The Camping Authority Announces Annual Gear Award for the Campfire Defender. Let’s paint a picture: You’re camping at the same campsite for more than one night. Even better, you’ve found yourself in one of the most epic locations that you’ve ever spent the night. Like many epic locations, the trees are big, the grass is [...]
The Camping Authority Announces Annual Gear Award for the Kindling Cracker. We all know that it’s easier to start a fire with split wood than it is with whole logs. The challenge often comes with the “splitting” part of the equation. The majority of the 50 Campfires office has had at least one close encounter [...]
The Camping Authority Announces Annual Gear Award for the Braven BRV-XXL. There are two schools of thought on camping speakers: one being pro-music at the campsite and the other (we’ll call them “wrong”) is against music at camp. Music is the glue that holds our camping trips together and having a speaker that will keep [...]
The Camping Authority Announces Annual Gear Award for the COAST FL75R Headlamp There are a few pieces of gear that are essential for enjoying the outdoors. This is the gear that will save you in a bind and you may not fully understand the importance of having essential gear until you need it most. A [...]
The Camping Authority Announces Annual Gear Award for the 360fly HD camera. Animal fun fact for the day: Dragonflies have 360-degree vision! Another less-fun fact: You, sadly, do not. Lucky for us, technology has caught up to our superhero aspirations of having eyes in the back of our head. 360° video goes beyond creating, editing, [...]
You know the feeling. You’ve been wandering around the department store for the past 2 hours. Reading packaging…picking up items…putting them back down. It’s almost like the holiday gift-buying season is some bizarre stress test that’s designed to take you down. We’ve gathered the products that the outdoor gadget lover in your life will go [...]
You know the feeling. You’ve been wandering around the department store for the past 2 hours. Reading packaging…picking up items…putting them back down. It’s almost like the holiday gift-buying season is some bizarre stress test that’s designed to take you down. We’ve gathered the products that the outdoor lady in your life will love, so [...]
Coming from Minnesota, the lure of hiking an ancient underground lava tube at the base of Mount St. Helens is too good to pass up. With our friends from Hi-Tec, we headed into the abyss, searching for some adventure... Ape Cave is a 2,000-year-old lava tube located just south of Mount St. Helens in the [...]
A good headlamp is an absolute must on any camping trip. There are just too many camp tasks after dark to not bring one. Flashlights are good, but headlamps are better. Specifically, rechargeable headlamps. I had a chance to use the Coast FL75R rechargeable headlamp in a variety of conditions for a week in Oregon. [...]
We awarded gear of the year to the original Solo Stove in 2014 because it was one of the most efficient, well designed pieces of gear to come across our desk at 50 Campfires. The secondary burn at the top of the stove wasn’t just a gimmick. It really worked, and reduced everything we threw at [...]
