Rab Microlight Jacket
September 27, 2009
Rab gets it right with this piece – which is absolutely zero surprise to me since I’ve been lucky enough to be able to check out a few offerings from Rab. As I mentioned in my review of the Rab Latok Alpine Jacket, Rab is an established company in the UK and is making its way across the pond to the US. It’s still a bit of a rare sight in the US to see someone in Rab gear, and I get a lot of quizzical looks and questions when I wear the Microlight out, especially in Alaska where being ahead of anything involving clothing or fashion is pretty much a lifetime achievement. So yeah, I’ve finally done it – been ahead of the fashion curve. Whatever will I do with my life now…
No matter what I decide to do with all this new-found free time, I will definitely be warm and cozy with the Microlight jacket in my clothing arsenal. Like everything Rab, the Microlight is cut trim and slender with a flattering silhouette, yet still maintains good range of motion for climbing. The many baffles keep the down equally distributed and there’s no reason to fear cold spots just because of the baffles. I have tried a lot of insulated jackets with all different types of baffles, and have never experienced the “cold spot” phenomenon, so just relax about that. This jacket is warm, and the baffles provide uniform warmth AND a snazzy, eye-catching look.
The Microlight, like so many other super lightweight insulated jackets these days, stuffs into a pocket for compression. What makes this jacket stand out in the crowd, though, is that the jacket stuffs into an interior pocket, leaving the outside pockets unfettered by zippers. This might make gadget-carriers cringe in fear, but there’s no need to worry – the pockets are also designed differently than the standard, with a more, er, bucket-like (?) shape (why yes, I AM a professional writer) that keeps items secure and hands toasty warm. The pockets aren’t just diagonal slashes, they are curved at the top so that the opening is 100% above the actual body of the pocket. Got that image? No? Well, you’ll just have to write in with a better way to describe it then.
Okay, so if you’re big on the monkey bars, like to ride the Zipper at the county fair, or commonly engage in the kind of ice climbing that requires one to become inverted (like this guy) you might lose some stuff out of the pockets. Otherwise, you’re golden. And you always have the zippered interior pocket if you really really need to be sure something won’t fall out.
I’ve been consistently impressed with Rab – the fit and quality is top-notch. Sizing is also consistent, and is true to real sizing, and I do mean real – not inflated or deflated; so you better order your ACTUAL size, don’t fight it. Most Rab items are cut trim, so take that into account when choosing your size. Me, I like the body conscious fit, so I stay with my regular size and have had good luck with Rab sizing.
I like being the only one wearing Rab locally, but I’m a fan of the company so I look forward to seeing the logo out and about. Rab keeps setting a high bar with each new item, and I think it’s only going to keep getting better.
Osprey Flap Jill Courier
September 13, 2009
Sometimes I don’t have to put something through exhaustive testing, weighing its pros and cons, getting its weight and measure with a jaundiced eye. Sometimes I see a piece of gear and just think “oooh, WANT.” Just like with new relationships, you just KNOW, you know? Of course, months later when it all falls to pieces you’re left with a cynical outlook on the whole thing, and when people coo “when we met, we just KNEW” you think “Yeah, and you thought that about every single relationship you ever had, so you were bound to be right one time, and even a stopped watch is right twice a day, blah blah.”
Good thing Osprey is more reliable than most relationships, because I’ve no fears that the Flap Jill will disintegrate like so many infatuations that came before. Osprey’s quality is consistently top notch and I expect years and years of happiness with my new partner in…carrying stuff. But seriously, I loved the look of the Flap Jill and fell immediately in love with it at OR, and after trying it out in real life my admiration is undiminished. It carries any size laptop easily and securely, and has just the right number of additional pockets and stash places. The main access is nice and big and flops out of the way easily so you can get to all your stuff, but it also straps back down via Velcro AND clips for extra security. I find the Velcro superfluous, but then again I usually do. Speaking of superfluous, there were two extra straps in one of the compartments and I don’t know what they are for. So I dutifully carry them around in case I randomly figure out what they are for. Actually I’m really hoping a reader will just write in and tell me so that I don’t have to strain myself doing my job here.
The Flap Jill makes me almost look forward to going to work. Almost. At least I look forward to packing for work, and that’s a start. The look is cute, it carries lots of stuff, it’s made by Osprey, and it’s named after me. How can you not love it? By the way, you can’t buy it yet, so I can’t link you to a dealer. Aren’t I sweet? Creating a demand for something and then not letting you have it. When I’ve got you whipped into a demand frenzy good and proper, I’ll come back and give you a link. Now slaver away.
Lowa Bora GTX QC Hiking Boot
September 12, 2009
All right, the boss is out of town and she left me the keys to the web site! Yep, she’s off at the Outdoor Retailer trade show and, last I heard, was too exhausted to keep tabs on the site. So, when the cat’s away….the mice do as they’re told. You see, I got back from my trek on the Kesugi Ridge the day the Head Geargal left for the show, and she told me in no uncertain terms that I was to get this review posted while she was gone. The kind folks at Lowa have been waiting long enough, she sternly admonished. And here it is, Thursday already, and I’m just now getting this done. I know HG is busy at the show, but I swear I can feel the glowering from here. So here it is! [And here I am, posting it the following Friday. ahem. -HG]
Thanks, Lowa, for being patient. Sometimes we have to find just the right trip for the gear that comes our way. HG insisted that the Kesugi Ridge trip I was taking would be perfect – and how right she was! Not only is the Ridge a great, iconic Alaskan trip, but I had these nice, lightweight, supportive boots to take along. At first I was concerned that they wouldn’t be beefy enough, since they have a flatish sole and I’m used to a more curved, lugged sole – hard to describe. I even had a little trouble adapting, and turned my ankle a few times before I got used to the soles. That sounds like a negative, but it really wasn’t – Once I got used to placing my foot flat, it wasn’t a problem.
I was actually a perfect fit for this boot as I usually wear regular running shoes for hiking – yes, I’m an outdoors infidel – and I don’t like overly engineered footwear. These boots are kind of like regular sneaks on steroids, perfect for people who want just a little more than a running shoe and a little less than a high-tech clunky backpacking boot. These boots convinced me that I am not too good to wear a hiking boot, especially one as light and comfy as these. They didn’t have any break-in time and were impressively, consistently waterproof. Even though I’m still in trouble for not getting my review in on time, I still win, because I get to abscond with the boots because it’s not as if HG is going to want them back after a week-long backpacking trip with no showers available….
AMK Women’s Travel Medical Kit
September 12, 2009
You may remember my review of AMK’s Women’s Outdoor Medical Kit, and if you don’t, go read it so I don’t have to recycle my tampon, nail polish, and high heel repair kit jokes. I like AMK stuff enough to write a separate feature for their Women’s Travel Medical Kit, which is only slightly different from the Outdoor Edition. My willingness to feature both products has nothing to do with being loaded up with swag at the AMK Outdoor Retailer booth, or Simon’s willingness to provide hand sanitizer after particularly sweaty handshakes, not at all. But really, the welcome from the AMK crew was great and I enjoyed meeting them in person; and yes, the hand sanitizer was a lifesaver. How did I overlook that when packing for OR?
And I really do like this travel kit, especially the packaging. The Women’s Outdoor Kit had one flaw, and that was how items have a tendency to fall out of the pocket when you open the kit; a design rectified in the Travel kit with two fold-out pockets that keep the inner sleeves safe and secure. The kit itself reflects the usual AMK thoughtfulness, with everything you’ll need for a few days abroad. Blisters, small cuts and scraps, feminine “issues,” and stomach ailments can all be addressed with the items that come in the kit, and there is plenty of room for your own additions such as do-it-yourself Cipro and injectable morphine. It’s worth mentioning that AMK can set you up with everything you might need (barring the Rx items), including some great bug repellents and After Bite treatments in several different formulas, if the included wipes aren’t enough – regular (which evidently stings a bit); children’s for, well, children (and Simon, who said he is wary of the sting in the other formulas); and some other kind that I can’t remember and most importantly don’t want to go in from the 80 degree Alaskan sunshine to check on. And to take advantage of this brilliant segue, AMK provides sun protection for lips and skin in little one-use packets in the Travel Kit. Also available are some innovative first aid products like the (obviously) one-use blood clot packages which can be used to stop heavy bleeding, say, from going hunting with Dick Cheney (and that is a DIRECT quote from AMK, too, so feel secure that your medical kits are evil-free) and a really well-thought-out blister kit with the little doughnuts of moleskin already cut out.
One thing AMK did not do is make the kit pink. Evidently this decision was a result of market research during which many women emphatically stated that the kit should not be pink. Well, thanks a lot ladies; I like pink and therefore am disappointed. But for those of you offended by the “shrink it and pink it” method of developing women’s specific gear, you’ll appreciate the light blue packaging. Personally I appreciate that although the tampons are included as a necessary addition for most women, the rest of the kit’s contents aren’t dumbed-down and sissified. It’s a real travel kit with real applicability, and those of us who don’t need the tampons can just use the space for some other women’s thing, like Pureology shampoo, MAC lip gloss, and an iron-on Seven jeans logo for those times when you don’t want to be caught dead wearing Levis.
Mountain Hardwear EV 2 Tent
September 12, 2009
Usually gear names are some crazy mishmash of numbers and letters that only have meaning to the geekiest of the geeky, but pretty much anyone who has been above sea level knows that the EV here stands for Ed Viesturs. Ed (he lets me call him Ed, or at least I’ll just assume I can call him Ed until he writes in and tells me otherwise) has detailed the specs for this tent for Mountain Hardwear, and it’s evident that he’s left nothing out. Wait, he’s left some stuff out, or else this high-altitude mountaineering tent wouldn’t weigh in at an insane five pounds. Okay, so he’s left the vestibule out – it’s built in. He’s left out the minibar and the espresso machine, which, let me tell you, go a long way in convincing me to go climb anything in winter. I had high hopes once I heard about this built-in vestibule thing, but no – the minibar is not similarly included. Ah well, sometimes a Geargal has to take one for the team.
Most of the Geargals have taken this tent out at one time or another. None of them, I have to point out, were doing anything particularly epic so we all feel a little sheepish about toting around the Ed Viesturs name when it’s a balmy 20 degrees out and we’re only at 300 meters. But then we realize that we only have to carry five pounds of tent even in winter, and we feel better. We do find that lots and lots of people want to borrow this tent when they do anything in winter, and the Head Geargal gets a little shifty-eyed when anyone but her takes it somewhere without her when it’s below 50 degrees. She is well known for her lack of tolerance for cold, which is pretty funny for someone who lives in Alaska and runs an outdoor gear blog, so she never likes it when she doesn’t have the warmest tent in the arsenal at her disposal. [Nice. Way to blow my gnarly persona. -HG]
We have mixed feelings about the built in vestibule thing. I suppose if you really are in some sort of desperate situation (and I find 90% of all mountaineering a desperate situation, I admit) you probably would really like having your stuff in the tent with you instead of outside getting assimilated into the snowpack by driving wind and blowing snow. I have to say that personally I don’t mind having all my gear in the tent but you can really tell that Ed is a dude by the way the built in vestibule takes up most of the doorway. It just reminds me of the way I have to step over 8 pairs of dude shoes just to get in the house – a chick would have put the gear space AWAY from the door. Now, I’m sure there is some sort of fancy mountaineering reason why it’s better to have the gear near the door, but I don’t know what it is and as you’re probably gathering from this post, I really don’t know what I’m talking about when it comes to mountaineering. One thing that I understand about mountaineering is that people who do it really like each other a lot; if they didn’t there is no possible way they could tolerate being in a tent this small. For a two person tent these are some cozy accommodations. But that’s OK because I suppose if you’re in an extremely cold environment, close quarters help preserve body heat. And speaking of preservation, this tent is so windproof that it has all kinds of warnings printed on the inside about how you HAVE to open the vents or you are risking suffocation. Eeek! It feels all kinds of bizarre to be opening vents on your tent when it’s really cold out. But I follow directions and was afraid of waking up dead, so I opened the vents as ordered. The tent still stayed pretty warm and for a single wall tent didn’t frost up too badly – but even if it did, there is a cool little zipper in the floor for “frost management.” Now I am dying of curiosity – do high altitude mountaineers really bring along little brooms to help with the frost management? I must know. I mean, is that a luxury item or what? Also I have to mention that it’s hard enough to get dudes to sweep the floor in a normal house, do they really put any time into sweeping the floors of their tents? I just can’t see it.
Well, I don’t know about dudes, but my winter camping trip with the EV2 really proved that chicks don’t mind a little tent maintenance – we swept out the frost like there was no tomorrow. Though admittedly if that cool frost management zipper hadn’t been there, we probably wouldn’t have bothered. So kudos to Ed Viesturs for promoting cleanliness and making dudes think about sweeping. If only I could install a dirt management zipper in my kitchen floor. [Readers, I present to you a winter gear review written by my least winter-ish writer. Well done! Now give me back that tent. - HG]
SkeeterVac
September 12, 2009
A number of OR peeps heard me going on about my new SkeeterVac, the device that sucked up all of my savings and purports to do the same to mosquitos and other biting bugs. I guess it technically isn’t outdoor “gear” but I am outdoors writing this post with the help of my SkeeterVac and it’s my web site so I’ll post irrelevant topics if I want to. But I really don’t think this little beauty is irrelevant – hear me out.
This year I couldn’t use my backyard. At all. I don’t have an epic backyard or anything; just a modest little suburban grass patch, but it was completely overrun by mosquitoes. There was no way to go outside without lighting 40 citronella torches and covering oneself with DEET, and the bugs were still bad. In desperation I dropped almost $500 on the SkeeterVac, grabbing the last one in town and going on blind faith that there is no way a company could stay in business charging that much for something that doesn’t work. And now I’m wondering if that wasn’t the best $500 I’ve ever spent. I got my backyard back! I could weed the garden, hang out on the deck, and play with my dog without being sucked dry by the bloodthirsty hordes of mosquitoes. The difference was noticeable right away – incredible.
The SkeeterVac works by attracting female mosquitoes – the ones that bite – and either catching them on sticky paper or sucking them into the trap, which is basically a little net that holds the bugs until they dehydrate and die. It runs on propane and emits carbon dioxide, just like a human, which is what attracts the bugs. There is also a lure that evidently works on some species of mosquito, but the salesman told me that the Alaska species responded just to the carbon dioxide so not to worry about it, and it seems to be working just fine with just the propane. The SkeeterVac is designed to run 24/7 and is meant to capture the breeding bugs before they can produce thousands of eggs. For this reason it’s best to get the trap out early and leave it running all summer. Mine got in place late, but it still has made a difference. I don’t even have to wear bug repellent in the yard anymore – haven’t had a mosquito bite in the backyard all summer. I can see from inspecting the trap that it’s made a difference in bug population. It used to catch dozens of mosquitoes and now it hardly catches any, because there aren’t any to catch anymore; it’s already got them all.
I can tell when the SkeeterVac is out of gas the second I walk outside because I can feel the difference in the bug population. Even if the trap isn’t catching bugs it’s attracting them, so positioning the trap as far as possible from my house helps keep the bugs away from the house. The sticky paper is a little gross to change and the propane tank needs to be filled every three weeks or so, but it’s a small price to pay for being able to brave the big bad backyard again. All that DEET could not have been good for me, and now I don’t need it until I leave the safety of my own property. So if you find yourself with a spare $500, rest assured that the SkeeterVac is a sound investment in your sanity and blood supply.
Carhartt Double Front Dungarees
September 12, 2009
It seems that gear today is all about ultralight, barely there, shave-every-ounce technical fabrics. If you’re in on that trend you likely wear lots of whisperlight clothing items weighed in ounces and divested of every last extra feature, because nothing weighs you down like a ten gram zipper pull. Ultralight gear certainly has its place, but for some assignments, only the tough will do. So when I accepted a gig demolishing and burning remote structures, I turned to the tried and true: Carhartt. Carhartt is the signature uniform of a true Alaskan, and for good reason – Carhartt gear is absolutely indestructible.
I knew I’d be facing some bushwhacking, hard travel, and grinding physical labor with hand tools, so I went with the standard classic Carhartt double front pants, with a double layer of denim on the fronts of the legs. This isn’t ordinary denim, either. I don’t know what it is but it’s much thicker and tougher than your designer jeans. It’s also thicker and tougher than the denim on regular Carhartt jeans, so I don’t know what the deal is with that. I do know that if you need your tender flesh protected from scrapes, cuts, and gouges, you can’t do better than Carhartt double front pants.
I wore the pants every day, 17 hours a day – much of which was hard labor – for five days, and they have no sign of wear, not so much as a fray or a scratch. And I don’t have so much as a scratch, either! Stomping around a demolished house, banging on things with sledgehammers, building giant bonfires, and using power tools to cut through metal are really great ways to ruin your clothes and cover your legs in bruises, but not with Carhartt. After a trip through the laundry they looked brand new, and my legs were protected completely. I can’t so much as walk to the laundry room without a fresh bruise, so this was a miracle.
I really must be Alaskan because I think the pants are also pretty cute. Maybe that is just the brainwashing brought on by living in this place for a long time – here, we look approvingly on Carhartts and suspiciously on designer shirts. If a dude showed up for a date in Seven jeans and a coiffed hairdo I’d probably laugh myself silly. I wonder why I don’t go out on many dates. hmm. But I really don’t think I had to sacrifice too much form for function with the Carhartts, and I added a pretty significant badass factor as well (in my own mind at least).
Now, be warned, they don’t have lycra or anything like that, so they don’t give at all. I wanted full mobility so I bought two sizes up and didn’t regret it. Even buying two sizes big, I didn’t end up with any gaps at the waist. This is a genius design that even $200 jeans can’t seem to get right. The pants shrunk a little in the wash, but since I bought big, it didn’t matter. They stretched out again pretty quickly. You’ll have a choice of leg lengths, something overlooked far too often on women’s pants. You get nice roomy pockets, that cool carpenter ruler pocket on the side, and nice boot-cut pants that fit well over, well, boots. You also get to have pants that will last for the next decade, and that’s worth $40 if you ask me.
Mountain Hardwear Wayback Pack
September 12, 2009
FINALLY this pack is available to the masses. Wait – damn, this means I’m no longer going to be the only one who has it. I’ve been using it since last fall and it has quickly become my go-to for just about everything. I love it for backcountry skiing because the avy gear pocket is big enough, the main compartment has tons of room, and the fit is good even for smaller skiers. I have ample space for skins, snacks, water, camera, extra clothes – everything you need for a full day in the backcountry. And, best of all, the pack has rear-panel access, which is the only way to go, really.
The Wayback is tough, really tough, which it needs to be to tote around shovels, probes, saws, and other avy gear. The fit is the new-ish style that carries the load down lower than we’re used to; but we like it because of the resulting low-pro fit and the stability of the pack. What really makes me favor the pack, though, is the combination of the roomy avy gear pocket and the bottomless main compartment. It’s a rare pack that can hold a 15″ shovel plus a 300″ probe and leave any space in the main pack to put things, but the Wayback has space to spare. I carry a good deal of stuff when I ski and I’ve yet to max out the pack. Two top pockets and two waist belt pockets round out the pocket selection, including a padded fleece google top pocket. The waist pockets can actually be accessed while you’re wearing the pack so no more pesky dislocated shoulders from trying to reach your camera!
Technically this isn’t a women’s specific pack but it seems to recover well from this deficiency by fitting well, thanks to MHW’s careful attention to detail. The waist belt can cinch small enough for us wee folks and most importantly, the chest strap can be adjusted high up for comfort. Chest straps are supposed to be higher than most people think, but for women this is even more vital for what should be obvious reasons. Evidently the pack comes in “regular” and “long” so perhaps the varied sizing helps fit a greater range of bodies. I’m pretty sure mine is the “regular” size which works fine for 5’5″ me.
The one detail lacking is the emergency whistle buckle that for a while seemed to be standard on chest straps. I like this detail mostly for whistling for my dog, but it would also be great in an emergency so it’s a nice thing to include. Not sure if they’ve just fallen out of favor or what, but I endorse them so it’s obvious no one asked ME before making this vital industry decision. Other than that, the Wayback is all I ever wanted in a ski pack – and a hiking pack, a search pack, a climbing pack….
Leki Diva Trekking Poles
September 12, 2009
If I were not a gear tester, I would never get to try new stuff. Mostly because I am cheap and I hate shopping. Why buy new trekking poles if my old trekking poles still work just fine? So what if I have to disassemble the locking mechanism and rebuild it a few times a year to get it to grip?
So what indeed. I got to check out the new Leki Diva trekking poles, and I found out why it is important to buy new trekking poles more than once every ten years. Of course, before finding this out, I had to get past the fact that these are called the “Diva”. Seriously, now, does EVERYTHING need to be called the Diva? I have Diva boots, Diva jackets, Diva hats, and now the Diva trekking poles. This is lazy marketing and it sucks. It must stop; do you people know what a diva really is? It’s not a pleasant thing and unless you have a serious case of narcissistic personality disorder you don’t want to run around advertising you’re a diva. Interestingly enough, these poles are called the Diva according to Leki, but the poles themselves insist they are called the “Shiva” which I like much better. Go with the Shiva, Leki.
Anyway, since the poles don’t say the word “Diva” on them, I am not embarrassed to carry them in public. So when I did, I was really blown away by the advances in trekking pole technology since I bought my last pair in 1999. The Divas/Shivas are lighter, thinner, and have a much more subtle antishock. The grips are the same size, and I kind of wish they were a little smaller, but they are fine regardless. They still have the twist-grip technology which I find a little cumbersome. Evidently there is another version coming out soon with the flick-lock grip system, which I think might be better. Until then, I’m stuck with spending the first ten minutes of my hike twirling my poles around trying to get them just the right length. Once they’re set, though, they stay where they’re put, which is nice. I’ve had trekking poles slowly shrink all day long until I finally noticed they were at mid-thigh instead of hip level where I put them. The Diva/Shiva locks really do a nice job of eliminating such shrinkage.
My old poles have an antishock feature that is noticeable; if you lean on them you can push them down a fraction. This always seemed like a gimmick to me and actually wastes a bit of energy. The rebound on the antishock on old poles isn’t sufficient to really provide any antishock benefits, so you just waste energy stabilizing yourself on a pole that gives a little. The Diva/Shiva poles allegedly have antishock, but it’s not the same; it’s not even noticeable when you’re going downhill. The result is a much more stable pole that gives the hiker a good, solid placement; much safer and much more helpful. I’m not sure how the antishock on the Diva/Shiva works; I just know that I like it much better.
The weight savings on the Diva/Shiva seems significant. I’m sure there are lighter poles out there, but these are such an improvement over my old pair. It’s not like hauling a pair of bricks along for a hike and occasionally leaning on them. Yet they still feel substantial and strong; very important when descending steep slopes. At my age, it’s not going up the mountains that is hard; it’s coming down, and I need all the help I can get.
The Long-Awaited Relaunch!
September 10, 2009
Welcome to the new and improved Geargals site! After months and months of promises and delays, we finally got our stuff in a pile to bring you this snazzy new site. Based on reader feedback, we wanted a site with more ways for readers to communicate with us and with the industry. The super-snazzy brand spanking new Geargals Forum is now live, for you all to fill up with chatter. So go and chatter, and behave well, for if you are foolish, I shall smite you from the Forum and you will chatter no longer. One other thing about the Forum: it’s for ladies only! Sorry, dudes. I know I’m all about equality but let’s face it, most of the outdoor forums are mostly for dudes with a “ladies room” or some garbage. So this is my way of helping to balance the Internet. However, since the point of this site is to give women more information about gear and outdoor stuff, I will make an exception for industry peeps. So if you’re an industry dude, let me know and you get a free hall pass to wander the forum and contribute in valuable and meaningful ways.
Also new on our site is the much-hyped Geargals Dressup! It’s our most fun new feature and the one many of you have been waiting for. You may have noticed we’ve reviewed a lot of gear since we launched the Geargals site in 2007. We’ve had the privilege of checking out dozens of brands and hundreds of products, and we wanted to find a way to recognize the stand-out pieces from the last year and a half.
In true Geargals fashion, we couldn’t bring ourselves to do some lame, recycled “gear of the year” gimmick, because you can turn to your favorite magazine for that (oooh, the “gear issue!” I think my favorite tidbit of “gear issue” lameness was a feature on “The North Face Jacket.” Um, right, which one? Could it be more obvious that “gear issue” magazines are bunk? Anyway…) Thus, instead of cranking out tired rhymes and the standard studio pics of the “gear of the year” pile, we developed the Geargals Dressup! We chose our favorite products from the last year and made a game out of them. Visit the Geargals Dressup page and choose from all the gear we thought was top-notch, and just drag-and-drop it onto the Geargal and the Geardog to create your own perfect outfit.
We chose the gear for this year’s dressup out of all the products we tested in 2007 and 2008. Featured on the Geargals Dressup this year are:
On Geargal-
Mountain Hardwear Stimulus Jacket
Mountain Hardwear Synchro Pants
Mountain Hardwear Compressor Jacket
Ellsworth Epiphany Mountain Bike
Mountain Hardwear Synchro Pants
Cannondale Roam Bike Shoes
Julbo Trail Sunglasses
Sugoi Neo Pro Bike Shorts
Patagonia Ice Field Jacket
Volkl Queen Attiva Skis
Scarpa Star Lite Ski Boots
Isis Long Jane
Julbo Revolution Goggles
La Sportiva FC 1.1 Hiking Shoe
La Sportiva Nepal EVO GTX Boot
APF Powersox
On Geardog-
D-Fa Sub Woofer Jacket
Ruffwear Bark ‘n Boots Grip Trex
We wanted to feature one of Geardog’s favorite toys, but he loves the Gourdo the best and however we drew it, it looked just….wrong. I’ve gotten some weird looks carrying it around in real life, too, so for now we’ll just say: Geardog likes the Gourdo.
Happy dressing! Keep checking back for the, er, last-half-of-2009 Dressup! And don’t forget to get the conversation going on the Forum!
