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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.

By Cool Material
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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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Word. Dot Grid Pocket Notebooks

When we launched Word. Notebooks a few years ago, we came up with a unique bullet point organizational system that has been helping people all over the world keep their to-do lists cleaner, their notes better organized and their pocket notebook from looking like something that requires a Ph.D in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Multi-Tool That Fits on a Zipper

If you're anything like us, you probably have a large collection of multi-tools that you love but rarely carry around. You only really need one full size one on a regular basis, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have a few smaller ones in case an emergency arises. (For the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Weather Station

When trying to determine the "feel" of the weather for the day, we like to use the goldilocks principle when it comes to temperature and humidity. The fine folks at Best Made Co. clearly get it because they've created a brass-bodied, German-made Weather Station that will accurately predict comfort zones…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Last Razor You’ll Ever Buy

When you make a claim that you're creating the best of anything you better be able to back it up. OneBlade is "The best razor on Earth. Period." and based on what we've seen so far, they're putting their money where their mouth is. Inspired by a shave that Porter…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Pen Type-B

Pen Type-A by Brooklyn design firm cw&t was one of the first pens we ever backed on Kickstarter, and it remains one of our favorites to this day. It took them four years of designing, testing and prototypes, but cw&t is finally back with a sequel to the pen that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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