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Outdoors

Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors
Outdoors
Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors
By Beau Hayhoe
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Outdoors
A Better Way to Bring the Shade

Shibumi Reinvented Beach Shade. Now It’s Coming for the Pop-Up Tent.

By Cool Material
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
Outdoors
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
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Outdoors
Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in July 2026.

By Cool Material
Health
ChapFix

Men don't use lip balm all that much.  If we do, it's normally in situations where lips actually have a tendency to get chapped--say, ascending a mountain or sailing an ocean. Problem is, when those situations arise, we're usually left with the stuff that is a off-putting shade of purple…

By Wylie Overstreet
ChapFix
Food
Stanley Lunch Box Cooler Set

Likely the last time you used a lunch box was when your shoes fastened with Velcro. Turns out lunch boxes have grown up in the time you have; they're no longer tiny boxes adorned with well-muscled heros. Take Stanley's Lunch Box Cooler set for instance. No matter what situation you…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Food
Boxsal Cardboard Picnic Boxes

There are a number of reasons guys love picnics: looking at women running, working on your tan (hopefully that's just what you tell her so you can look at women), and getting drunk in the middle of the day. The problem of course is the fact that when you're done…

By Cooper Fleishman
Boxsal Cardboard Picnic Boxes
Gear
Logic Lodge’s Sportsman’s Grill

Several years ago one of our editors, on an alpine camping trip, decided to make a fire and grill some food.  We won't go into details, but some lessons learned that day were 1) don't make a fire at 2 in the morning after downing six beers, 2) sleeping bags…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Entertainment
Bear Pong Oversized Beer Pong

You already know what Bear Pong is - it's big ass beer pong. But Bear Pong is careful to point out that "THIS GAME IS NOT INTENDED TO BE USED WITH ALCOHOL or by children under the age of 5 without adult supervision." You know they mean business about the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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