From The Trail
Customer Support Coordinator Kate spent a week in Moab recently, which included a backpacking trip in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Parks. She graciously wrote up our very first trip report of 2024 to recap her trip! Where did...
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These days, when I head out to longer backpacking trips, they are mostly family trips so that my kids (8 and 6, in 2022) continue to get more comfortable backpacking. This is a trip report of a family backpacking trip we...
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Deb Malkin is a fat-positive massage therapist from the Bay Area who hiked Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania this March with the Curvy Kili Crew, a group of 20 plus-sized adventuresome women.
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We're working on an improved and stronger version of our carbon fiber Vertex Poles that will use a middle aluminum shaft (compared to 5 carbon shafts). We asked Skip to take them on a hike and test the feel of...
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Our local play and testing ground here at Cnoc Outdoors is the Columbia River Gorge: we can hit the first trailhead 20 minutes out of Portland and enjoy some amazing hikes. One of my favorite ones is sort of a...
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