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Three-Season Sleeping Bag Big Agnes Boot Jack 25 $190, 2 lbs. 6 oz. (regular) Sizes: regular and long ($200) moosejaw.com Backpackers and campers shopping for a sleeping bag often focus on just a few specs: temperature rating, length, insulation type, and of course, price. They might not give consideration to construction, design, or how the bag fits—as in how much …
Ultralight Backpacking Tents Big Agnes Fly Creek HV UL2 mtnGLO $440, 2 lbs. 1 oz. (not including stuff sacks and stakes) Big Agnes Fly Creek HV UL3 $450, 2 lbs. 15 oz. (not including stuff sacks and stakes) moosejaw.com As we searched for a campsite while backpacking in the canyon of Utah’s Dirty Devil River in late March, the wind …
Ultralight Tent Exped Mira II Hyperlite $429, 2 lbs. 14 oz. (without the included stuff sack and eight sturdy stakes, at least six of which are needed to pitch the tent) moosejaw.com On the first of two nights backpacking with my 15-year-old son in Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains, I got an immediate sense of what I liked about Exped’s sub-three-pound …
Kid’s Rain Jacket Marmot Boy’s and Girl’s PreCip Jacket $65, 9 oz. (girls large) Sizes: boys and girls XS (4-5) to XL (13-15) moosejaw.com When the first thunderstorm dumped rain less than an hour into our eight-mile, family dayhike on the Iceline Trail in Yoho National Park, in the Canadian Rockies, we just pulled on our rain shells and kept …
Hiking/Approach Shoes Arc’teryx Acrux2 FL GTX Approach Shoe $280, 2 lbs. 3 oz. (men’s 9) Sizes: men’s 7-14, women’s (Acrux FL GTX, $230) 5-12 moosejaw.com Arc’teryx Acrux FL $200, 1 lb. 14 oz. (men’s 9) Sizes: men’s 7-14, women’s 5-12 moosejaw.com Is it possible for a shoe to be everything you need in backcountry footwear—and if so, what’s that worth? …