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Gear Tested
Imogen Reece spent two seasons in the Patagonian and Aysén regions with four insulated jackets in rotation. Down won the warmth-to-weight contest. It did not win every contest.
Gear Tested
Imogen Reece spent a winter on the Olympic Peninsula and the western Cascades in five hardshell jackets. Two of them held. Two of them did not. One surprised her.
Gear Tested
Astrid Pereira took five headlamps into the wet limestone of South Wales and the deeper, drier caves of the Yorkshire Dales. After 200 hours underground, only two were still working as advertised.
Gear Tested
Six months of slate, gneiss, and wet leaf litter across four pairs of low-drop trail shoes in the Berkshires and the Whites. What stuck. What slid. What came apart at the heel cup.