By Stephen Regenold

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Stephen Regenold, a nationally-syndicated newspaper columnist, writes The Gear Junkie column for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Albuquerque Journal, Greensboro News-Record, Billings Gazette, and several other publications. Regenold's writing on travel, adventure and the outdoors appears regularly in the New York Times.
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The Daily Dose Blog : The Gear Junkie Scoop -- Heidiskis 08.20.08
Say it with me: "3,800 Euros for a pair of skis." That's about $5,913 as per this week's currency exchange. But Heidiskis, a Montreux, Switzerland, boutique ski brand touts its custom winter sticks as being worthy of their Matterhorn-high price tags. . .

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Gear Review Archive : Reviews and Counting...
The Gear Review Archive contains hundreds of product reviews -- tents, backpacks, mountain bikes, knives, energy bars, flashlights, wetsuits, headlamps, kayaks, travel luggage, and footwear of all kind, just to name a few. All reviews were written by Stephen Regenold; they originally appeared in his nationally-syndicated newspaper column, The Gear Junkie.

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New York Times Travel Articles by Stephen Regenold

Stephen Regenold (aka The Gear Junkie) is a regular contributor to New York Times, where his writing on travel, adventure and the outdoors appears in the Escapes, Travel, Sports and Styles sections. Recent story assignments delivered Regenold to the flanks of Mount Shasta in northern California; the Nevada desert in search of UFOs; underground in Mexico to swim through cenotes; and north into remote Ontario in search of virgin icefalls to climb on the shore of Lake Superior.

View all of his articles on nytimes.com here.