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  • What is Fat Tire Biking?

    What is Fat Tire Biking?

     Fat tire biking is exactly what it sounds like, riding bikes on oversized tires. The oversized tires serve a purpose, which is to float on top of soft surfaces such...

    Annie Fast |

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    A Year of UnNew: Month Two

    Welcome back for month two of Geartrade writer Emma Athena's “Year of UnNew” chronicles. This month, she learned three things: You can furnish most of an apartment for less than...

    Emma Athena |

  • Geartrade seller highlight: Lone Pine Gear Exchange 

    Geartrade seller highlight: Lone Pine Gear Exchange 

    Browse Geartrade long enough, and you’ll see quite a few “regulars” among the gear sellers. Among the most prolific is Lone Pine Gear Exchange; they seem to have an incredibly...

    Beth Lopez |

  • Woman paddling showing Mustang Helix Dry Suit

    What is a Drysuit?

    While drysuits are the perfect tool for extending your paddling or fishing season into fall, or starting it early in the spring, drysuits can be an I-need-to-save-up-for-this type of expense....

    Emma Athena |

  • Geartrade: Guide to Winter Layering 

    Geartrade: Guide to Winter Layering 

    In Scandinavia, there’s a saying: “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.” It seems like a pretty grand promise, but we can tell you that it’s true:...

    Beth Lopez |

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    What is The Powder Highway?

    The Powder Highway is less-glamorously known as 95A, it’s a 630-mile loop that passes through, at last count, more than 60 different ski areas, heli-ski ops, backcountry lodges, guided snowcat...

    Annie Fast |

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    Introducing a Year of UnNew

    The Challenge: go an entire year buying UnNew goods except for food and medical supplies. The idea is daunting, but now, more than ever before there are more opportunities to...

    Emma Athena |

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    How to Build a Sustainable Ice Climbing Kit

    Buying pre-loved gear is the most sustainable way to kit yourself out, and the best way to support Mama Earth as you wander her rapidly warming canyons and tundras in...

    Emma Athena |

  • Colorado Landry

    Leave No Trace Tips: Winter Edition

    Ahh, the winter wonderland, a muffled landscape of snowy trails and slopes. Resplendent in white, untouched by man… well, until we start showing up in droves to recreate. But just...

    Annie Fast |

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    New Year's Resolutions: Brand Sustainability Edition

    With sustainability goals growing more common in the outdoor and adventure industries, we rounded up some of the most impressive new-year pledges. Which brands are committed to moving toward more-sustainable...

    Emma Athena |