we know exactly why: powder skiing is as close as man can get to flying in the mountains.
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OutdoorsMountain Chargers: 5 Best Skis of 2014
A new pair of skis is more than just a new piece of expensive gear: it’s an investment in winter stoke.
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OutdoorsKit: 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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OutdoorsKit: Climbing Ancient Art Tower
No other sport relies quite as heavily on gear during life-and-death situations as climbing. Your gear is the only lifeline (and sometimes when you’re a few hundred feet up a sheer wall, no amount of gear seems to be enough) holding you to the rock.
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OutdoorsKit: Summer Skiing
Every year for Memorial Day a few die-hard friends and I skip the barbecues to indulge our powder habit one last time. Summer skiing is our way of throwing a middle finger to the sun before our precious snow melts for another year.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: May 7, 2013
Halda Watches Halda’s interchangeable concept watches feature base “time platforms” and multiple “time modules” in a horological version of Face Off. Mechanical and digital modules for both the “Race Pilot” and the “Space Discovery” mean you can tailor your look and your timekeeping features to your environment.