Gear Reviews
Mountain Equipment Dihedral Pants
Reviewed by Wil Wheaton Mountain Equipment has been making gear for over 50 years, and it shows in the quality of each piece I’ve owned. The Dihedral ...
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Six Moon Designs Swift X Ultralight Backpack
Reviewed by Bryan McDirmid If you still carry cans of soup into the backcountry, this pack is not for you. I tested this ultra-light, 36-ounce backpack over ...
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AKU Selvatica GTX Hiking Boots
These boots made by Italian company AKU are a light, nimble, waterproof/breathable option for taking on the Inland Northwest’s rougher mountain trails. The Elica Fit technology allows your ...
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Gear Room: Cody Townsend’s Le Send Ski Touring Sock
Australian gear company Le Bent turned to pro skier Cody Townsend to help design the first sock specifically for ski touring. Years of suffering through ...
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Gear Room: Sweet Protection Interstellar Goggles
For me, a sign of a well-designed piece of gear is how little cursing is involved with first getting a gear item dialed and functioning. ...
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Gear Room: Sweet Protection Helmet
I started wearing a helmet skiing over a decade ago, and good thing too. The very next season, casually picking my way down a shredded ...
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Gear Room: Flyshacker Grindle Plaid
I’m not the kind of person who gets too excited about clothes so was surprised how much I immediately loved the Flyshacker Grindle Plaid flannel ...
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Long-time Gear Shop Changes Hands
Sandpoint, Idaho— Downtown Sandpoint’s Outdoor Experience, or OE as it’s known to many of the outdoor gear store’s customers, has been a fixture of the ...
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6 Winter Gear Gift Ideas
Mountain Equipment Dispersion Jacket The genius of the Dispersion Jacket isn’t a laundry list of superfluous features, but in the simple construction that combines hard ...
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