Being a gear contributor at Outside is an always-on, year-round, 24/7 kind of job—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. While our days are often spent head-to-head testing for our deep-dive Gear Guides, our best discoveries often happen in the real-life moments between edit tasks or writing up testing notes. This column is a spotlight for the gear we love, but couldn’t work into a gear guide (yet): the gear that we tested out of season, the long-term tools we’re still breaking in, or the personal discoveries we just can’t stop using. As we kick off 2026, here’s the gear Outside editors are currently obsessed with, heading into January 2026.
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