The outdoors are tough on your hair: multiday backcountry hiking trips without a shower, sweaty bike and climbing helmets, loose strands freezing into icicles on the slopes. Even without these challenges, it’s normal to lose 50 to 100 hairs a day, but usually you don’t notice it because you’re simultaneously growing new hair. Until you’re not. The most common reason...

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　　Popular sleeping pad maker EXPED is expanding its sleeping bag offerings with the Terra bags, three versatile, affordable sleeping bags. The Terra sleeping bags, which are available in 0 degrees, 15 degrees, and 30 degrees, have launched exclusively through REI. Heres everything you need to know about this new entrant into the sleeping bag market. 　　Technical Specs The unisex Terra...

　　Powerful, nuanced, long-running, and durable, the PD36R series of flashlights has been my top choice for at least 2 years. Now, with a slight boost in power and a major change in the user interface, the PD36R Ace might be the best flashlight on the market today. 　　It comes down to your choice in controls — tail switch versus side...

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　　For most of us, mountain biking is a great way to get into the outdoors, get a workout, get an adrenaline rush, and hopefully avoid losing any skin or breaking a collarbone. For the mountain bikers of Red Bull’s annual Rampage contest, mountain biking is a means of defining the limits of human performance and fear tolerance. Every year, these...

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　　I couldnt wait to get back to the car and get warm. Id worked up a sweat during a full moon skin to the top of Sunlight Mountain, and the ride down in the dark had been a cold one. My base and midlayers were soaked. I could feel them freezing under my shell as I skied down. Foolishly, Id...

　　We are living in the golden age of protein: Theres protein popcorn, protein chips, and even protein water. In a time when this macronutrient is king, its worth asking where this protein is coming from and what else might be in it. 　　A new study conducted by Consumer Reports reveals that many mainstream brands of vegan and whey protein powders...

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