Paramo Fuera Classic Smock

The Paramo Fuera Classic Smock is a lightweight windproof that manages to bring together versatility, performance, and simplicity together under one banner. We like how packable this product is, and we like how it’s sort of got that strong all-rounder vibe permeating off it.

Windproof, thanks to windchill-cutting Nikwax Windproof, and water-resistant, thanks to the Nikwax waterproofing treatment it’s gone through during the manufacturing process – this is a really useful number. Positive shoutout also to Paramo’s ethical approach to production (see the Miquelina Foundation), as well as this smock’s big / good chest pocket. They’re both excellent things, if you ask us.

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Adidas Terrex Free Hiker Parley

It’s no secret that, here at Mpora HQ, we love the three-stripes of Adidas. We’re drawn to those stripes like moths to a flame – seemingly unable to stop ourselves being pulled towards them.

The Adidas Terrex Free Hiker Parley is an eco-friendly, comfortable, performance-focused, super stylish hiking shoe. The Parley uses up-cycled ocean plastic as one of its principal ingredients, meaning it not only looks good; it’s good to mother nature as well.

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Haglöfs L.I.M Jacket

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Weighing in at just 230g, the Haglofs L.I.M (Less Is More) jacket is well suited to the long, multi-day, treks where the weather’s going to be constantly changing. Stuff it in your pack when the sun’s out, whip it out when the clouds start rolling in. Simples.

Gore-Tex’s relatively new Paclite Plus waterproof technology is a two-layer system with a membrane glued to a light outer fabric. It’s been implemented well here, with the lack of backer fabric helping to bring down the overall weight of the jacket.

An excellent lightweight waterproof, this.

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Montane Rock Up 20 Rucksack

If you’re a rock climber looking to get your hands on a super tough, super portable, backpack we think the Montane Rock Up 20 could be the one for you. Its nylon fabric is an impressive 300D in strength, and there’s a sense from the moment you pick it up that this thing is designed to be chucked about and scraped against hard outdoor surfaces.

The pack is part of Montane’s three-year-old collaboration with the British Mountaineering Council. 5% of the proceeds from this pack will be donated to the BMC’s Access and Conservation Trust’s ‘Moors For The Future’ project, an initiative helping to combat climate change. Rock on.

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Merrell Chameleon 8 Walking Boot

The Merrell Chameleon 8 looks like the kind of walking boot you’d have doodled in the margins of your history exercise book back in Year Nine. And, despite how that sounds, we actually mean this as the ultimate compliment. The Chameleon 8 looks like it’s supposed to look and, for some reason, we find that deeply comforting – maybe it’s all the uncertainty in the world this year, who knows?

Anyway, the previous edition of the Chamelon, the 7, was released back in 2017. It was, to be totally frank with you, a great walking boot (it went in that year’s Outdoor 100). For the eighth generation of the boot, Merrell have served up an improved outsole with even better traction.

These things feel superb underfoot.

For more on the Merrell Chameleon 8, head here

The North Face Activist FutureLight

Game-changing FutureLight technology has entered the world of footwear and, well, it’s all very exciting. Because of this tech, the North Face Activist FutureLight manages to be impressively waterproof and breathable at the same time time. The all-rounder styling on this boot, and the way it’s able to work well for you in different environments, means it could very quickly become your go-to item of footwear.

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New Balance Fresh Foam Hierro V5

We’ll level with you. We really like how this shoe looks. It’s just dead nice, isn’t it? The yellow and the blue contrasting with that black is just deeply pleasing on a purely visual level. Don’t try and argue with us. It won’t get you anywhere.

We’re not so shallow that we’d include a product in this list just because it looks cool, however. Fortunately for everyone involved, the New Balance Fresh Foam Hierro V5 is also an incredibly comfortable, protective, and functional trail running shoe.

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Nikwax Tent and Gear Solar Wash and Proof Solutions

OK. It might not be the “sexiest” product in the Outdoor 100 but, as far as we’re concerned, taking properly good care of your kit is the ultimate outdoorsman move – a clear indicator that someone is the real deal, rather than just a big bank account bawler who can’t stop buying gear they don’t actually need.

Two weeks of constant UV exposure can lead to as much as a 50% reduction in a tent fabric’s durability and waterproofness. These good value, effective, and incredibly easy-to-use Nikwax products are aimed at countering such reductions.

Go on. Give your tent some TLC. It’s earned it.

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Ticket To The Moon Lightest Hammock

How could we not include the hammock? Especially one as lightweight and easy to use as Ticket To The Moon’s Lightest Hammock. Made from a super thin, parachute-like nylon fabric, this is the perfect bit of kit for overnight microadventures and multi-day treks through wooded areas.

For more on the Ticket To The Moon Lightest Hammock, head here

Keen Terradora II Mid WP Walking Boot

Cast your mind back to 2016. Some big things happened that year. Bowie died. Prince died. Alan Rickman died. Leave won the Brexit vote, and Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton to the Presidency. In amongst all that, Keen released the very first Keen Terradora boot and we liked it so much that we included it in that year’s Outdoor 100.

The new and improved, for 2020, version of the Terradora takes what made the original popular and progresses it further. Are we saying it’s ‘The Godfather II’ of lightweight walking boots? In a word… yes.

For more on the Keen Terradora II Mid WP, head here

Sierra Designs Frontcountry Bed 20

Cards on the table. One of the many reasons we included the Sierra Designs Frontcountry Bed 20 here is the fact that the photos of our Lead Creative modelling it in the studio brought us so much joy. Honestly, we can’t rate the pictures highly enough. Truly iconic stuff.

Focusing on the product directly, we love this sleeping bag because it’s just so unbelievably comfortable. Instead of zips, there’s a tongue-like flap on the torso that you can wrap around your like a blanket. Hard to do it justice here, but in the delirium of summer we have toyed with binning our actual bed off completely. Yeah, no. We’ll just use the Sierra Designs Frontcountry Bed 20 from now on. Thanks.

What a sleeping bag.

For more on the Sierra Designs Frontcountry Bed 20, head here

snow Peak Titanium Single Wall 450 Mug

There’s just something about this Snow Peak mug. We can’t stop thinking about it (to the extent where we might actually have a problem). That shade of blue, those fold-away handles, the durable titanium, the brand logo, the words “outdoor lifestyle creator since 1958” – it all adds up to leave you with one extremely cool-looking camping mug.

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