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Best Gifts for the Adventurer Who’s Always Afield

Lightweight, high-quality treasures to inspire spur-of-the-moment outings and a lifetime of adventure.

Gift Guide for Adventurers featuring Panerai watch, telescope, fishing rod, board, and tentCourtesy of Panerai, Agena Astro, Flite, The North Face, and Trident Fly Fishing

By Gear Patrol Studios

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You know the feeling, or you know someone who’s addicted to it: fleet of foot, nothing ahead but the aim of the day, adventure entirely unpredictable.

This kind of adventurer grabs just what’s needed to be off. Some days, it’s a great tent big enough for adventure. Others, it’s a handheld telescope to study the sun in all its glory. Always, you need a watch that works as an adventure tool and inspires with its history and high-tech touches.

When quick adventure is the goal, these are the fun, exciting, surprising pieces of gear you’ll need.

The Panerai Submersible is an adventurer’s watch through and through. Renowned for its ties the Italian Navy and beloved by action heroes like Sly Stallone, the Submersible Collection carries with it a level of panache that only a tool designed for exceptional performance can achieve.

The Panerai Submersible QuarantaQuattro Bianco – PAM01595 features a 44mm case, a striking white dial, and a supremely versatile military green rubber strap. Powered by the precise and shock-resistant P.9000 automatic mechanical caliber, PAM01595 is a dive watch with the style and chops you need to take it off the grid, no questions asked.

The kind of tool your rocket scientist friend keeps in his car, the Coronado Personal H-Alpha Refractor allows you to stare at the sun, literally.

A series of mirrors and filters removes the harmful intensity of the sun; its hand-held mode feels like an adventure in and of itself, and you can use its analogue solar finder on the fly. You can look directly at massive solar flares many times the size of the earth, in real time. The truth is, it’s fun to look at the stars during the daytime — and the most interesting one is the closest to us.

E-foil SUPs are all the rage, and this one is a current favorite. The short, responsive board is powered by a Flite Jet prop and a handheld controller, with an extended surf time of 90 minutes when upgraded to a “Sport” Flitecell. Just suit up, fire it up, and you’re flying over the water in no time.

The North Face knows how to make basecamp. That’s clear enough in their Wawona six-person tent, an excellently made bit of cover that packs down surprisingly small. It features a massive gear vestibule with double doors and the kind of size that makes even six people in sleeping bags happy. If you’re zipping off to car camp, wherever you go, it’s the tent that’ll get the job done.

R.L. Winston makes fly rods that are works of art. When you’re a jump-in-and-go adventurer, you need something that can do it all, which makes the 5-weight version of their Air 2 a perfect fishing tool. With a fast action and balanced feel, it’s the right rod for casting tiny dry flies to rising trout on a glass-calm slick of river or chucking streamers to hungry bass from your SUP on the lake.