r180° Panorama Camera Backpack

A feature-filled bag that allows access to essentials without taking it off

Great design solves problems. For wandering photographers—whether hiking in the mountains or exploring a new city on foot—the on-again-off-again issue of accessing camera gear from backpacks always lingers. California-based Mindshift Gear caught the attention of the photo community with their 2012 Kickstarter campaign for a bag design that promised to solve this problem. Now, two years later, the r180° Panorama is the final refinement of …

Esbit: Elegant Cookware for the Outdoors

With roots in foldable stoves and block fuel, the German brand continues to mix ingenuity and grit

Longtime backpackers will no doubt recognize the name Esbit. The German company’s fuel tablets and pocket stoves have been an outdoor, survival and military mainstay since its first iteration in 1936. While the brand’s fuel blocks and compact stoves have advanced with new technologies to burn cleaner and more efficiently, it’s their latest offering of outdoor-focused wares and heating equipment that’s currently grabbing attention. The …

RASH Wetsuits for Pilgrim Surf + Supply

Brooklyn's surf outpost teams up with Japan's oldest masters of neoprene for a retro-styled capsule collection

Fresh off an extremely on-point partnership with Japanese clothing brand Beams, Brooklyn-based surf shop and apparel-maker Pilgrim Surf + Supply ventured back to Land of the Rising Sun, this time for special edition wetsuits. Founder Chris Gentile teamed up with Japan’s oldest (and considered by many to be the best) atelier de neoprene, RASH, for a limited run of collaboration suits that call to mind …