Danner Trail 2650 Shoe

As items of outdoor footwear go, the Danner Trail 2650 is the perfect example of a shoe bringing together practicality and style in one super neat, super comfortable, package. These are proper all-rounders, as at home in the city streets as they are on remote hilltops and countryside pubs. Top stuff.

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Lowepro Powder Backpack

The Lowepro Powder Backpack appeals to that part of our brains which find happiness in logic, and structure, and well-implemented organisation. If you’re a serious photographer, addicted to buying expensive camera equipment and carrying it round with you in God’s playground (aka the mountains), you’ll love this incredibly protective, professional, and versatile backpack.

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Rab Alpine Pro 600 Sleeping Bag

Nothing quite like bunking down for the night in a good sleeping bag; somewhere remote, somewhere wild, somewhere miles away from anxiety-inducing civilisation. Are we right, or are we right? Anyway, in terms of its temperature rating, which is comfort level -3°C and limit -10°C, the Rab Alpine Pro 600 Sleeping Bag is ideal for outdoorsy escapes from year’s beginning right on through to year’s end. The water repellency here, which is partly down to the bag’s eco-friendly and hydrophobic Nikwax solution treated European duck down, is genuinely great. Shoutout also to the presence of Pertex Quantum Pro, a tightly woven ultralight fabric that enhances the product’s resistance to water. Big thumbs up from us.

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Eagle Creek Migrate Duffel 60L

We’ve got a lot of time for super tough, “come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough”, duffel bags. They’re good for travelling around with, good for being violently chucked about by baggage handlers, and, let’s face it, they’re a million times cooler to look at than your standard roll-on cabin bag. With the Migrate 60L, Eagle Creek have not only made a product that’s durable and versatile they’ve also made one that’s sustainable. How so? Well, in short, Eagle Creek have been removing car windshields from landfills to help make these. Your eyes aren’t going. You read that correctly.

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Haglöfs Grym Evo Jacket

With a name that’s pronounced ‘grim’, you’d be forgiven if alarm bells were ringing in your head right about now. Fortunately however, this waterproof jacket from Swedish brand Haglöfs is the opposite of that word in almost every respect. It’s great, in fact. Really great. Not only is the Grym Evo tough, hardwearing, and very protective (its seams are ‘ultrasonically bonded’ – which is as cool as it sounds – i.e. very), the product is also environmentally friendly. This is thanks to its PFC-free water repellent coating and the membrane itself which is derived from recycled materials. Nice bit of kit this.

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The North Face FutureLight Summit L5 Waterproof Jacket

The future is here. Or, at least, that’s would The North Face would have you believe with their FutureLight technology (a potentially very exciting, game-changing, development in the world of outdoor gear). What is it then? How does it work? Well, in short, by utilising a sci-fi sounding process called nanospinning.

Nanospinning is where a polyurethane solution is turned into a web of thousands of nano fibres with holes between them that are big enough for air to pass through but small enough to block out those water molecules. This, in and of itself, is nothing new but by coupling the nanospun membrane with a unique fabric laminate that, it’s claimed, won’t jeopardise breathability performance the buzz and hype FutureLight’s been getting starts to make sense. Definitely one to keep an eye on.

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