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Outdoor Retailer: Klymit Inertia X Frame pad
What looks like the bare bones skeleton of a sleeping pad, is really the minimal, ultralight (9.1 ounces) Inertia X Frame pad from Klymit.
Outdoor Retailer: "Lightest Double-Wall Shelter in the World"
Terra Nova's double-walled tent tips the scales at just over a pound, but you'll want to check the sticker price before jumping for joy.
Outdoor Retailer: Building a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife -- by hand
Anyone with twenty-five dollars to spare can go out and buy a Victorinox Spartan multi-tool. But, making your own by hand? That's priceless. I was lucky enough to make my own Spartan, thanks to Victorinox's Brian Ordway who patiently walked me through the process at Outdoor Retailer.
Outdoor Retailer: Easton Mountain Products
How do you make a tent pole up to 59 percent lighter and leave out the shock cord? How do you protect a trekking pole's grip from vibration in any direction? Ask the folks at Easton, a true development company.
Outdoor Retailer: Columbia Sportswear acquiring OutDry technology
Columbia's purchase of OutDry, the Italian maker of high-tech waterproofing fabric, raises the stakes in the race to develop waterproof/breathable fabrics.
Outdoor Retailer: Day One Round-Up
What stood out after a full first day on the show floor? Shells from Outdoor Research, GoLite, and Rab. New GoLit packs, and sleeping bags from Sea to Summit and Sierra Designs.
Outdoor Retailer: Kelty lights, vintage packs, pads
Kelty introduces its first ever line of lights for spring 2011, along with vintage-inspired day packs, and new sleeping pads. Scott Kaier showed us the goods.
Outdoor Retailer: Icon flashlights and more product highlights
Flashlight brand Icon has a clever twist on LED technology. Columbia tries to best the performance of all the "waterproof/breathable" fabrics out there. And other OR highlights from Coleman, Eureka, and Thorlo.
Outdoor Retailer: New Brands — Mile High Mountaineering and Mountain Mama
Outdoor Retailer is a great opportunity to meet the people behind the brands that design and make outdoor gear. It's especially interesting to meet new brands and people, the ones hoping to find a place for their product in the outdoor world.
Outdoor Retailer: Texting from the trail with SPOT and DeLorme
We take the DeLorme Earthmate PN-60w with SPOT Satellite Communicator out for a hike, and ponder the nature of communication in the backcountry.
Outdoor Retailer: On the water at Demo Day
Water — getting on it by kayak, canoe, or paddleboard, or keeping it out with a waterproof case — was a mainstay of the Open Air Demo at Jordanelle State Park today.
Outdoor Retailer: Welcome to SLC
The Trailspace crew is now in (or on its way to) Salt Lake City and preparing for a very full week at Outdoor Retailer.
We've got new Trailspace hats!
If you've already got the free stickers, you can now show off your love for the Trailspace backcountry community on the trail and around town with a new...
We're Headed to Outdoor Retailer Summer Market
Where else can you find dehydrated meals just for backpacking pooches, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, a device that charges your GPS or phone...
Gear: You say hydration pack, I say party on my back
The other evening, I was walking to a restaurant here in Maine. The town was happening that night — a summer festival, boat races on the river, people...
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