First aid and emergency preparedness are essential to outdoor recreation, and Adventure Medical Kits has you covered. Their booth at the 2014 Outdoor Retailer Summer Market was filled to the brim with first aid kits of all sizes, from ultralight backpacking kits to roadside emergency kits to keep in your car. But one new thing…
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Granite Gear’s new packs at Outdoor Retailer 2014 Summer Market
Granite Gear has been keeping busy designing new packs, as they introduced the Virga 26L and updated the Nimbus Trace with 60L and 85L versions. Virga 26L Granite Gear’s Virga 26 L pack is a fast-and-light hiker that the company says will carry the essentials comfortably and securely for mile after mile. Since it does…
New Vasque trail runners and boots at Outdoor Retailer 2014 Summer Market
New from Vasque at the 2014 Outdoor Retailer Summer Market is the Inhaler Collection. So named because the company says these boots and shoes practically breathe. Inhaler Series Coming in Spring ’15, the Inhaler collection will include a mid-version with GORE-TEX® and a Low version that comes with or without GORE-TEX®. The Inhalers are built…
Switch reinvents sunglasses yet again at Outdoor Retailer 2014 Summer Market
From the beginning, we’ve been high on Switch and their innovative, magnetic lens interchange technology. We’ve reviewed the Tioga, Lynx, and Axo models, sending them through the wringer and coming away impressed each time. This year at Outdoor Retailer 2014 Summer Market, the new thing from Switch isn’t more interchangeable magnetic lenses, but interchangeable magnetic…
Yakima has nice racks at Outdoor Retailer 2014 Summer Market
You’re not a true mountain man or woman unless you need several racks all over your car or truck to carry massive amounts of gear. And if you don’t have any gear? Well, they make your car look cool anyway. Yakima has long been among the kings of rack makers, and at the 2014 Outdoor…
Osprey defies gravity at Outdoor Retailer 2014 Summer Market
Osprey has done it again – the company that pretty much revolutionizes backpack design on an annual basis turned heads at their Outdoor Retailer booth with a pack that defies gravity. Atmos & Aura AG Packs The Atmos and Aura packs are not new to the Osprey lineup, but what they did to those packs…
What’s new from Mountain Khakis at Outdoor Retailer 2014 Summer Market
Mountain Khakis, the purveyor of the Original Mountain Pant, is coming out with new stuff to update everyone’s high-country wardrobe. At the Outdoor Retailer 2014 Summer Market, new pants and shirts were all the rage, especially the release of the men’s Camber Collection. Camber 107 and 105 The Camber 107 is like Mountain Khakis’ traditional…
Mountain Hardwear Spring ’15 offerings at Outdoor Retailer
Different Inside: that’s Mountain Hardwear’s new campaign for Spring 2015, and judging by what they had on display at the Outdoor Retailer 2014 Summer Market, the gear they’re about to come with out really is on this side of different. The items that caught my eye on display were new 2.5-layer shells, a totally different…
Suunto reveals the new Ambit3 GPS watch at Outdoor Retailer 2014 Summer Market
The Ambit has been Suunto’s flagship watch for a few years now, and I’ve been using the original model for 2 years on backcountry skiing and mountain biking trips. I’m still very happy with it’s functionality, and frankly find it hard to imagine how it can be improved. Well, Suunto has since come out with…
Embrace the up at the Backcountry Film Festival
There’s a purity in “earning your turns” and more people are backcountry skiing than ever before. In fact, ski touring off the beaten path has blown up so much that entire films are being made on the subject. Enter the Backcountry Film Festival. Celebrating the Human Powered Experience, this year’s event will feature ten new…