When you’re headed out on a windy day, you want a jacket that keeps you warm, protects you from the wind cutting through your skin like a knife, and isn’t made from a loud fabric that folks might hear three blocks away. My current windbreaker of choice is the Icebreaker Tropos Hooded Windbreaker. Icebreaker is…

There are seemingly endless reasons to hate long-haul flights: cramped seats, indifferent treatment, bad food, stale air, cranky travelers, no room to stretch, and health hazards from viruses to sore muscles to deep-vein thrombosis (DVT). All for combined hours and hours of discomfort. But all with the promise of landing in a different place packed…

Snow is everywhere as we ease into the winter season, and if you haven’t already pulled your winter wardrobe out of storage, now’s the time. It’s also often when we look through the clothing from past seasons that we realize we need one new item—either to replace what we’ve grown out of, or replace what…

Even though we often need to find clothing items that perform well in a variety of conditions to save packing space, it’s hard to beat a soft fleece jacket for warmth and comfort. I haven’t had a go-to fleece in a while, but my current favorite is the Cotopaxi Cubre Full-Zip Fleece Jacket. Made with…

Spring’s hiking trails are all open (except those that still have some late winter snow), and there’s no reason you can’t get out there and see all the new life, from trees to wildflowers to the animals that make the great outdoors their home. Why not hit all those trails in durable, comfortable hiking pants…

Spring has sprung in the Northern Hemisphere and we know what brings all the flowers and green out this season, right? Rain. While we can sing in the rain and still go out adventuring, getting wet can sometimes kill an outing. And packing a heavy rain jacket isn’t always necessary when we want to travel…