Outdoors

They call it a Pack Pal Tinder Maker, perfect for all of your fire-building needs, but one look at this little survival tool, and you know what other need it can swoop in and save the day for: emergency cheese grating...

From flint to cold forged steel. The Axxis Hand Axe by Bone Daddy Blade Werx takes its inspiration from the original pieces of EDC, the flint hand axes carved by prehistoric humans. While maintaining their same basic...

My grandma used to have a white cup she kept in her purse that telescoped open and closed just like this Retractable Folding Camping Stool. She would bust it out anytime I got real amped up when we were out in public...

Say WassSom, bra?! to fellow surfers, sunners, partiers, and greasy dudes leering at bikini-clad co-eds on the beach this Spring Break. The Sombra Shade beach canopy is a lightweight, low-profile sun blocker made for...

Show off your slick tricks on an even slicker surface this winter with a Slopedeck Snowskate. The Canadian-made hybrid trades in snowboard bindings for a maple cambered deck that mimics a skateboard's in both size and...

The Ignik Gas Growler is a refillable propane tank that endeavors to give us some happy, environmentally-friendly, and economical middle ground. When you're camping, RVing, tailgating, grilling, or doing any activity...

Oh how you taunt me, Tubmarine! I could never afford your wood-fired tubness, and just looking at your modern design and eco-friendly marriage of recyclable stainless steel and sustainable soft woods, especially as I...

Performing gardening chores and yard work for my mama this spring is gonna be way more fun with a pair of these Garden Genie Gloves...with Claws! Diggin' through the dirt like a lion or a dragon or, well, since it's...

This dragon doesn't breathe fire. He blinks it. With a romantic flicker. And in a big way. The Dragon's Eye Candle Holder is a ceramic sculpture that measures almost 2' across. You can place a candle up to the task of...

Quaruba, Jamaica / oooh I wanna make ya / a stylish and modern / wood stove for the garden... In the Quaruba outdoor wood-burning stove Dutch designers rb73 have created a cubical, modular piece to heat up your nights...

Gerber's new DoubleDown Folding Machete reminds me that as boss as I feel walking around with a machete dangling from my belt loop, the look doesn't always go over well in the office or at the Starbucks. But now! A 15"...

When Yukon Charlie's shows off their Yukon Hammerhead Pro HD snow sled with the invite to "#ExperienceWinter," part of me hates them, because F you, Yukon Charlie, I've been shoveling snow for the past 2 hours and I don't...

I know Jeeps - and trucks and SUVs - are burly and all, but I'm just not sure I'd trust the roof of one of them to support both a(n admittedly pimp-lookin') Rapter Series rooftop tent and the burly hunk of human that...

Versafix could be anything - a hair product, some kind of adhesive, Ray Donovan's new storefront - but here, in the house of Gerber, Versafix is a fixed blade. And a machete. It's a Versa-tile fixed blade / machete hybrid...

Baby it's cold, and dark, outside. But don't worry, the TempaBright carabiner with built-in thermometer and super-bright chip-on-board (COB) LED lights will solve the second problem. As for the first, it will tell us...

The plants will grow and the rivers will flow over my dead body. Literally. For real. No joke. On May 21, 2019, Washington State legalized "the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil." Recompose, a...

Now that the shortest day of the year is behind us, Weber knows what time it is: time to start thinking about grilling season! Their SmokeFire Wood Fired Pellet Grills should be ready to ship on January 25, 2020, and...

A chef never goes anywhere without his knives, and with their 12" Rugged Chef Tactical Field Cleaver S-TEC makes sure camping trips are no exception. The folding cleaver is 12" in overall length when open, and has a 5"...

It may be lovely weather for a sleigh ride together, but I think I'm gonna sled solo on a Bobsla this time. And by "sled" I mean fly downhill and across the snow at speeds of over 20 MPH in this snowmobile / drift kart...

The good news is that this Norse Tradesman One-Handed Viking Battle Axe is fitted with a hand-forged skegg carbon steel axe head that's been heat treated to a 56 - 58 Rockwell scale hardness. Norse Tradesman says the...

Let it snow, let it snow, let it...create major roof water damage and possibly get so heavy it slides off avalanche-style and takes out my Aunt Jan. RHS Valley Heater roof snow and ice elimination systems emanate 40 watts...

DMOS calls their Stealth Pro Snow Shovel "Your Excalibur with teeth." What a great line! Though it's also a double-edged sword (yuk, yuk, yuk) because Excalibur started out embedded in stone, and no man could pull it...

The Exolung is a prototype for an underwater breathing device that gives shallow-water divers the freedom of a SCUBA, without all of the elaborate equipment. More probably, it will be the snorkelers who swim towards Exolung's...

This holiday season the Mock ONE Portable Folding Hammock with Stand reminds us that summer, and weather worthy of lounging outside in a cocoon of parachute nylon, will come again one day soon. And if it doesn't come...