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Comparison Review: Arc’teryx Alpha FL Packs

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Patagonia DAS Light REVIEW and Micro Puff Comparison

Patagonia introduced the Micro Puff a few years ago (after years of development), but the [...]

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Field Tested: Arc’teryx Nuclei FL Review

The original Nuclei was pretty much perfect — in my review (link) when this jacket [...]

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Comparison: 35L Alpine Packs

To say that I have a few too many packs would be an understatement. Problem [...]

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Scarpa Phantom Tech 2019 – First Look

The Phantom Tech was introduced in Spring 2016 as a replacement for the venerable and [...]

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Preview: Gore-Tex Pro 2020

This past week, along with twenty or so other media from across the globe, I [...]

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What I Use: Apparel Edition

This coming January will mark seven years of The Alpine Start. If you’ve been following [...]

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Tech Tip: Impact forces during a fall

Petzl’s revamped line of ice tools arrived in climbers’ hands in Fall 2018, and over [...]

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Field Tested: Patagonia Cragsmith 45L

I reviewed the original Cragsmith 35L pack back in 2015 (link), and over the past [...]

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      • 15L to 35L
      • 30L to 50L
      • 45L and up.
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