Like always I’ve waited to pull the trigger on a look at the new year’s split in half hotness until the first day I had to turn the heater on. Today was that day so I’m dusting off the asdfjkl and semicolon and gettin’ ta bloggin’. Getting the pole position in this year’s look at […]
New Gear
What’s wrong with these pictures?
Still have no idea how the below could possibly happen, and they look fake to me and I saw the whole damn thing happen! I should probably try and file a claim with Thule, but given how they treated me when my old Thule surf rack broke (a design they’ve coincidentally since changed…), and reading […]
GEAR LUST: Fishing Kayaks
So as some of you may know by now I had a roof rack megafail this weekend that resulted in my Perception Search 15 meeting I-5 at highway speeds. Not cool, especially as I’d finally been satisfied with how I had it rigged after four years of ownership! Being thrust unexpectedly into the market for […]
Gear Lust: Waterproof Cameras
A few weeks back my iPhone met an untimely demise by way of rusty innards (not to be confused with trombones). One too many trips to the beach and sweaty sparring sessions had taken it’s toll and the Apple ‘Genius’ said he’d never seen anything like it. Meh. Since then I’ve camped at the beach […]
Gear Lust: BioLite Camp Stove
So the reality of it is unlike some people *cough cough Adam* I don’t want to be facebotexweeting while playing in the outdoors and thus this ISN’T up my alley (OK, I lie, I’d rock the shit out of this for camera battery charging on long trips). HOWEVER, I really dig the outside the box […]
Gear Lust: Big Agnes Wyoming Trail 2
Going to add ‘Gear Lust’ as a semi-regular feature. Basically my gear closet is fairly complete and I don’t find myself needing anything but definitely find myself frequently wanting new gear. As the needs vs. wants vs. budget graph isn’t at the point it used to be I’ll just use it to highlight some new/interesting […]
Pimp My Bindings
PLUS EQUALS The Blazes I won up at Splitfest were mediums, but I usually take a large. Looked up the stats on their site and the baseplate length is the same between the M and L, the difference is just in the width. As my wide boots fit into the […]
Prototype Split Surfboard Spied
This is interesting…I’m not real sure how you’d skin out in the ocean – my guess is some mix of Jesus walking on water and one of those big wheeled floaty Barbie bike things. Looks like it was DIY as well, probably trying to avoid any issues with Voile.
Made in the USA
Been wanting to do this post for awhile, but due to time and brain cell constraints it’s been sitting in draft status since this XDL Powder Alert vid. The french/freedom press/unamurrrrcan line I wrote made my brain do it’s ADHD/tangential thinking thing that keeps me up late at night, thinking about how the confluence of […]
2013 Spark R&D Bindings
While the rest of us have been going about our regular 9-to-5s, the inhabitants of a parallel universe that consists of career bloggers, retail buyers, and retail buyer bloggers have spent the past few weeks at Outdoor Retailer, SIA (still going) and various other “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” events. Thanks […]