I spent the last three winter seasons field-testing bivy sacks on alpine routes from the North Cascades to the Colorado 14ers, dragging ten of the most popular models up snow couloirs, across exposed ridges, and into cramped snow caves at altitude. Some leaked at the seams during a January sleet storm on Mount Baker. Others […]

I spent the last three seasons running layout boats and jon boats through marshes from the Atlantic flyway down to the rice fields of Arkansas, and the single piece of gear that decided whether ducks flared or committed was the grass on my boat blind. After testing eight different mats across roughly 60 hunts, I […]