In 2020, the team that makes up Gear Patrol’s Outdoors & Fitness Desk wandered into a metaphorical forest filled with thousands of products, from puffy jackets to pocket knives, with the goal of sampling as many as possible (and not getting lost along the way).
The botanical bounty they emerged with represents the best, most fascinating and most innovative specimens that currently exist, and they now populate Gear Patrol’s extensive herbarium of buying guides. Below are the collections that turned the most heads (and opened the most wallets).
The 12 Best Down Jackets of 2021

These top picks for lightweight, innovative down jackets will keep you warm from when the leaves fly until the snow melts next spring.