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For Mother’s Day this year, we thought we would showcase some of our favorite women specific gear.\u00a0 Women specific gear is getting better and better.\u00a0 Men are not the only ones with top end gear. We hope this buyers guide will make your Mother’s Day shopping a little easier for the adventure seeking mom in your life. We thank our moms for all the support and encouragement they gave us to get out and play in the great outdoors.<\/p>\n
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Apparel<\/strong><\/p>\n Columbia\u2019s Turn \u2018N Go Softshell Jacket<\/strong><\/p>\n Grab the Turn \u2018N Go and get out there. Treated to resist stains and light showers, it rejects wind to keep your core warm and toasty. Gusset details and 4-way comfort stretch mean you can move with ease and a plethora of pockets for media and valuables (including a zip-closed security pocket and a handy key tab) keeps everything in order. Simple styling creates slimming lines and the high neck zips up to lock out cold. Slip into the cozy thumbholes and head out for an early morning, soul-inspiring adventure. <\/p>\n Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n SeasonFive Technical Watersports Apparel<\/strong><\/p>\n Put Mom\u2019s mind at ease! SeasonFive gear offers protection from wind, water and harmful UV rays \u2013 keeping you comfortable longer! The Barrier Series comes in both a Short sleeve and long sleeve tops, as well as capris. The tops have engineered movement arm holes and has a muscle-supporting fit. The capris have minimal flatlock comfort seams and a foldover elastic waistband. Also banded cuff bottoms and engineered stretch direction panels. <\/p>\n Features:<\/p>\n Mountain Mama’s Clouds Rest Maternity Baselayer Top and Bottom<\/strong><\/p>\n A technical base layer for maternity\u2014because being pregnant shouldn’t mean being cold. Ultra-wicking, super-stretchy Polartec Power Dry fabric creates bulk-free high-tech maternity Features:<\/p>\n SkirtSports Gym Girl Ultra<\/strong><\/p>\n Features:<\/p>\n Footwear<\/strong><\/p>\n XR Crossmax Neutral<\/strong><\/p>\n Features:<\/p>\n Flojos Magdelena<\/strong><\/p>\n MSRP: $ 42.00<\/p>\n Website – http:\/\/store.flojos.com<\/a><\/p>\n Fitness<\/strong><\/p>\n Suunto M5<\/strong><\/p>\n Suunto M5<\/p>\n Outdoors<\/strong><\/p>\n Sierra Designs Rejoice Backpack<\/strong><\/p>\n Features:<\/p>\n Rejoice 30 specs: <\/p>\n Kelty Light Year Sleeping Bags<\/strong><\/p>\n The synthetic-fill Light Year XP series is the perfect bag for backpackers operating in damper climates. Insulated with ECOPET insulation, these bags remain lofty and warm even when the weather turns rainy and wet. All come standard with a lightweight compression stuff sack. <\/p>\n Bag Features:<\/p>\n Light Year XP 20 specs:<\/p>\n Eureka! Apex 2XT Tent<\/strong><\/p>\n Ideal for three season backpacking trips as well as car camping, the new Apex 2XT is a dome tent that measures Features<\/p>\n Climbing<\/strong><\/p>\n Metolius Safe Tech Women’s Deluxe- Improved<\/strong><\/p>\n Features:<\/p>\n Accessories<\/strong><\/p>\n Julbo Alagna<\/strong><\/p>\n The Alagna distinguishes itself with remarkable lens protection of the photochromic Falcon lens or the Spectron 3 lens. The Alagna will be offered in variety of fashionable colors.\u00a0 The white\/blue and chocolate\/lime frames come with Spectron 3 lens, MSRP $76, or the black\/fuchsia frames with Falcon lens, MSRP $180.<\/p>\n Website – http:\/\/www.julbousa.com<\/a><\/p>\n Hydro Flask<\/strong> The non-porous 18\/8 stainless steel material means that it is highly resistant to and doesn\u2019t retain bacteria, odor and flavor. It makes it easy to clean and transfer from the morning coffee, to afternoon water to something different in the evening with ease. The patent pending mouth solves the age-old problem of spilling water down your front with a unique design that allows liquid to flow easily in a straight line and into your mouth, but is big enough to fit ice cubes, powder drinks and tea bags. It comes backed with a lifetime warranty, keeps hot drinks hot for up to 12 hours and cold drinks cold for up to 24 and all are equipped with double wall vacuum insulation, which prevents the transfer of heat from the inside to the out. You won\u2019t burn your hand holding the bottle with hot coffee inside or feel the \u201ccold sweat\u201d from cold drinks or leave water rings on the desk. The final kicker? These folks at Hydro Flask created Fivepercentback.org that donates 5% of the gross profit back to a nonprofit or charity of your choice.<\/p>\n Hydro Flask 21 oz. Bottle Fenix LD01<\/strong><\/p>\n The extremely small Fenix LD01 LED light is not much bigger than the one AAA battery it uses. This also makes it easy to throw in a purse or any pack. I have been carrying this light in my Features:<\/p>\n Baby Carrier<\/strong><\/p>\n ERGObaby Organic Baby Carrier<\/strong><\/p>\n Features:<\/p>\n For Mother’s Day this year, we thought we would showcase some of our favorite women specific gear.\u00a0 Women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9027],"tags":[9342,46,10,9346,9341,9344,9345,9343,9218,9340],"class_list":["post-4365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-outdoors-articles","tag-buyers-guide","tag-camping","tag-climbing","tag-gear-for-women","tag-gifts","tag-gifts-for-mom","tag-gifts-for-mothers-day","tag-mom","tag-moms","tag-mothers-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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long underwear. Cut to accommodate all stages of pregnancy, the waffle-weave jersey material makes thermals lightweight enough for cold-weather layering and robust enough for lounging or yoga class. Pairs with the Clouds Rest Baselayer Bottom. 2010 APEX Award nominee for design excellence and innovation. Bellyglove is Mountain Mama’s unique curved-front maternity cut that eliminates up-drafts, unflattering draping, and peek-a-boo belly.<\/p>\n\n
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The Gym Girl Ultra was designed with the busy woman in mind. This Skirt is meant to perform and flatter while the user goes for long runs, practices yoga, plays a round of golf and manages a career in between dropping the kids off at school, grocery shopping and coffee with the girlfriends. (This Skirt has you covered when your life feels like a run-on sentence). The built-in shorties have a pocket on each leg to stash your music player, keys, energy gels, ID, cash, you name it! Skirt fave feature: Shorties made of semi-compression mesh perfectly cover the biggest parts of your thighs. Chafe-free styling! Skirt fave feature runner-up: TWO pockets, one on each thigh!<\/p>\n\n
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If your mom is looking for a high mileage training shoe and wants one shoe from door to trail, look no further. The XR Crossmax has Perfect Grip which is found in the new outsole compounds and lug geometry for better traction. It also comes with Salomon\u2019s expertise of the foot, Perfect Fit. The new Sensiflex technology delivers the Ideal combination of foothold and freedom of movement \u2013 Sensiflex is a soft stretchy liner inside the shoe, reinforced by a flexible outside PU honeycomb, which controls and adapt to the foot collapse during the stride Perfect Ride. Perfect ride is effective thanks to the innovative Oversized tendon \u2013 A progressive flex and energized return which greatly improves your speed-workouts.<\/p>\n\n
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A 2 1\/2 inch vegan leather sandal with a padded butterfly embossed sock. Flojos\u2019 distinctive \u201cvegan\u201d leather wedges offer the durability and iconic look of real leather, for less, while also avoiding the use of animal products. This line epitomizes the modern woman: sexy, yet practical and ready to transition between the variety of business, social and family activities that divide her day. The whimsical, butterfly-bedecked, 2\u00bd \u2013inch Magdelena wedge, for instance, features a padded sock, arch support and slim, soft straps for comfort in any setting.<\/p>\n![\"Suunto](\"images\/stories\/suuntom5.jpg\")
The Suunto M5 is the complete multi-sport fitness and recovery partner. Purchasing the M5 with the running pack gives active Mothers the New foot POD mini, Movestick mini and a comfort belt. The mini foot POD wirelessly tracks speed and distance and only weighs 9 grams and is 80% smaller in volume and lighter than previous models. The battery lasts twice as long and works with the t3d t6d and M5. The new Movestick mini is so small it can stay plugged into a computer\u2019s USB all the time. Used to wirelessly transfer training data to Movescount.com and is compatible with Macs or PCs. <\/p>\n\n
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The women’s Rejoice backpack is a 30-liter pack ideal for day hikes or minimalist overnights.\u00a0 Designed around the Fulcrum Suspension system – a state of the art composite and aluminum pack suspension that saves weight while providing outstanding support and comfort – this pack provides outstanding load carrying, comfort and ventilation.\u00a0 This panel loading pack also features hydration compatibility, die-cut foam shoulder straps with mesh panels, and a thermo-molded waistbelt.<\/p>\n\n
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Available in your choice of ECOPET synthetic or 600-fill down insulation, the Kelty Light Year sleeping bags have been fully redesigned for 2011 with new materials and graphics.\u00a0 Women’s specific designs are cut to fit a woman’s contours, providing a comfortable night’s sleep. The Light Year series bags embrace Kelty’s dedication to providing big value for the dollar, offering years of reliable service, comfort and performance without the hefty price tag.<\/p>\n\n
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7’4″ x 4’11” and weighs 5 lbs. 6 oz. and sleeps 2 people.\u00a0 This free-standing tent is constructed with 8.5 mm shock-corded fiberglass poles and features no-see-um mesh for maximum ventilation.\u00a0 The fly is made of Eureka!’s patented 75D StormShield Polyester to withstand the elements.\u00a0 The Apex 2XT Tent has two doors as well as two roomy vestibule that measure 13 sq. feet each for gear and footwear storage.<\/p>\n\n
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The Safe Tech Deluxe isn’t new, but it has recently went under an overhaul for some great improvements. Designed specifically for women the Safe Tech Deluxe is loaded with features. Two belay\/rappel loops make setting up for rapples and multi-pitch belays easier. While four gear loops with improved configuration make it easier to rack and carry what you need.<\/p>\n\n
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The new Alagna is a women\u2019s model that achieves the longing feat of combining vision technology and beauty, with frames designed for smaller female faces, and curved lenses that avoid contact with eyelashes. All Julbo lenses are optical category 1, guaranteeing 100% protection against UVA, B and C radiation.<\/p>\n![\"Hydro](\"images\/stories\/21oz_standardmouth.jpg\")
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MSRP $25.99
www.hydroflask.com <\/a><\/p>\n![\"Fenix](\"images\/stories\/fenixld01_big.jpg\")
commuter bag for a month now and it comes in handy when a little light is needed. Its 3 modes allow the user to select the best compromise between brightness and runtime for any given task and to aid in an emergency. The light produced by the Fenix LD01 can be best compared to many flashlights ten times its size. The compact size, solid reliability and lightweight build of the LD01 make this light perfect for every day carry.<\/p>\n\n
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If the mom in your life has small children and loves to be active the ERGObaby carrier is great. This carrier may be worn in front, back and hip positions and can carry a kid up to 40 pounds. The carrier is made of Organic cotton twill, for a more elegant look and feel. Check out a full review of this product on this website here. http:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/gear-reviews\/63-children\/159-ergobaby-organic-carrier<\/a><\/p>\n\n