Cheers for Gear
This issue is all about the equipment, apparel, and tools that help make the outdoors so much fun. The centerpiece: 50 pages of reviews, covering 156 products—with links to reviews totaling nearly 500 in all. Check it out starting on page 62. As you can imagine, the logistics involved were enormous, and we’re lucky to have gear editors Jenny Wiegand, Jonathan Beverly, Benjamin Tepler, and Kelly Klein. This team wrangled 48 experts who spent months testing products. Wiegand, the project leader, is well suited to the challenge, since she’s been around outdoor gear her entire life. She grew up in an Alpine resort town in southern Germany, where her dad was a professional ski instructor and a golf pro for the Armed Forces Recreation Center, which provides outdoor opportunities to…