I feel a little bad about categorizing a brand that seeks to inspire women as ‘bizarre,’ but I can’t think of anyone else running a business like Trust Your Journey. They’re reaching out to people who I imagine watch Oprah every day, and they’re trying to sell gear by sharing sad (or inspirational, depending on [ more... ]

If you’re too cool for mass produced boards, check out Venture Snowboards Custom package. For $985 you get a customized deck made from sustainable-harvest wood and built by hand in Silverton, Colorado. Venture’s a rad company nestled in the mountains and they’re committed to conservation and giving deadbeat snowboarders real jobs. They have five stock [ more... ]

The man who began the multi-billion dollar juggernaut of a sports drink industry died in Florida on Tuesday. Dr. Robert Cade developed the first batch of Gatorade for $43 and fed it to freshmen on the University of Florida football team because the coach didn’t want to risk hurting varsity players. “It sort of tasted [ more... ]

Surprisingly, this fix-it kit comes with more than a roll of duct tape. MSR makes all of their current-model tents with zipper pulls you can remove and change without tools in case one happens to wear out in the backcountry. The MSR Tent Maintenance Kit includes a couple pulls and some patches to fix ceiling [ more... ]

Eka produces line of hats handmade in India with organic threads. Proceeds from trade go to develop the town in Auroville India, though the company is based in the UK. They launched in October, and most of their stuff looks good—but kind of like a Coal Headwear knock-off to serve the British Isles. Still, you [ more... ]

There’s a great article in The New York Times today about a group of kids in Queens who build their BMX bikes into rolling sound systems. The Guyanese and Trinidadian riders customize their bikes with such big speakers that they need to add outrigger supports to keep the bikes together. The slide show is cool, [ more... ]

We gave these people The South, now they want Yellowstone, too? Can’t they build some kind of synthetic snow down in Alabama and just stay there instead of heading north or west? Snowmobile travel in Yellowstone National Park will be open to 540 loud-mouth idiots with rebel flag stickers on their trucks beginning next winter. [ more... ]

It doesn’t matter that this hand model is holding the Pyxis GPS Watch upside down since we wouldn’t be able to read the Korean text anyway. This little GPS watch represents a pretty good leap in technology over the Garmin Forerunner GPS Watches, which show speed and distance but don’t display a map. Of course, [ more... ]

This Sea to Summit Soap comes in small paper-thick leaves like a deck of playing cards. The design enables you to travel with soap and avoid a soggy mess in your backpack—and just imagine the practical joke opportunities. You can take one out and fold it into your friends luggage knowing that it’ll turn into [ more... ]

The odds can’t be good—it’s like an air conditioner falling out of a window onto your head while walking down the street. Two guys were hiking in Rocky Mountain National park on Tuesday when high winds knocked down a tree that hit both the hikers. One was okay, but the other died of head trauma. [ more... ]