If white high school kids are good at one thing, it’s appropriating other people’s cultures. Current events, not so much. Kids, I give you the Quiksilver Castro Cap. Should go great with your Che Guevara T-shirt.
While Crocs were picked as the worst stock for 2007, Mion has slowly been building a customer base with their own brand of nerdy-looking plastic shoes. They have the same feature/benefits as Crocs, which is like saying they’re goofy clown shoes that float when you pass out on your tube in the river.
Just because you managed to wrap your leg around the only tree on the cirque doesn’t mean you have to spend the rest of winter stuck indoors. The Neos Cast Cover lets you pull an overshoe on your gimp leg—add some spikes to the bottom of your crutches and you’ll be ready for snowshoeing. Neos really dropped the ball when they didn’t make their Cast Cover crampon-compatible.
The Patagonia Great Divider is a water-resistant, soft-sided chest made for carting around your fishing reels, camera equipment, or beer. At $140 you would hope for a waterproof piece of luggage for that expensive gear, but this thing can only handle sitting in water up to its zipper. Basically, you’re looking at a $140 foam cooler.
The company that brought you an Ultraviolet water purifier now has a way to charge it while you’re on the trial. Hydro Photon’s $50 Solar Charger can fight for solar cell space on top of your pack with your iPod charger. The SteriPen charger also holds a second set of batteries in case you spend half your trip wearing rain gear.
Outdoor Research really hit The Lord of the Rings phenomenon at the height of its popularity when they named their new women’s jacket the Mithril Stormshell. People less nerdy than me might not remember that a shirt J.R.R. Tolkien has Bilbo Baggins give to Frodo is made of fictional fabric Mithril. Anyway, despite only coming in bubble-gum colors, the OR Mithril Stormshell is a sick jacket with a unique look from external seam taping.
One look at the TSG Gravity Stuntman Helmet and you realize you’re a total Nancy. Dancing around the resort in your winter gear and protective pads when just 35 years ago Evel Knievel was launching huge jumps on a Harley Davidson street bike with little more than a hard hat. At least TSG lets you look the part of a daredevil—your mom’s still going to have to make the cape, though. Knievel acutally won a ski jumping championship in 1957, so you could really be on your way to a professional daredevil career.
Unless you live in the rainy Pacific Northwest or somewhere that the tilt of the Earth’s axis causes short days, it won’t be as big a deal if you get lost or forget batteries for your GPS. The i-Blue757 Solar Energy Bluetooth GPS Receiver has a low-power mode that periodically takes bearings from the satellites to reserve battery power. Sounds pretty good—too bad no one’s going to buy something named the i-Blue.
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The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei will make you feel inadequate, even if you ran all way from New York to Missouri trying to get home after running 50 marathons in 50 days. Â
Following the “700 hundred days of moving and the seven and a half days of stillness,” the next stage towards Enlightenment is the Sekisan Marathon (sekisan kugyo), which takes place the sixth year and consists of 100 consecutive days of 37.5 mile run/walks that require 14 to 15 hours to complete. The seventh and final year, Kakudo will run two 100-day terms. The first 100 days — considered by some to be the ultimate athletic challenge — consists of a daily 52.5 mile run/walk through Kyoto.
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So far 46 monks have completed the 1000-day running journey. Two monks have done the 1000-day run twice, and another killed himself halfway through his third attempt.
via Get Outdoors
