I have spent the last three beach seasons testing the best beach canopies along the Atlantic coast, and if there is one thing I have learned, it is this: not all sun shelters are built the same. The difference between a relaxing day by the ocean and chasing your shade down the beach comes down […]

Nothing ruins a bluebird ski day faster than a frozen face and fogged-up goggles. I learned that the hard way on a January trip to Colorado, where the wind chill at the summit hit minus 20 and my cheap cotton face covering turned into a frozen, soggy mess before the second run. After that miserable […]

I'll be honest: I used to bring a regular cotton towel on every backpacking trip until one soaked-through 14-pound terry cloth disaster on the John Muir Trail made me reconsider everything. After 90 days of hands-on testing across the Sierra Nevada, Pacific Northwest, and Appalachian routes, our team narrowed down the eight best backpacking towels […]

Nothing ends a backpacking trip faster than a tent that leaks. After years of camping through Pacific Northwest drizzle and Rocky Mountain thunderstorms, our team learned the hard way that factory waterproofing never lasts — which is why we spent three months testing the best tent sealant products on the market for . We ran […]