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OR Report 2: New Products on Deck

For a first-time visitor such as me, the summer Outdoor Retailer trade show is a fairly dazzling event. With more than 1,100 exhibitors crammed into the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, from heavyweights (The North Face) to innovative emerging brands (NEMO Equipment, with a interesting line of clever tents), OR is like an REI flagship store multiplied by 20. Maybe 50. I’ve seen people dressed up as insects on one level and a dancing bottle of insect repellent on another. It ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on August 3, 2010 8:14 PM & Tagged Mountain House, Outdoor Retailer and camelbak | permalink | Comments



A Sneak Peek at New Gear: What Do You Want to Know?

Interested to know what clever new wrinkles will appear in next year's outdoor gear? Me, too. Got a few questions you'd like to ask? Great; send them my way and I'll add the best of them to my own list. Next week I'm zooming to Salt Lake City for a popular trade show known as the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, an annual preview party for outdoor gear due to arrive this fall, winter or in 2011. I have not previously attended OR (those 2 letters serve as the event's hipster shorthand), but with ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on July 30, 2010 6:34 PM & Tagged Big Agnes, Black Diamond. Jetboil, Brooks, Exped, Marmot, Merrell, Nike, Outdoor Retailer, Petzl, Saucony, Teva, Vibram Five Fingers and camelbak | permalink | Comments