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The best day hiking backpack is not always a backpack in the traditional sense. If your load stays below roughly 10 liters and your route involves fast…
Clay Masterson·17 min read
Zero-drop trail running sneakers are not a shortcut to better form. They are a load-transfer tool. The shoe does not remove stress from your running system. It…
Clay Masterson·16 min read
A 90-second boil time tells you almost nothing about how a gas camping stove will perform when you are cold, hungry, running low on fuel, and trying to get…
Clay Masterson·14 min read
Light trail running shoes have sold a clean lie for years: less weight means more speed. That logic works until the trail starts taking payment. Add 100 grams…
Clay Masterson·13 min read
marathon shoes: lessons from my first 100-mile finish…
Clay Masterson·11 min read
A 15-liter pack is not “small” in the cute gear-store sense. It is small in the brutal, practical sense: you get room for water, food, a shell, a basic…
Clay Masterson·16 min read
Your fuel canister weighs more than your dinner. That isn't hyperbole — it's a 227 to 450 gram dead weight you haul for three days just to boil water, and most…
Clay Masterson·9 min read
Here's a number that should stop you cold: every hollow-fiber membrane water filter on the market — Sawyer, Katadyn, LifeStraw, pick your brand — is…
Clay Masterson·13 min read