Looking for the best Nemo tents to upgrade your backcountry setup? After six months of testing across the Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountains, and Cascade Range, our team has logged over 240 nights in Nemo shelters to find out which models actually live up to the hype. Nemo Equipment has been quietly building some of the […]

The best MSR tent for most backpackers is the MSR Elixir 2 — a freestanding 3-season shelter with 30 sq ft of floor area, two doors and vestibules, a true rectangular floorplan, and an included footprint at no extra cost. I've spent the last three months rotating through MSR's current lineup on weekend trips in […]

I have been sleeping in Big Agnes tents for the better part of a decade, and the brand still surprises me. After testing 8 of their most popular shelters across three months of weekend trips, a PCT section hike, and one very soggy Pacific Northwest campout, I can tell you the lineup has never been […]

Looking for the best Coleman tents? After testing 8 of the brand's most popular models across weekend car-camping trips, a rainy festival weekend, and backyard sleepovers, I can confidently point you to the right tent for your group size and weather. Coleman has been making camping gear since 1900, and the brand's tents show up […]

I have been hiking with GPS watches for the better part of a decade, and the single most common complaint I hear on the trail is dead batteries by day three. When our team set out to find the best COROS watches for hiking in , battery life was the lens we used first, then […]

I spent the last three months wearing eight different Suunto watches on the same wrist, swapping between them during runs, mountain hikes, open-water swims, and one freediving course. If you want the short answer: the Suunto Core is the most battle-tested Suunto ever made with 16,000+ reviews and a 4.3-star average, the Suunto 9 Peak […]

After putting 18 Garmin watches through their paces across 400+ trail days in the Rockies, the Sierras, and the Appalachian forests, I can tell you with confidence: the best Garmin watches for outdoors in are defined by three things, battery life you can count on, maps that load without a phone, and a build that […]

When I started fishing from a kayak five years ago, drilling a hole in the hull for a wired transducer felt like overkill. That is exactly the gap the best Deeper fish finders fill: castable, wireless sonar the size of a tennis ball that turns any phone into a fish-finding display. I have personally cast […]

I have spent the last three months on the water with eight Lowrance fish finders strapped to a 19-foot bass boat, a kayak, and even a jon boat on a farm pond. I tested them through ice-cold mornings, heavy chop, and bright noon glare. I marked waypoints, ran side-by-side imaging, paired units with a Minn […]

After six weeks on the water with our test team - mounting units on kayaks, bass boats, and a borrowed bay boat - I can tell you that the best Garmin fish finders in still set the pace for the entire marine electronics industry. Garmin dominates our category for good reason: the company pairs genuine […]