Author: Jack Bogart

Like any backpacker, I try to cut weight from my pack where I can, but I draw the line at my sleep setup. I am not willing to sacrifice a good night’s sleep on trail for the sake of shaving off a few ounces. As a result, I’ve always shied away from ultralight mummy sleeping bags, preferring slightly roomier (and heavier) bags. And yet, after a week of backpacking in Oregon and sleeping in Therm-a-Rest’s Parsec 20 ($470) sleeping bag, I’ve reconsidered. This bag, which weighs just over 1 pound, shows that going ultralight doesn’t mean giving up comfort. A…

Ripton is known for a cheeky approach to denim. Founder Elliot Wilkinson-Ray is an avid mountain biker who worked in the outdoor apparel industry for a number of years prior to launching the company and was bored by the general similarity of all the products. When riding, he often used stretchy jeans that he cut into shorts, and in 2019, he decided to make performance denim “jorts” a thing. Ripton has since been a performance denim innovator, launching MTB pants, overalls, an insulated poncho, jackets, and vests, all made of the fabric. But for the most part, it stayed bike-oriented.…

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When you’ve spent hours swinging a Pulaski or hauling chainsaws through the forests of the North Cascades, quality sleep isn’t a luxury. While leading backcountry trail work hitches requires packing light, running a front-country crew demands a different strategy. In those setups, weight doesn’t matter, but quality sleep does. Over a full summer of testing, bouncing between extended work hitches and casual weekends, the REI Co-op Westward Dreamer Self-Inflating Bed became my go-to basecamp setup. At 4 inches thick, it provides the restorative sleep needed for working hard outdoors, and at $199, it’s affordable enough to snag on even a…

The MOHOC Spine Spine is a cable management system for helmets designed to keep them flush. Features: •Modular stitched sections allow multiple entry/exit points and precise cable routing on helmets and body-worn platforms.•Cut between segments without loss of integrity. Use single sections or extend, curve, and overlap for complex cable pathways.•Designed for MOHOC® Cameras; adaptable to any cabled device on helmets, chest rigs, packs, vehicles, K9, and beyond. Works seamlessly with MOHOC® Shoulder Mount.•Keeps cables aligned and flat against helmets, shoulders, torso, and dismounted gear.•Supports a wide-range of commercial and MIL-SPEC cables with elastic webbing over tactical nylon. Hook backing…

The switchbacks were starting to hurt a little, but I settled into the long haul, timing my pedal strokes and applying a burst of energy with each techy rise in the trail. The trail was dusty, moondust; Colorado has been Dry. Capital D. But the torque in my pedaling kept getting the job done. One grippy connection after another, I felt confident. It was my third ride with the Stamp Trail BOA Flat Shoes, and they were impressing me more and more. As a gal who prefers flats and the freedom to bail quickly, I’m forever seeking a one-quiver mountain…

The first brass casings struck the concrete with a loud pinging sound, and I couldn’t help but smile. Nothing beats a real side-by-side comparison. Spec sheets and press releases can only tell you so much. The real answers come when you put rounds downrange.On this day, I had two pistols on deck: the Springfield Armory Hellcat Pro Comp stock with an Olight SE Red Dot versus a custom-built Hellcat Pro from Floyd Custom Shop (FCS). The custom Hellcat Pro was decked out with an Enforcer slide and an Apex Tactical trigger, and a Vortex Defender-CCW red dot sight.To keep variables…

FORT IRWIN, Calif.— To secure a decisive warfighting advantage, Army Aviation must project power beyond the enemy’s threat ring. By penetrating and defeating an adversary’s Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS) from a standoff distance, Army Aviation opens critical corridors that allow the subsequent infiltration of joint systems, precision fires, and other manned and unmanned assets. Above the high-desert sands of Fort Irwin during Project Convergence-Capstone 6 (PC-C6), Army Aviation demonstrated decisive air-launched capabilities in contested airspace. The U.S. Army proved it was actively delivering integrated sensor-to-shooter lethality to the tactical edge by pairing two Active/Passive Infrared launch effects (LEs) —…