As far as cars that moonlight as houses go, most don’t get too many style points. Jay Nelson’s custom campers, on the other hand, are miniature mobile cathedrals. A nod to the 70s handmade buildout trend with a futuristic twist, Nelson’s designs work with what’s already there — whether it’s an 80s Toyota pickup or [...]
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Not since Campfire Cologne hit the market has a product been sold with such a perfect pitch. As Dr. Dan Douglas says, “Now, let’s be clear about this. Each and every thing has its own unique vibrations, somewhere between the nexus of nature and the mind’s eye. We call this place “camp vibes.” What the [...]
It used to take students on National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) courses up to an hour to hang their food in bear country. While students still learn how to properly hang food, they don’t often do it in the backcountry any more — instead they use electric bear fences. Now NOLS often has 15 people [...]
Icebreaker is a cheeky brand. It has the temerity to call some of its merino woolen products “Realfleece,” because it argues that somewhere along the way the outdoor-gear buyer got conned into believing that vests and shirts and coats made of miraculously warm polyester were made of something called “fleece.” Actual fleece, of course, is [...]
Before I was a backpacker, I was a camper. At the age of four. And maybe credit goes to this piece of gear, the Coleman two-burner stove. As a very little kid I can remember the smell of Coleman Fuel (this wasn’t called “white gas,” in my family it was Coleman Fuel, in a red can). [...]
Hoodies have been cool at least since the Middle Ages. And for sheer function, Patagonia’s Capilene 4 Expedition-Weight Hoody might last until the End Days. Here’s why: It’s Lightweight: But still very warm. This lightness, plus a gridlike structure, belies the “fleece” lineage of this shirt, and there’s enough Lycra in the mix for good [...]
Born in Berkeley in 1968, The North Face at first was a single store selling other brands — no official in-house label existed. Eventually that would change, and by the 1980s The North Face was less of an independent retailer and instead a label of its own, a legendary one at that, becoming an outfitter [...]
The annual trek to Vermont’s Kingdom Trails doesn’t happen annually. But eight of the last ten years, a handful of friends has managed the six-hour drive north to one of the best singletrack oases on earth. Kingdom features more than 100 miles of ridiculously manicured singletrack, all purpose-built for riding. On nearby Burke Mountain there’s [...]
Fifteen years. Fifteen years of use, abuse, and mistreatment, and still the Patagonia Black Hole Duffel does me right. The duffel has waterproof zippers, it’s lightweight compared to Cordura duffels, and its minimalist design (haul straps at either end and dual backpack straps) means it doesn’t get as tortured by baggage handlers in first- through [...]
When the power went out the other morning I rummaged around with a headlamp to unearth the Jetboil coffee press from my gear bin. I’d acquired it before a recent camping trip and was shocked to find it outperformed my home Bodum. So there I was, at home, but making like a hiker, boiling water [...]
See that? That’s a Bic lighter that has accompanied me on more epic hikes and trips than just about any tool in my arsenal. It’s just about dry of fuel and has been “grandfathered” on my tool bench, next to Mr. Bill. The lighter has a sort of In-Case-of-Emergency, Break-Zip-Tie status, enshrined because it reminds [...]
My first few days traveling on a glacier, I had a pounding headache. I drank a cup or two of tea in the morning and then purposely dehydrated myself for the rest of the day until we got to camp because I was traveling on a rope with three boys and felt too embarrassed to [...]
When it comes to Lodge cookwear, your response is one of two things: Either you know and love it or you’ve never heard of it. If you’re in the former camp…you camp. You camp and you cook real food when you do, not some reconstituted mixture of “vegetable” or “meat.” Most likely you’re as much [...]
Nobody at Sierra Designs promised DriDown to be waterproof, to make all our dreams come true of having the lightest, most packable, best-insulating material we’ve yet discovered—down—overcome its one drawback, which is its complete inability to insulate once it gets wet. But could their treated down handle at least some moisture, the incidental water we [...]
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