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If you wear hiking boots and get blisters when you go hiking or if your boots don’t fit as well as you’d like, there are a handful of powerful hiking boot lacing techniques that you can use to dial in a good fit. Unfortunately, these lacing techniques have become somewhat of a lost art since well-trained boot fitters are so …

Merrell’s Moab 2 Ventilator Low Hiking Shoes are the best-selling non-waterproof hiking shoes of all time for the simple reason that they’re stable, affordable, and available in wide sizes. I hiked in them for many years myself, all over the Catskills Mountains and the Gunks in New York State, and still keep a pair for kicking around in because they’re …

Zero-drop shoes have become popular with hikers and backpackers over the past few years, thanks in part to Altra Running Shoes, a brand known both for their oversized toe-box and zero-drop style. Before Altra, many hikers had never considered the drop of their shoes before. The “drop” in a shoe refers to the difference in height between the heel of …

Jetboil’s camping cooking systems integrate a cook pot and stove into a highly efficient, easy-to-use, fast, and completely self-contained cooking system. Below, we explain how to choose between the different Jetboil cooking systems so you can find the one that best suits your needs and budget. Jetboil stoves completely transformed backpacking stoves when they first came out and demonstrated the …