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Where to See the Tallest Free-Standing Totem Pole on Earth

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You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery

Check out our CM product review of the hottest product in wellness right now: the Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot. Spoiler alert -- it’s a gamechanger!

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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It

They've explored 10,000 miles together. Here are their essentials.

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

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The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

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Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

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Mojo Contact Lenses Essentially Give You Superpowers

It seems like these days everything tech is all about the Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality experiences that all our favorite brands and sites can provide. Now you can finally skip the giant goggles and the weird, multi-colored glasses in favor of something better--Mojo Lens smart contact lenses. With a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Airbus Flying Whale Beluga XL Aircraft Has Taken Flight

Airbus has never been a company to shy away from injecting a bit of fun into their functional airplanes. They also seem to have a thing with animal names and designs--see the Airbus Bird of Prey Concept Airliner--and that's never been as true as it is with the Beluga XL.…

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Nike ACG Air Terra Antarktik Winter Boots

Over the years, Nike has produced quite a few interesting releases under their All Conditions Gear (ACG) label. Joining the likes of unique offerings such as the Tallac Flyknit Boots and the campsite classic ACG Moc are these upcoming Nike ACG Air Terra Antarktik Winter Boots. If we're being completely…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Seiko Prospex Black Series Limited Edition

Seiko's Prospex line of tough timepieces just goes to show you don't have to spend huge money to get a great automatic watch. Their new Black Series takes on a decided dark look for some of the best affordable dive watches on earth. Each version gets a bluish-black hard case…

By Amos Kwon
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‘The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife’

There are quite a few different things we'd like to revisit from our childhood, but chief among them is our adolescent love of cracking open fresh wax packs of baseball cards. There's just something about a newly opened collection of fifteen cardboard ball players and a stick of bubblegum that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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