Gear
Field tests, not unboxings. Everything here has been carried, dropped, soaked and repaired before we wrote a word.
Gear · Field Test
Terracline Col 55 Review: The Pack That Refused to Be Precious
Six hundred miles, two continents and one baggage carousel later, the Col 55 has earned the highest compliment we give a pack: we stopped thinking about it.
Gear · Field Test
Sealoft Fathom Hooded 4/3 Review: Seven Months in Water That Wants You Out
Sixty-three sessions between November and May, most of them under 53 degrees, from Ocean Beach to the Oregon coast in January. The Fathom mostly delivers on an outrageous claim — once you survive the first two weeks of wrist seals.
Gear · Field Test
Corrie Sundog 96 Review: A Season on the One-Ski Quiver That Isn't Lying
Sixty-one days, from Thanksgiving groomer laps in the Wasatch to Memorial Day slush on Mammoth Mountain. The Sundog 96 is not the best ski at anything, which turns out to be the whole point.
Gear · Field Test
The Blind Test: Nine Trail Shoes, Taped Logos, One Runaway
Five testers, nine anonymized pairs, 1,912 collective miles across the Front Range and the Columbia River Gorge. When the tape came off, the shoe with four first-place ballots cost $150 and came from a two-man shop in Bozeman.