Outdoor gear, apparel and footwear for hikers and backpackers.
GEAR SHOP // REVIEW Dayhiking with Camelbak’s Palisade 32 Hydration Pack Loading the Palisade 32 for a day on the trail is a breeze. The abundance of pockets lets you keep things organized and accessible just the way you want. One of Camelbak’s largest hydration packs to date, the Palisade 32 is one of the …
GEAR SHOP 10 Trail Gear Essentials for Great Summer Hiking Every year, there’s a bounty of new trail gear items that hit the market, all to entice us to weigh down our packs just a little more to enjoy some backcountry comfort and convenience. Here are ten of our favorite new items that have become our latest …
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GEAR SHOP 20 Great Gear Gifts for the Hikers on Your Holiday List 2020 has been a rough year. Between the pandemic, civil unrest, wildfires and weird weather, we still managed to get in some hiking time and try out some of the latest trail gear, apparel and accessories. We’ve selected our favorite items into this year’s …
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TRAIL TESTED Favorite Hiking Apparel and Footwear for 2020 This was an uncertain year for testing new trail gear. Here in Oregon, we dealt with pandemic lockdowns, social justice riots, and raging wildfires. In between all that, we tried to hit the trail when and where we could, and sample some of the latest trail …
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GEAR SHOP Great Gear Picks We’ll (hopefully) be Hiking with This Summer As Oregon’s outdoor areas begin to reopen for hiking and recreation, we’re starting to look forward to the trails we want to roam, and the gear we’ll be packing along. This year, we’re sampling a selection of promising new items that we previewed …
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TRAIL TESTED Ultralight Backpacking with Osprey’s Levity 45 Osprey has always been a solid choice for backpacks, so when I got the chance to try out the ultralight Levity 45 backpack I was excited to see how well it performed. Osprey markets this pack as built for the “maniacal gram-counter,” and this definitely lives up …