Adventure Travel Gear & Apparel

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors.Ride the elevator with Mike Baker, founder and CEO of SOLE.Years ago, SOLE began a journey down a new sustainable path, committing ourselves to ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors.Ride the elevator with Haley Robison, Kammok founder.Kammok's All Adventure Camp Blankets are packable, three-part kits that are fast, intuitive, ...read more

Royal Robbins, the U.S. outdoor and travel apparel company founded by the iconic climber with the same name, has been acquired.Fenix Outdoor International AG announced Wednesday that it has signed an agreement and acquired 100 percent of Royal Robbins, with consolidation to be ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors.Ride the elevator with Lawson Hammock Founder Wes Johnson:Our Gravity Chair is an extremely compact, portable, lightweight "hammock chair" that ...read more

For almost every day of Charley Friedman’s life growing up, his commute included a ferry ride from Peaks Island to Portland, Maine, the state's "biggest little city." Everything he'd need each day, from a rain shell to his laptop and schoolwork to his lunch, had to fit into one, ...read more

In 2012, MPOWERD was founded and the Luci light was created – an inflatable solar light with the goal of making an affordable clean energy product that people could use in any situation. Luci taps into a source of light that’s limitless and readily available to everyone on our ...read more

With a family legacy dating back to 1965, Ecōths is a men’s clothing brand that brings together the triple bottom line of People, Planet and Product. As the “brother” company to family-owned and -operated Aventura Clothing, we balance business and goodness with our 3 Campaign, ...read more

Ride the elevator with Seek Dry Goods co-founders Amanda and Larry McMahon. The idea for Seek Dry Goods began back in July 2016 in the village of Chamonix, France. We had just completed the incredible 100-mile Tour du Mont Blanc trek and all we wanted was a new t-shirt to bring ...read more

We at Tenkara Rod Co. have revolutionized tenkara fishing products by making them stronger, simpler and extremely portable. We’ve re-engineered the design of tenkara rods to make this style of fishing accessible to a far greater audience than ever before, and we have inspired a ...read more

It’s not often that a retail store makes its own products. Sure, there are branded caps and tee-shirts in all the best shops. But founder of Denver-based Feral Mountain Co., Jimmy Funkhouser, actually made the conscious decision to keep’s his store’s name and logo off his new ...read more

More than half of Puerto Rico’s population remains without access to clean drinking water after Hurricane Maria left the island in devastation. As we see the turmoil unfold from the comfort of our homes, we all wonder ways to help after a natural disaster. Take a cue from MSR, ...read more

I am an internationally award-winning industrial designer from New Zealand who quit my job to build better tools for bicyclists and outdoorsmen. The ability to build advanced tools is a key characteristic behind what makes us human, and refining them to the point of perfection ...read more

President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Thursday that will lower costs for backpack, duffel bag, and other travel goods manufacturers.The "Presidential Proclamation to Modify Duty-Free Treatment Under the Generalized System of Preferences and for Other Purposes" is a "major ...read more

With four generations of local shop owners before her, Patty Boydstun-Hovdey was destined to open Hometown Sports in McCall, Idaho. For Maine Sport Outfitters in Rockport, a 35,000 square foot retail space is eclipsed by the outdoor playground of their guide service. Onion River ...read more

Adventure travelers love the Cotopaxi Allpa Travel Pack for its innovative design, technical materials and components, and its ridiculously rugged good looks. It's carry-on compliant and features a splay-open design for convenience and a tough TPU-coated 1000D polyester, with ...read more

Take a look at the numbers: Outdoor recreation contributes $887 billion per year to the U.S. economy. But take a closer look, and you’ll see something staggering: Only 21 percent of that money is spent on the gear and apparel we’re producing. The rest? It’s spent on travel, ...read more

Marmot GM Joe Flannery is promoted, and will now lead Newell's technical apparel division. Joe Flannery has left his post as general manager of Marmot to take on a new gig with parent company Newell, leading both Marmot and ExOfficio. His new title is Newell Brands Senior Vice ...read more

As much as the outdoor industry might hate to admit it, the shutterbug wandering the streets of Rome has many of the same needs as the guy waiting for his backcountry skis to come through baggage claim. The overlap between what travelers and outdoorists want is even bigger than ...read more

RIGHT NOW, AS YOU READ THIS, I’M CRUISING THROUGH THE TETONS with my husband and two boys in a 32-foot rented RV stuffed with a couple of tents, a pile of sleeping bags, packs, boots, a stove, a grill, a big cooler and four chairs. I’ve been dreaming of this classic family ...read more

Go ahead, leave it out in the rain. Mountain Hardwear's OutDry Duffel will keep your stuff bone dry. Mountain Hardwear's new OutDry duffel line represents a new use for parent company Columbia's waterproof/breathable fabric construction. Up until now we’ve seen OutDry ...read more

Columbia's new OutDry Extreme ECO Shell takes a huge leap toward sustainable outerwear. For years, technical apparel makers have been searching for a way to produce a rain jacket that’s PFCfree but will still keep you dry in extreme weather. (PFCs are perfluorinated compounds or ...read more

MSR's new Trailshot Microfilter is light, packable and easy to use. The MSR Trailshot is a superlight, superpackable water filter. MSR bills it as ideal for speed demons--trail runners, mountain bikers, fastpackers and the like--but this filter will appeal to any backpacker at ...read more

Throughout the next month, SNEWS will recap its coverage of Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2015 with select stories from the O.R. Daily we published at the show Jan. 20 – 24. It’s an opportunity for you to catch up on stories you might have missed in O.R.D., and for us to update ...read more

There’s a background story to every piece of new gear you see at outdoor retail. There are tales of design concept, manufacturing and marketing, right down to how the company hired and kept the employee who came up with the next great idea. Bringing all those pieces together is ...read more