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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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Stephen Regenold -- a world-traveling adventurer/journalist with a home base in Minneapolis, Minnesota -- is The Gear Junkie. Regenold is a skier, climber, cyclist, orienteer, adventure racer, father, husband, dog owner, karaoke aficionado and all-around thrill-seeker. Expeditions and elaborate equipment tests over the past three years took Regenold to corners as far afield as Ucluelet, British Colombia; Moab, Utah; Kyoto, Japan; North Dakota; Germany's highest peak, the Zugspitze; sunny San Luis Obispo, Calif. (twice!); the summit of Mt. Rainier; Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario; Quintana Roo, Mexico; and the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia (to name a few). Regenold still manages to spend time with his wife, Tara, their new baby boy, Charles, 2-year-old daughter, Gwen, and a 90-pound Weimaraner named Rodney.

Regenold is a freelance correspondent for New York Times. See an archive of his Times work here:
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=regenold&srchst=nyt Regenold has been active in outdoors journalism (and all the corresponding sports and adventures that go with the gig) for several years. He was the founding editor of Vertical Jones magazine, a climbing publication (1997 - 2001). In addition to the weekly Gear Junkie newspaper column, he writes on outdoors gear and adventure travel for publications including New York Times, Forbes Traveler, Los Angeles Times and Popular Science magazine.

Regenold tests gear to death and gives honest positive and negative reviews -- no regurgitated press releases here. THEGEARJUNKIE.com is a site devoted to the outdoors, health, fitness, adventure travel, and all the gear and equipment associated with those pursuits. It is based off a nationally-syndicated newspaper column of the same name written by freelance journalist Stephen Regenold. Mike Santi (mike@thegearjunkie.com) serves as Online Publisher; John Peacock (john@thegearjunkie.com) is Director of Technology.

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The Gear Junkie newspaper column, which debuted in 2002 in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and now appears weekly across the country, is featured in the following publications: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Albuquerque Journal, Spokane Spokesman-Review, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Greensboro News-Record, Redding Record Searchlight, Billings Gazette, Casper Star-Tribune, among others.

Email Regenold at: stephen@thegearjunkie.com

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Regenold cranks through a 43-degree turn on the wooden track of the Velodrome, an Olympic-caliber racing venue in Blaine, Minn. This is the view from a handlebar-mounted camera. Photo credit: Jeff Wheeler. Summit of Mount Rainier, just after dawn, July 2004. Photo credit: Shawn Jeppesen Team Bulleit, Primal Quest Utah, 2006. Regenold is second in from left. This race featured 10 days of desert, mountain and river travel on a nonstop 400+ mile course. Photo credit: Gordon Wright.