At first glance I thought it odd that Camp Chef’s Everest 2 Burner Stove was named after the highest mountain in the world, since it’s a big, double-burner stove clearly created for car camping. I wouldn’t exactly take the 12-pound Camp Chef Everest on a mountain—no one would. But, as I soon learned upon using the Everest, the […]

 The Patagonia Cragsmith Pack 35L, intended as the ideal sport climber’s pack, is so much more. Aside from an overnight in which I needed a larger-volume pack, there hasn’t been an outing in which I haven’t used this pack since its arrival in early June. This perfectly sized pack quickly became my day climbing and […]

Bringing the Spectron 4 and Camel (Category 2–4) lens to the sunglasses and glacier-glasses market, Julbo is at the forefront of versatility. And the good news is, you can use either lens with the women’s-specific MonteRosa sunglasses. The Camel lens adjusts to different environments, changing according to the intensity of brightness and glare. Whether I […]