2014 Gear Of The Year: Yumbutter If you’ve ever been out hiking and craved a peanut butter sandwich or a good banana with peanut butter on it, then you know how unrealistic it may be to whip out a jar of your favorite peanut butter, grab a knife, and spread it on your food of [...]
2014 Gear Of The Year: Yeti Hopper Cooler We’ve all been there. We fill our coolers for the weekend with our favorite beverages on a Friday only to have a pool of lukewarm water on Saturday afternoon. It’s sad. It’s unacceptable! But keeping things cold isn’t the only problem with most coolers. When you think [...]
2014 Gear Of The Year: CRKT Eat’n Tool Imagine you’re starving out in the middle of nowhere. You find a metal box that holds a hearty bowl of soup, a steak, and a bottle of your favorite beverage. This metal box is bolted shut. For this endeavor you can only use one tool. What are [...]
2014 Gear Of The Year: OneLog Fire There is just something about sitting around a fire – big or small. That flame seems to hold special powers, allowing us to relax and enjoy the time spent with nature. Campfires are usually reserved for those weekend trips camping or to a cabin, as most city dwellers [...]
2014 Gear Of The Year: Solo Stove On a crisp Fall morning, we rolled out of our tent in desperate need of a warm cup of coffee. You know that feeling. After 20 minutes of gathering tinder, lighting the wood and waiting for an optimal campfire flame, we finally got to start our cup of [...]
2014 Gear Of The Year: Aquapac Toccoa Drysack With an endless amount of brands and types of backpacks out there, researching the perfect backpack can be exhausting and overwhelming. The question you need to ask yourself on your quest for the perfect pack is, what will I use it for the most? At 50 Campfires [...]
2014 Gear Of The Year: Nemo Helio Shower We all have friends that don’t share the love we have for the outdoors, but that doesn’t stop us from expand their comfort zones. The biggest complaint we get when trying to convince them to join one of our camping trips is “A weekend with no shower? [...]
2014 Gear Of The Year: Saddlebaby *Pack One of our fondest memories growing up was a daily routine of being lifted on our dad shoulders and carried home from the bus stop. It was fun, a great way to bond a sweet new perspective from that vantage point. Kids love to be carried on their [...]
2014 Gear Of The Year: GRAYL Quest Filtration Cup Lets face the facts – water has shaped our landscapes and nearly every civilization. Water is vital to all life on this planet and we need it to survive. Still though, there are many people who do not have access to safe, clean drinking water. And [...]
2014 Gear Of The Year: Braven BRV-Bank A generation ago, when people headed into the woods they carried a map and a compass for navigation, and matches in case of emergency to start a fire. The campers of today are a different story. They don’t want to leave their vehicle without their smart phone, tablet [...]
