

Today’s guest blogger, REI employee Ching Fu, recounts the soaring highs and chilly lows of her bike tour of the entire Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway last summer: It had been raining for 3 days straight, and I was ready to just be home. But I had to keep pedaling. The bitter cold rain was an unwelcome surprise, especially since it was July in the southeast... ...
Of the thousands of items being paraded down the new-product catwalk at the summer Outdoor Retailer trade show here in Salt Lake City, none may elicit a bigger wow this year than the DeLorme inReach satellite communicator. Why it impresses: The inReach device, available Oct. 1 (estimated price: $249.95), enables 2-way text communication from virtually any spot on the globe. Only a satellite telephone (pricey, chunky, weighty) can match its 2-way communication capabilities when an information ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on August 4, 2011 8:04 PM & Tagged DeLorme, Outdoor Retailer and Point 65 kayaks | permalink | Comments
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