Quantcast
skip to main navigation

Gear Patrol | Spirit of Adventure, Passion for Gear

View As FULL | LIST | GRID

The Posts

(the juicy bits, updated daily)

Timekeeping: Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 44 London Chrono

Move over Big Ben

Who doesn’t love the Olympics? Well, instead of having the multicolored rings emblazoned on your hairy chest while rooting for your favorite Olympian, why not don something a few notches up on the classy scale? For the 2012 Olympic games in London, Omega commemorates the 25th time they have acted as the Official Timekeeper of [...]

Shaun White and the Secret Superpipe

The Flying Tomato's Personal Playground

Much like Tony Hawk’s name has become synonymous with the world of skate boarding, Shaun White defines the sport of snowboarding for many fans. This year’s Winter Olympics have given Shaun a grand stage, upon which took the gold medal in the Men’s Halfpipe event earlier this week. Astoundingly, it was a never-before-seen maneuver that [...]

2008 Summer Olympics | What To Watch

What the Gear Patrol Editors Are Watching DVR’ing Lets hope the air in Beijing isn’t flammable (ESPN) NBC is showing that Americans do things big and we do it like no one else. With 3,600 hours of high definition video (2,200 hours of it streamed and archived online), NBC is going for its own gold. [...]

Essentials

(subscribe to GP)