Stories

Designed By Adventure: The ActiveIce Collection

Sunscreen? Yuck. It’s thick, smelly, and sticky. It gets all over your gear. It runs when you sw...

I coil my bowline, push my boat off from shore, and jump into the rower’s seat. The greenish wate...

When you’re pushing hard above tree line, change might be the only constant. A puckering wind th...

A zipper here, a tab there ... most of these little things fly under the radar. But sometimes it’...

Active insulation isn't like its old-fashioned cousins. It's designed to breathe and wick—to ke...

Truth be told, I don’t really care for splitters. Sure, as an artist and a philosopher I admi...

It’s part of my job here at OR to send gear to pro photographers for photo shoots, and there’s ...

“Designed By Adventure.” At Outdoor Research, our products have been designed by adventure for...

“Designed By Adventure.” At Outdoor Research, our products have been designed by adventure fo...

If we could control the weather when we're planning our adventures ... well, NASA would hire us...

It can be a divisive issue: Paddlers are often vehement on the topic of skegs and rudders. Each...

One of the best parts of camping after a long day of climbing, hiking or paddling is dinnertime...