Vintage Ski World might charge $25 for a patch, but they will bring their mobile museum to your party so everyone can dress up in vintage ski clothes. Their site doesn’t list a price, and they don’t say whether they’ll drive all the way to Bar Harbor, Maine. I’m willing to bet they take a deposit on the gear, though. Leave the shot ski in the closet unless you want to find out just how much ugly sweaters can cost.

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The Planet Earth Soldier Plaid Jacket gets you everything you need for about $220. This well-built insulated jacket makes it easy to stay warm and hard to look bad. The waterproof coating will keep you dry for one, maybe two seasons—but you’ll be sick of plaid by then anyway. Take off the fur trim if you’re scared of animal rights activists, you probably wouldn’t have time to yell, “It’s fake!” before they hit you with the red paint.

Just Tomatoes, etc.! sells dried organic fruits and vegetables along with cookbooks that make for easy backcountry cooking. Instead of adding hot water to a bag of stew that will taste like cardboard, you can cook with cosmonaut food. You can also eat their strawberries and blueberries (or anything else) as a snack—make sure you’re carrying a lot of water.

It started with wannasurf.com, and now you can trade spots for skating, kite surfing, scuba diving, and sky diving (though I thought you just needed a plane for that one.) These wiki-style pages let you add and edit posts to point people toward uncrowded breaks or skateparks and warn them about sharks, flotsam, and riled-up locals. They’re awesome grassroots tools; they just need one for climbing with all your secret bouldering spots—hello crowds.

The Firefly LED Nalgene Light is a screw on cap that lets you become a flair bartender in the backcountry. Now there are two things in this worlds that I really hate—golf and bar flair—but this thing is okay, I just wish it did something besides make it hard to sleep at night. It has variable light levels and will set you back about $21 not including the bottle. It runs on, uh, batteries, but there’s a solar option available.

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Working gas station nights to ride during the day is respectable, but wearing a $200 gas station shirt for riding is a waste of time. Burton gives their Station Jacket some nice features like mesh-lined pitzips and a powder skirt, but you know you’ll lose the removable arms the first time you take them off at a post-ride bar stop.

Ski graphics have never worked for me. Whenever I test new skis, I invariably like the ones with the worst blaze-orange-and-lightning-bolt graphics. Or worse, they end up matching my flashy boots with 3D Violet buckles, and then I look like a Texan on the magic carpet at Vail. Kids are not so unlucky. Rossignol is releasing a line of Spongebog Squarepants skis and snowboards this winter, sadly they don’t have any plans for adult versions.

VIA Snowboard-Mag.

Until all the hemp T-shirts and organic pasta you’re buying cleans up the ocean, a company called Surf Drops is making a nasal flush to get the contaminated water you’ve been swimming in out of your skull. It thins thick mucus and helps your body kill the bacteria you’ve soaked up. At least all the pollution is helping a small surfing company like Surf Drops make it.

After years of surfing in health-hazard water, surfers are on the lookout for environmentally friendly clothing according to Alexandria Sage. Quiksilver’s chief Bob McKnight admitted his company’s not worked that hard to use sustainable practices, but said their recent line of organic tees is a step in the right direction. Volcom has also jumped on board with their high end green line of clothing. No more baby seal Uggs?

VIA surfermagazine.

Why get stuck with a pack you don’t really like from CamelBak when they make it so easy to turn a killer backcountry riding pack into a hydration pack? CamelBak’s StoAway Reservoir is so easy to hook to your backpack that even Borat wouldn’t have a problem with it. An insulated tube and covered bite valve keeps it from icing up as long as you don’t forget to drink water regularly.

Bikers who won’t accept that the season’s nearly over would do well to take a look at bikemagic’s cyclo-cross buyer’s guide. Though I never really understood the subtle nuances that would make someone want to hop off their bike to jump small hurdles during a race, but these things are a good option for a nimble ATV city bike.

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The young company Moral Fervor not only uses organic goods and sustainable practices, they actually pick environmental and social issues that each of their shirts are supposed to address. Â Now you can make Wednesday Genetically Modified Corn Day, and Thursday Global Population Day. Try not to wear Farmed Salmon too many days in a row.

VIA Treehugger.