When Jill Shuman started pitching retailers her natural blister prevention product, eNZees Foot Soother, in 2016, Backcountry Experience was her first stop. Having built his business on expert bootfitting, Ben Rockis, the store's owner, was immediately all in. "She looked at me ...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 Michael Cohen, owner of Channel Islands Adventure Company. Channel Islands National Park—dubbed “The Galapagos of North ...read more
SAN DIEGO – October 25, 2018 – BLDG Active™, the leader in bringing cutting-edge medical technologies to the active outdoor community announced today the addition of award-winning director and producer, Taylor Steele as Creative Director. BLDG Active’s flagship product, ACTIVE ...read more
Keep up by reading Industry Buzz. Here are today's top headlines: Have a news tip? Email us at snewsedit@aimmedia.com A new study released Monday found that climate change is killing our national parks—and more quickly than we thought. The study looked at data from between 1895 ...read more
A desperate customer who is tired of looking for hiking boots for his hard-to-fit feet walks into an outdoor shop. The bootfitter who greets him gets excited as she hears his plight, because she has a solution. She fits him with a pair of custom-moldable Tecnica boots. He’s never ...read more
Keep up by reading Industry Buzz. Here are today's top headlines: Have a news tip? Email us at snewsedit@aimmedia.com Huge OREC win! California joins seven other states with government recreation offices. The legislature passed a bill to create the Office of Sustainable Outdoor ...read more
On the way to the Beaver Falls, the most remote set of cascading waterfalls in Havasupai, Arizona, Adriana Garcia and Luz Lituma came across something they had never seen before while hiking. Carved into one of the ladders leading to the falls was an arrow and the phrase “Por ...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 John Tighe, president and CEO of ZipLine Medical. ZipStitch is the most advanced wound closure device available without ...read more
Keep up by reading Industry Buzz. Here are today's top headlines: Have a news tip? Email us at snewsedit@aimmedia.com. NEMO Equipment and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) have issued a recall for about 7,500 Stargaze Recliner camp chairs—Recliner, Recliner Low, ...read more
Two Harbors, MN — July 9, 2018 - Granite Gear introduces the Blaze 60 multi-day hiking backpack, an update to their original, award-winning Blaze A.C. 60. Built to go the distance with comfort and durability, the Blaze 60 weighs only three pounds with a 50-pound load rating, ...read more
On Aug. 1, Indigenous Women Hike Founder Jolie Varela and a dozen other indigenous women will take their first steps on the 210-mile-long Nuumu Poyo, more widely known as the John Muir Trail in the Eastern Sierra Nevadas. The three-week journey is unlike anything Varela has done ...read more
Hiking is fun until it's not. And it's usually not when you have a massive blister bubbling under your big toe or your backpack rubs the skin on your hips and shoulders raw. None of these are immediately life threatening—unless you don't treat some of them in time—but they're a ...read more
When I’m hiking a trail with serious vert or one that involves scrambling over rocks, oftentimes I grab my old pair of Brooks running shoes and leave my mid-rise boots behind. I’d rather have a shoe that’s light, unrestrictive, and easy to slip on and throw in the wash, and also ...read more
When the skies get stormy, you want to be dressed for the occasion. Thanks to a generous donation from Under Armour—$20,000 worth of technical rain gear and outerwear—kids participating in Big City Mountaineers (BCM) programs this summer will stay warm and dry. BCM provides ...read more
Outdoor brands who partner with Insect Shield have new evidence to boast about. A recently-released study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that clothing treated with insecticide permethrin really does deter ticks, including those that carry ...read more
On April 16, L.L.Bean sent off the first of 43 pairs of employees relay-style hiking the Appalachian Trail through August. Once the relay is over, collectively the teams will have passed through 14 states and by 20 L.L.Bean stores along the 2,180 miles. Their hike coincides with ...read more
Upon crawling out the woods after hiking many miles, you can't bear to crack open another bag of trail mix or freeze-dried rice and beans. You'd much rather replenish your calories with a hot meal that doesn't require mixing with water boiled over your camp stove. We've rounded ...read more
