As an outdoor blogger and a Twitter chatterbox, I am on a lot of PR firm mailing lists. I get several emails a week announcing new products and they often ask if I want a sample to review. However, in typical PR fashion these emails go to a huge list of people and the product [...]
Next, lets put this thing together: At this point you may think what my husband told me: ”That looks like something out of a meth lab”. Okay, I don’t disagree. Not that I’m familiar with meth labs. Other than what Breaking Bad has taught me, that is. Turn the sucker upside down, stuff it in [...]
I’ve always been interested in Brooks-Range Mountaineering gear and I finally was able to meet with the company and see their stuff up close at January’s Winter Outdoor Retailer Show. Their selection is small but high-quality. There is no “Fall 2011 line” of fashionable new colors or fad-of-the-year bandwagoning. It’s all professional gear for the backcountry [...]
The Outdoor Retailer Demo Day is all about flashy new gear demos and loud fun. But tucked in between the DJ booth and beer taps was a modest booth belonging to a company called Yurbuds. I probably walked by it ten times before stopping to take a look. Yurbuds are earbuds that are designed for [...]
Recently I acquired a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 digital camera (birthday present to myself). This camera is a high quality device disguised as a compact point-and-shoot. When I’m backpacking, I’m often in the most beautiful scenery I’ve ever experienced and strongly wish I had my DSLR along, but I’m not going to haul it for long [...]
Tom Mangan of Two-Heel Drive has written a nice profile of Henry Shires and his Tarptent business over on Trailspace.com. I’m very fond of my tarptents and was even quoted in the article, along with a cheesy picture of me in my Rainbow last summer. From the article: Shires’s business is based in the foothills [...]
I just published my Field Report for the Golite Xanadu on BackpackGearTest.org (read it here or start at the Initial Report here). This is an oddball tent and I felt I needed to say a bit more about it. The Xanadu is advertised as a four season, 2+ person tent that weighs in at well [...]
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