Gear Review: Osprey Kresta 30

Wether you’re a skier, snowboarder or snowshoer looking for a great winter pack, you found it!  The Osprey Kresta 30 Ski Pack has all the features you need to head out for a great day in the snow.  Kresta 30 Specs Glove friendly buckles and zipper pulls (for real!) Reinforced wear points Stowaway helmet carry Front and READ MORE

Gear Review: KEEN Liberty Ridge Hiking Boots

The  Keen Liberty Ridge hiking boot brings back ultimate durability! For a few years there, an all leather hiking boot was hard to find. Then Keen listened and gave their hikers what they wanted – an all leather backpacking boot – and the Liberty Ridge hiking boot was born! Notes On Sizing I got the Keen liberty ridge hiking boots in READ MORE

Gear Review: Zeal Optics Tramline Goggles

In case you haven’t noticed, there’s been a new pair of goggles making their debut in my pics recently: Zeal Optics Tramline googles in Night Moves!! My brother, Taylor, needed a new pair of goggles for his ski season here in Western Newfoundland where we get wildly variable winter weather and still keep playing outside. I new right READ MORE

Gear Review: Keen Aphlex Hiking Boot

I have to admit, I was skeptical about the Aphlex’s when I first tried them on – it felt like I was wearing a hightop sneaker instead of a hiking boot! I was worried they wouldn’t be supportive enough to trek with, the tread wasn’t going to be deep enough and that they just generally wouldn’t READ MORE

Gear Review: Mountain Hardwear Metropass Pant

The Mountain Hardwear Metropass Pant is MY NEW FAVOURITE PAIR OF PANTS! And that’s a big statement, because I am really picky about pants. I have big thighs, average hips and a 30″inseam so pants are usually too tight around the thigh’s or too big in the waist and always too long! Disclosure: There are some READ MORE

Gear Review: Icebreaker Stratus Jacket

The Icebreaker Stratus is a totally unique jacket – one of a kind really! Icebreaker is using sustainably sourced, recycled wool as the insulated fill for this jacket, pairing it with a nylon exterior and merino wool liner making this jacket very unique in the line up of insulated layers. Icebreaker is leading the way here, READ MORE

Gear Review: Baffin Coco Ultralite Boots

The Baffin Coco Ultralite winter boots combine a rubber bottom, leather upper and insulated liner that together provide outstanding waterproofness, extreme warmth and a fashionable foot forward. A fashion meets function fusion. Disclosure: There are some affiliate links below, for which commissions are paid, but these are all products I highly recommend. I won’t put anything on READ MORE

Gear Review: Zeal Optics Eclipse Goggles

I was floored the first time I looked through Zeal Optics Eclipse Goggles automatic polarized lenses at the companies booth at Marble Mountain. With just a glimpse, my mind was spinning – I could see the quality immediately! The definition of the snow was so crisp, so sharp, better than I could see with my own eyes! Zeal Optics’ slogan READ MORE

Gear Review: Columbia Women’s Heatzone Jacket

2015 Award Winner ~ Outside Gear of the Show and Best New Gear by the Gear Institute.  3 Features I love! 900 Fill Water Resistant Goose Down Insulation – Finally a jacket warm enough for me!! Omni Heat Reflective Lining – you mean it reflects my own heat back to me? Woot Woot! The fit READ MORE

Gear Review: Women’s Merrell Capra Sport Hikers

 For fall and winter Merrell has made the Capra’s with a waterproof leather upper, removed the Exoskeleton and made them in new fun colours.   Disclosure: There are some affiliate links below, for which commissions are paid, but these are all products I highly recommend. I won’t put anything on this page that I haven’t verified READ MORE