When you go hiking multiple times a week all spring and summer long, it can be easy to get a little stuck in your ways, wearing the same old T-shirts and trousers day in, day out. After years of ...

At some point along the way over the last 20 years, there has been a subtle (or maybe not so subtle) shift to hyper-specialized outdoor gear. I became acutely aware of this last year when I was in the ...

A Seattle-based company whose clothing and outdoor gear are used by mountaineers and hikers worldwide has set up shop in El Monte to produce cold weather gloves for the U.S. military. Outdoor Research ...