It’s a common notion that you have to spend a lot of money to get outdoors. After all, there is a ton of fancy gear on the market, but our advice is to always start on the cheap. If you fall in love with it, you can always upgrade later.  Backpacks are a perfect example. [...]

There’s a progression that happens with any piece of truly functional gear. What once “cut the cake” is often replaced with a precise tool designed specifically for the job at hand. Over the years, I’ve replaced street shoes with hiking boots, gas station sunglasses with polarized, and one-use water bottles with stainless. The more you [...]

Mindshift has come up with a solution to the following problem. How do you access your backpack without taking it off? The solution is called the Mindshift Rotation 180 Trail backpack. What happens when you are hiking see a Bald Eagle flying by? Instead of stopping, taking your backpack off, unzipping the back and hope you get the picture, [...]

Overview: This is the Timbuk2 Sunset Backpack. The Sunset collection is a new collection for Timbuk2 that they are launching this year and will be available for the back to school period in 2015. What these bags are really all about is that casual weekend use. So if you’re going out with your friends, you’re [...]