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This is part four of a multi-part series. The next installments will be published in the coming weeks. You can read the entire series here. We've reached the point in our analysis of the 2020 Retailer Survey results when we start digging into individual product categories to ...read more

It's 7 a.m. on a weekday in October and I'm meeting  Becky Day, marketing manager at Brunton Outdoor Group, for a pre-work hike. We're two of four cars in the parking lot at the trailhead for the Spring Brook Loop near Boulder—one of her favorite hikes in the area. It's early ...read more

In the hustle and bustle of Brooklyn and Los Angeles, outdoor lovers take refuge in a naturally-lit, well-curated gear store, Hatchet Outdoor Supply Co., stocking only the most fashionable and functional products. KEEN, Mystery Ranch, Mammut, and Fjällräven blend tastefully ...read more

Some call them waist packs or hip belts, others call them fanny packs. Some wear them to Disneyland, others wear them hiking or fastened to their bikes. Whichever your preference, these compact bags are trending right now—up 50 percent as of November—and numerous outdoor brands ...read more

Now that it's officially spring, we're itching to get on a trail that's not covered by snow. Not far from our office in Boulder, the Flatirons and foothills beckon us to trek up its peaks and valleys on our lunch breaks or after work. A daypack is essential to hold our water, ...read more

Meet the future of the outdoor industry. These four have a fierce determination to create a new path forward for the outdoors, and they're doing it with a degree of awareness and intersectionality we've never seen before. 1. Outdoor education Pinar Ates Sinopoulos-Lloyd, 30, ...read more

Retailers keep telling us that the travel category is exploding and in some stores, travel sales are even surpassing camping and backpacking sales. Shoppers are looking for versatility—something they can take car camping and on the airplane and on an expedition. While duffels are ...read more

To put it bluntly, Supreme is the cool kid on the block. The one whose lack of effort seems unattainably chill, whose attention you’re dying to grab but can’t ever seem to figure out how to get. Even if you think you don’t know them, you’ve almost certainly seen riffs on their ...read more

1. Camber Outdoors Thought-Leader Keynote 7 to 9 a.m. at the McNichols Civic Center Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave.: Speakers Steve Rendle, chairman and CEO of VF Corporation, and Rue Mapp, CEO and founder of Outdoor Afro, will lead a talk about diversity and being purpose-led ...read more

Colorado's massive mountain ranges and more than 50 fourteeners (mountains taller than 14,000 feet) are more than just pretty postcards. They're money-making economic machines, according to data released Tuesday morning by the Outdoor Industry Association. Every year, outdoorists ...read more