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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
By Beau Hayhoe
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
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This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game 12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game
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12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game

From Tiger Woods’ surprisingly beatable low round to the golf course sitting 15,000+ feet above sea level.

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

Good luck spotting Nike's best releases this week. They're all camo.

By Cool Material
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Adventure Mate Is a 5-in-1 Hatchet Tool

The market is filled with badass EDC multi-tools, but few have the amount of outdoor functionality as the Adventure Mate. The Adventure Mate Multi-Function Hatchet Tool is, as you might have guessed by the name, a number of different tools built into a hatchet body. It has a hatchet, along with…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The World’s First Self-Healing Utility Bag

Slughaus, the same company responsible for two of the world's smallest LED flashlights with the Bullet 01 and Bullet 02, is back with the Wolverine, the world's first self-healing utility bag. The Wolverine bag is built with Regenerative FuseFabric (think next level nylon ripstop with a combination weave of thicker,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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ICEMULE BOSS Backpack Cooler

When you’re out in the wilderness, nothing satisfies quite like a cold one at the end of a hard day’s trek. The ICEMULE BOSS Backpack Cooler makes getting those beverages, and the rest of your gear, from point A to point B way easier than having to deal with a hard-sided…

By Cooper Fleishman
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New Custom Wood Luggage Tags

Skip the paper and string bag tags from the airport or the plastic options from the drugstore because New Custom has a much better option with their laser engraved wood luggage tags. Each 4.25” x 4.25” tag is later engraved with a design or text of your choosing, so you can…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Arbor Flexible Wood Wallet

There are quite a few wooden wallets on the market these days. None of them, however, are like Arbor. Coming to you from the Carved workshop in Indiana, Arbor is the first flexible wood wallet. The existing wood wallet options on the market are all great, but they’re not suited for…

By Cooper Fleishman
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