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Rab Microlight Jacket Review
Trim-fitting ultralight three-season down jacket with a great shell and basic feature set, but its numerous horizontal seams allow down fragments to leak out.
Le Parcour de Wild Race Report
With temperatures that ranged from -5 F to 40 F, the Bob Marshall Wilderness threw some formidable weather our way and reminded us: this stuff ain't for the faint of heart!
Olympus E-620 Digital SLR Camera Review
The E-620 is the lightest mid-sized or "crop sensor" format DSLR with all the functionality and image quality for serious backcountry still photography - even in difficult situations like handheld shots in low morning and evening light.
Gossamer Gear Gorilla Backpack Review
Lower volume ultralight backpack with removable stays and other components - so you can set up the pack for individual trips and personal preferences to your heart's content.
MYOG Technical Note – Catenary Curves
The whys and wheres of catenary curves, with downloadable spreadsheet for calculating your own MYOG curve masterpieces.
Make Your Own Gear – A Titanium Potty Trowel
The venerable Coghlans orange potty trowel is a fine idea, but it weighs 51 grams and has been known to crack and break under heavy use. Can we do better with some titanium sheet?
The North Face Beeline Sleeping Bag Review
The specifications look great, but the devil is in the details.
The North Face Thunder Jacket Review
Not the lightest down jacket to be found, but it's an excellent balance of warmth and durability, and versatile the year around as an outer layer or midlayer.
New Balance MT875OR Joggers Review
Totally synthetic, luggy soles, and a breathable draining upper, plus a range of width fittings including really wide (4E). (Updated 9/22/09)
Alpacka Ultralight Paddle Review
A packrafting paddle is not a particularly special thing. It’s simply a kayak paddle, capable of being broken down into two or four pieces for easy stowage while inside or attached to a pack.
Heat Exchange Stove Shootout: Part 3
Heat Exchanger Stoves
When do these stoves offer a weight reduction when compared to the baseline of Part 2 of the series?
GoPro Wide Helmet Cam Review
Practical application review on using the helmet cam in the backcountry... essentially, how does it do?
Heat Exchanger Stove Shootout: Part 2
Upright and Remote Canister Stoves
Setting a baseline: we survey a good range of conventional canister stoves for performance, setting us up for the comparison in Part 3.
Western Mountaineering Hooded Flash Jacket Review
Perfect balance of warmth, light weight, and performance for less extreme conditions.
Panasonic Lumix LX3 Digital Camera
A compact digicam with a professional pedigree, the LX3 tempts outdoor photographers with a fast wide angle (f:2.0/24 mm equivalent) zoom lens, RAW file capability, high-definition video and solid performance.
Garmin Oregon 550t Handheld Color Mapping GPS Review
Garmin trumpets the addition of a camera to this gadget, but are the improvement they DON'T mention even more impressive?
Heat Exchanger Stove Shootout: Part 1
Introduction and Test Method
The performance and efficiency of canister stoves, put to the test. When the dust (and CO2) settle, which one will be left standing?
Two in One Boat: Sharing a Packraft on a River Trip
With 40 lbs from skin out for both father and son, would our contingency plan of "snuggling for warmth" come into play?
Stoves, Tents and Carbon Monoxide – Deadly or not?
Supplement 5: Snow Peak GST-120 Lite Max
The Snow Peak GST-100 GigaPower stove is widely regarded as the 'Gold Standard' for upright canister stoves. It weighs about 74 grams. Snow Peak has released a new stove in this series: the GST-120, or Lite Max, weighing only 56 grams, reviewed here. Does the Lite Max live up to the reputation of its precursor, the GST-100 (which is still available)?
Nemo Nano Elite Tent Review
The Nemo Nano Elite is marketed by the manufacturer as a lightweight, fast set-up tent aimed at adventure racers and the fast-and-light crowd. Since I can't run with the former, I try to hang with the latter.
