Kal-El's Vacation Home
Impossibly large caverns 300 meters below the surface. 36 foot translucent gypsum crystals weighing 55 tons. Scorching 136° temperatures and intense humidity – enough to kill a human after 15 minutes of exposure. No, this isn’t the planet Krypton, this is Cueva de los Cristales near the town of Delicias, Mexico. Discovered 10 years ago [...]
Our Twenty-Toed Take on Today's Most Talked About Shoes
Our most astute readers may know that we have reviewed two previous iterations of Vibram’s now ubiquitous FiveFingers. The first marked the introduction of an awesome product. The second offered some useful updates to the original. Now, however, we’ve strapped on the Bikila, which is an entirely different animal than its predecessors. The original FiveFingers [...]
Landlubbers Will Shiver Their Timbers With Camera Envy
There are few places more worthy of high-definition video than the underwater world. Sure, photos are great. But SCUBA diving is such a dynamic, otherworldly experience that still photography has always seemed a bit two-dimensional as a means to convey the experience to landlubbers or to re-live adventures back home. Coral reefs teem with thousands [...]
Good Gear Hunting
Fancy yourself a good navigator? Want some free gear? Well, if you’re going to be in the Roanoke, Virginia area on July 11th, you can run around the woods collecting points toward $40,000 in outdoor loot. Our friends over at Gear Junkie are putting on an adventure race in the wilds around Roanoke. If you’ve [...]
Paintball fans looking to take the experience to the next level should consider hopping the pond and heading to Souhfields Farm at Leicestershire in the UK. There you’ll find a one of kind warfare simulation experience known puntastically as Armourgeddon. If the name didn’t give it away, this facility teaches visitors how to operate real [...]
John Rambo 2010
To date, our experience with Cold Steel knives has taught us that they are unequivocally awesome blades. Though our penchant leans more often towards folding knives, there’s no denying that the purpose-built fixed blade can be an irreplaceable implement. That’s why, whether you are a Navy Seal or a backwoods weekend warrior, the Cold Steel [...]
Friendlier Than Your Ghostly Pal
Recently, I accepted a job as a camp counselor and quickly realized that I needed a new sleeping bag. While my L.L. Bean bag has served me well in the past, it was too heavy and thick for my needs in the warmer months. I started searching for a lightweight alternative and came across the [...]
Old Ruck Come Anew
The Altadena 802 Rucksack ($275) is a new backpack that looks old, and that’s a good thing because it looks damn good doing it. It’s a top loading tube shaped ruck, with a zip open pocket on the top flap. It also accepts additional pockets that strap onto the side (shown above) providing you enough [...]
Roan If You Want To, Roan Around The World
When it comes to staying warm in the winter, nothing beats goose down – end of discussion. So, with the weather in New England starting to resemble Hoth, we decided it was time to put a down jacket through its paces, Gear Patrol style. The object of our testing was the GoLite Roan Plateau Hoodie. [...]
For Men Who Relish Hellish Environments
Robert Pelton knows hostile environments. He’s spent four weeks running RPG alley with Blackwater, hung around the siege of Grozny in Chechnya, and been inside the hunt for public enemy numero uno with the CIA in the hills of Afghanistan… and those are just his more recent exploits. So, when RAT Cutlery asked him to [...]
Flying A Gulfstream? So Last Year. How About Flying In the Gulf Stream.
For the paltry sum of $661,000 (and change), you too can join Sir Richard Branson in your own Necker Nymph Underwater. The Necker Nymph (named after Branson’s Caribbean luxury rental, Necker Island) is a fifth generation winged submersible in the DeepFlight Merlin class, created by Hawkes Ocean Technologies Deep Flight Submersibles. The carbon fiber craft [...]
Your Very Own Baja 1000
Add this one to the “ultimate carhead bachelor party” list, or your next manventure. Wide Open Adventure offers a variety of Baja-based motorized explorations based out of “Horsepower Ranch”, a 140 acre mecca in the valley of Ensenada that coddles its guests in a mix of Mexican ranch and Baja racing lifestyle. Guests like Paul [...]
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Grant Lingel is a man to be jealous of and maybe even to admire. In 2006, after completing one semester as a super-senior in balmy Buffalo, NY, Grant decided to take a risk many of us have thought about, but never had the courage to do. Uninspired by the path laid in front of him [...]
You Never Know, They Could Save Your Life
Submitted by Gear Patrol Reader Ben Dahl If there was only one requirement of a survival product (outside of saving your a$%, obviously) it would be versatility. Guns, rations, and flashlights are all necessary, but they lack versatility. Survival Straps is going to change that by going Playstation on your survival products. That’s right, these [...]
Your Head As A Beacon
Head lamps have come a long way since we were on our last scouting trip. No longer do you need to have a glorified Mag Lite strapped to your head, bobbing around and weighing your head down. Petzl’s new Tikka Plus 2 has opened our eyes and become quite a convenient piece of gear to [...]
