Want to improve your ultralight water purification? Shopping for a new backpacking saw or hunting bow? What about a pair of hiking shoes? This is What’s New Outside.
Easy Ultralight Water Filtration: Section Hiker has a great guide to a simple, cheap and, most importantly, light water purification system for ultralight backpacking. It’ll be applicable to most other outdoor activities too. Just keep in mind that the little in-line fliters don’t last half has long as they claim to and replace them often. [Section Hiker]
Best Portable Saws: Want to take greater wood processing ability than a big survival knife into the backcountry with you? Then you’re gonna want a light, packable saw. Gear Institute has some good advice on which one will fit best into your system. [Gear Institute]
Gore’s New Range: Gore is splitting its fabric ranges into three distinct brands. Gore-Tex will handle the waterproof/breathable membranes, Gore Windstopper will be wind, but not waterproof stuff and a new one, called Gore Thermium, will focus on keeping the insulation in down and synthetic insulated jackets dry, while maximizing breathability. Knowing this stuff will help inform your shopping. [The Gear Caster]
Keen’s New Hiking Shoes: Keen is a very popular brand outdoors due to its quality to price ratio and focus on hiking over other sports. Gear Junkie tests its new hiking sneakers and comes away impressed. [Gear Junkie]
Best New Bows, Shotguns, Rifles And Scopes: Outdoor Life just published its flagship comparison test of hunting rifles, shotguns and optics, and also a comparison of new compound bows and crossbows. If you’re going to shop for a new piece of hunting gear this winter, start here.
Frostbite And Future Injuries: It’s been a long-held belief that once you get frostbite, your risk of future injury to that particular extremity is increased, due to reduced circulation. A new study finds that may not be the case. [Backpacker]
REI Closing On Black Friday: Go do shit outside instead of shopping, basically. [USA Today]
National Park Service vs Fracking: The NPS is struggling to regulate the energy industry on your public lands, thanks to powerful lobbying from special interests. We’ll report more in-depth on this in the near future, but for now, read up on the issue here. [Backpacker]
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