gear review

Injuries are a fact of life for outdoor athletes. Breaks, bruises, sprains – you name it, come Monday morning there’s a fair chance that someone in our Active Junky office will come in ruffed up. When it happens to you, there is nothing to do but grin and bear it… Read the rest

 
When you’re skiing you want you eyes focused solely on the prize – shredding the nastiest lines, stomping moguls and feeling like you’re flying. However, when your vision is clouded by fog or muddled by flat light your chances of killing it on the mountain fall to zero. Plus,… Read the rest

Anybody who has cycled in standard jeans knows their drawbacks: bunched in the front during your sprint to make it work by 9 am, wide cuffs that get chewed by chain rings, and the seat, where best case scenario is a faded bottom and disemboweled decorative stitching and at worst… Read the rest

Mark Twain once said, “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” The same can be said about outdoor gear. Very rarely do you see outdoorsy people wearing little or no clothing. Instead, in the outdoors, it is a woman who makes the clothing decisions;… Read the rest

‘Statement Shoes’ are shoes that I painfully select prior to every trade show I’ve ever had the wonderful opportunity to attend. Being in sales and marketing, it seems the most arresting and interesting shoes pave the way  for conversation with even the most fashion-phobic, granola eating, bouldering lover of all… Read the rest

It weighs in at 2.4 ounces, unfolds to 20 liters worth of space, and compresses down enough to dangle from your keychain. One review argues that the daypack is convenient, but that it’s just a “basic sack” that would work better for trips to the grocery store than serious hikes.… Read the rest

Ever wonder what it’s like to have twice the ass? Need an extra trunk to store your junk? This is it. The Peach, designed by Yen-Hsiang Skeet Wang, is the greatest thing to ever happen to backpacks. Inspired by the need to recycle in comical fashion, Wang used his creative… Read the rest

The skin on your hands is every bit as beautiful and important as the skin on your cute little bum, so why not treat it with the same level of respect? Well now, thanks to Handerpants, you can.
The visionaries behind Handerpants have harnessed tighty whitie technology to create a… Read the rest