Ryan Stuart, explore's gear editor
Ryan Stuart's tell all blog spot on his gear addiction and life and times as explore magazine's gear editor
Genius: Fixing a flat tire without a spare or patch
Despite my affinity for gear sometimes I hit the trails on my mountain bike without a spare or patch kit. Inevitably it's when I'm pressed for time and rushed out of the house hoping to sneak in a quick ride before something important happens or it gets dark. I always ...
The Edge of Never
I just finished reading the book *The Edge of Never,* by Bill Kerig, the most inspiring page turner I've read in a long time. It's the story of how Kerig took Kye Peterson to ski the Chamonix, France, run where his father Trevor Peterson died in an avalanche. Trevor was ...
Gear guide testing, testing, testing
A tent is sitting on my lawn catching the downpour. Ten pairs of trail runners are covered in mud. Catalogues and fact sheets litter my office. And I’m scrambling to gather gear from testers. This time of year is always the same around my house. It’s Gear Guide season. For ...
A heated jacket. That's right a jacket with electric heat.
- Posted on January 25, 2010 at 9:55 AM
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I'm not kidding. Mountain Hardwear's Refugium Jacket is just that, a little refuge from a Canadian winter with the same kind of heat that makes heated car seats so sweet. (There's a women's equivalent, the Radiance) It has a soft and flexible battery pack, designed by Ardica, that slips into ...
Team kayaking hits the big screen
Jackson Kayaks makes a two person whitewater kayak called the Dynamic Duo. I haven't paddled one in whitewater yet, but have played around with the boat on flatwater. We tandem rolled it, jetted across the lake way faster than we expected and basically had a blast. It's incredibly wide, long ...
