The moment it hit, Dan Sedlacek was hiking up Mount Whitney using expensive hiking poles. It was the only piece of pricey, technical gear he had bought for his 2,665-mile Pacific Crest Trail hike. His…
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(Editor’s note: When Garage Grown Gear customer Annika Sohlstrom asked if she could send us a review of her Roscoe Outdoor Washakie pants after a full year of putting them to the test, we enthusiastically…
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“You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted; but to see it, you have to toil from month to month…
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I was ecstatic to finally be standing there: after all of the research, packing, and flights, we were living our dream. We’d made it to Kalalau Trail, a beyond-this-world coastline hike that’s famously noted as…
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Anyone who has spent any time in the outdoors has made mistakes–more than we’d like to admit. I’m not going to dwell here about obvious backcountry survival faux pas–like forgetting mosquito repellent, matches, raincoat; or…
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The lightweight tarp I had stretched from a large rock cracked sharply in the wind, spraying water in my face from melting snow as I burrowed deeper inside my sleeping bag. It was early June…
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14ers in Colorado: Chicago Basin This past August, I took on one of my dream climbing trips in southwest Colorado. We headed to a cluster of 14,000-foot peaks called the Windom Group, tucked in the San…
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Autumn seems to rush past us like a gust of wind, and try as we might; it’s difficult if not impossible to prolong it so we can savor the brilliant colors, brisk mornings and snow-dusted…
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*Update on 11.16.15: Founder Dan Freschl decided to move on to another opportunity, and Bosavi is no longer in operation. Every time Larry and his son Dan Freschl went camping they would gather their group…
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Over the years, we’ve endured lots of earbuds that cause discomfort, slip around, or won’t stay put. Here at Garage Grown Gear, we set out to find the best pair of earbuds that don’t fall…
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