How-To's & Explainers

Gear Patrol’s gift guide to the 16 best tech and gadget gifts under $50 available in 2014.

16 of the best affordable gifts for chefs and foodies.

16 of the best affordable gifts for campers and outdoorsmen.

From The Horn of Plenty to the myriad mouths to feed, Thanksgiving is all about abundance. Your bird should reflect that.

Freddie Wilkinson makes his home in the White Mountains, where he climbs and guides most of the year between putting up alpine first ascents on expeditions to Alaska, Nepal, Patagonia, India and Antarctica.

How to make the poor man’s fondue.

Shelter is the most important ingredient for wilderness survival.

You must have a finely tuned engine to compete in Cyclocross, but highly polished techniques can save you huge amounts of time over the course of a race.

Alcohol remains an enduring motif in the great American narrative. That’s probably because those that wrote it drank, and drank well — epitomized by the enduring symbol of the most sophisticated of drinking cultures: the bar cart. What follows is just one interpretation of how the home bar should look and taste.

Chef Timmy Malloy of Local’s Corner in San Francisco gives a lesson in filleting a fish.

Here they are: the 15 best day hikes, as told by our readers. All of the words and images below are straight from your submissions to our GP best hikes competition.

The Nano-Air jacket will replace half your closet during the fall/spring.

A skill that every self-reliant camper should know.

The ostensible benefit of smart watches and health trackers, as far as health goes, is that they allow you to monitor your calories, heart rate, and step count with previously unmatched accuracy.

Sequels tend to suck (Caddyshack II, I’m looking at you), and when they’ve got 26.2 miles of pavement in them, the suck-potential goes exponentially up. After my second marathon, I came up with some advice to my former self, who was still prepping for his first.

We found the 15 best day hikes near major cities in the South.

This Week in Gear: Land Rover’s Discovery SUV, Bose launches their “best headphones ever,” a layover in Mozambique, and more.

With the Appalachians to the east and Rockies to the west, the relatively flat American Midwest doesn’t call to mind a hiking destination. But that’s dead wrong.

This Week in Gear: Toyota’s new concept car, Sony’s newest camera, a photo essay from Outside Lands, fantastic Red Wing boots and more.

Even inexpensive upgrades can make a huge difference when it comes to grinding your way up the local hill or beating out your buddies in a county-line sprint.