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

Gear Review: SmartWool Base Layers

SmartWool’s merino wool blends used in all the items below stretches, breathes and naturally resists odour, allowing you the freedom of movement, dry comfort, and enduring freshness that we all love while we are outdoors and on the go!  Disclosure: There are some affiliate links below, for which commissions are paid, but these are all READ MORE