Gear Patrol | Spirit of Adventure, Passion for Gear

Photography by Ryan Plett of You Have Broken the Internet While most of the country continues to get buried in snow, there’s never a better time to start planning your next getaway. The new Marine Canvas Duffels from Wharf are a perfect way to lug your kit at wallet-friendly prices. Drawing inspiration from Wharf proprietor [...]

Protection, Minus the Bulk

Toting around your SLR, a couple of lenses and the multitude of other accessories you need to get your Terry Richardson on can be a bulky proposition. The Cocoon Tribeca ($50) aims to ease your pain. The bag features two main compartments, one for your DSLR and a second to hold up to two additional [...]

Pens literally mightier than the sword.

Quite literally embodying the old adage that “the pen is mightier than the sword,” tactical pens are made for double-duty writing of grocery lists and as a last-ditch self-defense tool. Typically machined from solid metal and combined with pressurized ink cartridges, tactical pens are writing implements that take whatever abuse you could possibly throw at [...]

Thick and toasty

Outlier continues to crush it harder than David Ortiz circa 2004 (RIP). Their most recent addition, the Chalk Stripe Overshirt, comes from a collaboration with New York’s Chari & Co. The shirt is constructed from a “thick and toasty worsted wool that’s so soft we’re convinced there is some cashmere snuck in the mix” and [...]

Ruck Rider

Whether it’s for your next deployment or your 9-5 cubicle infiltration, GORUCK will have your 6. GORUCK rucksacks are designed by a Special Forces Operator and made in the USA from 100% military grade materials. Those stats are good enough to pique our interest, but the GORUCK lineup features much more:

An Expansive Perspective

Add the Sigma 8-16mm Ultra Wide Angle Zoom Lens to our ever expanding list of coveted photography toys. The Sigma 8-16mm lens is the widest angle zoom lens currently in the market, built specifically for DSLR’s with APS-C sized sensors. What this means to you, is it provides the equivalent angle of view to a [...]

Hart Steel from the Heartland

What man hasn’t had a draw to straight razor shaving. Maybe its the simplicity, maybe its the timelessness, maybe the “green-ness,” but we’d guess a large portion is because it’s flat-out badass.

A Heritage Bag From a Modern Day

Reading Gear Patrol and seeing all the bags we feature, you might think we live by the motto “the measure of a man is how many bags he owns.” Well, here’s some more proof to that theory – our newest luggage obsession, the Archival Clothing Rucksack ($240). Archival Clothing started out as a place to [...]

A New Contender

If you hadn’t noticed, we have a penchant for shoes made in the US here at Gear Patrol. So, when Oak Street Bootmakers hit the web with yesterday announcement it was a perfect storm to win our lustful eye. Based out of Chicago, Oak Street was founded by George Vlagos to carry on the shoe [...]

Bringing Back the Brit

Britain has a wealth of history. With the exception of being responsible for Greenwich Mean Time, most of that history has little to do with the watch world. Bremont, from our account, seems ready and poised to change that by bringing a British timepiece to the table and producing some awe-inspiring timepieces. GP got to [...]

A Home Run for Trousers

Its always fun to stumble onto a new brand that seems as if it’s designing with you specifically in mind. You look at their line and say things like, “Wow, I always thought that would be cool!” or “Damn those look perfect.” That sums up how we felt when we were lucky enough to run [...]

Real Icing, Bros

When we described the Moji Knee as an icing smart bomb last summer, we weren’t joking around. It did and does everything as advertised and has been a real life saver. So, when Moji let us know they were releasing a Moji Back, we decided to give it the Gear Patrol hands-on treatment. The Moji [...]

Beaches Optional

In addition to the Orlebar Brown Boxer, we also got to check out the Monocle Edition ($180) of the Bulldog shorts. The new Bulldogs have an updated cut, that’s a little more forgiving in the waist and seat, as well as a new fabric which is slightly less coarse. The best part of the Monocle [...]

For a Genteel Summer

Last summer we got to try out Orlebar Brown’s Bulldog ($138) short, an excellent beach/swim short. The ladies were big fans and we were too as we found the quality, well, stellar. New for this year Orlebar Brown has released two “Sport” shorts, the Boxer and Pup. Being such big fans of the Bulldogs, we [...]

Pure Summer Whites

When Seavees created the Pantone Plimsoll ($125) they must have agreed with our sentiment that a clean pair of canvas shoes belongs in every man’s closet, especially come summer. Combining it with Pantone’s original 1963 color palette was simply a stroke of genius.