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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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Base Camp X Wendigo

Base Camp X, a Canadian brand best known for their functional and durable axes, has created the perfect multi-purpose chopping tool with Wendigo. Designed as their alternative to the hatchet, Wendigo hacks, chops, chisels, pries, crushes and smashes with ease thanks to the sharpened chisel tip, hacking blade and hardened…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The 2017 Standard Memorandum

We’re excited to introduce you to the 2017 version of Word. Notebook's incredibly popular Standard Memorandum. As with previous versions, it’s inspired by pocket journals of the early 1900s and designed to chronicle one year of your life. Done in collaboration with designer and illustrator Jon Contino, the notebook is made…

By Mike Newman
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Pillbox Bat Co. Hand-Painted Bats

Named in tribute for the old Downtown Park in St. Paul, Minnesota, that was referred to as "the Pillbox," Pillbox Bat. Co is making bats that are as functional as they are stylish. Each 34" bat is Made in the USA from the same solid Maple that the pros use…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Sherlock Holmes Vaporizer Pipe

Steve Bae—an up-and-coming industrial designer from Seoul, Korea—recently tackled a concept for a vaporizer pipe for Peterson of Dublin, which just celebrated its 150th anniversary in business. Bae's concept fuses a traditional pipe smoking experience and iconic lines like those you'll find in Sherlock Holmes's deerstalker hunting cap with modern design…

By Cooper Fleishman
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InstruMMents 01 Measures Anything Using Lasers

InstruMMents 01 is a combination writing implement and measuring tool billed as "the world's first dimensioning instrument." Carved in aluminum and steel, the 01 houses a pen, pencil or stylus along with a mag roller that you can use to measure just about anything. You can measure couches and stairs…

By Cooper Fleishman
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