Category: Gear Reviews (Page 34 of 45)

Gear Review: Blizzard Survival Bag

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To start off I must say that luckily for me I have not had to use an emergency blanket or the Blizzard Survival bag in an actual emergency but I do know the value of having one. The Blizzard Survival brand of emergency protection gear has done a nice job in creating a product that works. Their thermal protection products have a lightweight and compact design, making them ideal for taking with you on a hike, climb or even have in an emergency preparedness kit.

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Gear Guide: Spring 2012 Hiking

Hi-Tec Sierra Lite I WP

Spring is here and we here at Open Air Life are excited to get out hiking. This guide is full of gear that will make your spring hiking a little bit better. We start this guide with some great shoes for our feet. After all our feet are what will carry us all those miles that we hike. We will also be putting out a shoe guide in the coming weeks of some of the new hiking shoes coming out spring 2012. We hope this guide will encourage and excite you to get out this spring and find a new hike.

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Gear Guide: Travel Spring 2012

Kiva Messenger Bag

Springtime is a great time to start planning or even going on your next great adventure. We have contacted hundreds of companies this spring looking for the best gear to include in our Spring 2012 Gear Guides. We hope that you find the information in this guide useful. Most of us seem to need our electronics, so a few of these products will help your electronics travel better, and at the same time give you peace of mind. Happy Traveling!

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Gear Guide: Spring 2012 Running Shoes

Salomon Athlete Scott Markewitz

We thought we would post this gear guide towards the first of spring in order to help us get out and start training earlier. This gear guide is packed with 11 new shoes for 2012. The first 9 are designed for running trails and the last 3 are for the road. We know shoes are a personal thing to many people, so we suggest that you look over the guide and find what shoes might work for you, then head over to your local running company and try them on. We also tried to indicate if the style were men’s only, women’s only or both.

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Spring 2012 Gear Guide: Camping

Hennessy Hammock

With winter coming to an end and spring on its way, it is now time to start looking forward to what is new for spring 2012. Our first guide of spring is going to be camping. If you are looking for a new tent or a sleeping bag we have listed both. We will be posting spring gear guides for the next couple of months, so check back often to see all the other categories that we cover. Also we always welcome any questions or comments. If you have a specific thing you are looking for and cannot find it, make a comment and we will try to get you an answer.

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Gear Review: Icon Irix Headlamp

Icon Irix

Looking for a headlamp and overwhelmed by all the options? The Irix by Icon is a solution for those people who are looking for a headlamp that can be dialed in for a certain light output. This headlamp come loaded with features, one being the oversized dial on top of the light to easily control the output levels of the light from 5-35 lumens. The dial is even big enough to use while wearing gloves.

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