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The latest innovations, performance reviews, and buying guides for everything from athletic apparel and footwear to fitness trackers and sporting accessories.

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We Did a Little Sole Searching for Pickup Season
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A Better Way to Bring the Shade

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

By Cool Material
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VESSEL Solved One of the Most Annoying Things About Your Golf Bag

The new Player VI Series gives every club its own space and rethinks the golf bag from top to bottom.

By Cool Material
Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors
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Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors

From the right axe to the perfect sipping whiskey and a proper outdoor speaker, a night under the stars awaits.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Aer Just Launched an All-New Active Collection

Aer is probably best known for their incredibly designed, well built and versatile Fit Pack. In addition to making one of our favorite summer backpacks, the brand makes quite a few other useful bags. All our favorites are getting upgrades because Aer is launching an all-new Active Collection. The new…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Yaket Ice Pack

Our love for great beer is the reason we launched Hoppist and churned out articles like this. It's also the reason we've hit plenty of can releases far from home and dealt with the annoyance of keeping a few cans cold for an extended period of time. The Yaket Ice pack…

By Mike Newman
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HVRNT Axes and Hatchets

HVRNT—it's short for "hivernant," the French word for "winterer"—is a Minnesota-based duo that uses their experience in everything from adventuring and photography to illustration and design to create awesome products of both the digital and physical variety, like the HVRNT wood-burned axes and hatchets. Each of their gorgeous chopping or…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Swear Jar

Maybe you just had kids. Maybe you’re trying to give up four-letter words for Lent. Maybe you just want to weed out a few words from your vocabulary for good. Whatever the reason, a Swear Jar has long been a way to help squash your questionable French. Now, instead of…

By Mike Newman
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Memobottle H2.0 Slim Water Bottles

Memobottle made waves a few years ago with their aptly named bottles that came in popular paper sizes with a squared off profile that made them the perfect water bottles for bags, briefcases and backpacks. After preventing over 1.9 million single-use bottles of water from being consumed and providing clean drinking water for…

By Cooper Fleishman
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