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THE GEAR JUNKIE ANNOUNCES TOP GEAR OF 2007
10 Field-Tested Outdoors & Fitness Product Picks
Minneapolis, Minn., December 27, 2007. . . The nationally-syndicated newspaper columnist Stephen Regenold — aka "The Gear Junkie" — has announced The Gear Junkie's Top 10 Gear of the Year Awards for 2007.
After training hundreds of hours and competing in a dozen ultra-endurance adventures around the country over the past 12 months, Regenold chose 10 products that stood out. "From marathons to mountaineering trips in northern California, to kayaking in the jungle of Quintana Roo, the value of top-notch outdoors equipment continually hit home for me this year," Regenold said.
Regenold chose products that helped him battle heat, freezing temps, fatigue and disorientation in locales as far flung as Vermont, Mexico, North Dakota and Nevada.
The gear — which includes running shoes, a backpack, snowshoes, skis, a bike, a training watch, and a sleeping bag system — represents the best of the best from the hundreds of products Regenold reviewed in 2007 for "The Gear Junkie" column, which runs weekly in 10 newspapers around the U.S.
Major expeditions/events where Regenold tested gear included the Twin Cities marathon; a climb on the 14,162-foot stratovolcano of Mount Shasta; the Ski Utah Interconnect Tour; cenote diving on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula; velodrome track-bike racing; a trip to scout "natural waterslides" in Vermont's Green Mountains; and a 6-hour orienteering rogaine in the Chequamegon National Forest of northern Wisconsin.
"These 10 gear picks were instrumental in making my adventures a success this year," Regenold said.
Here is the full list of Regenold's picks:
THE GEAR JUNKIE'S TOP 10 GEAR OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2007
1. Newton Running Gravity Shoes
2. Atomic Snoop Daddy ski
3. Adventure Medical Kits Thermo-Lite 2 Bivvy
4. Inov-8 Race Pro 12 backpack
5. Kahtoola Inc. FLIGHTsystem snowshoes
6. Kona Paddy Wagon bike
7. Polar RS800G3 Multisport Training System
8. Big Agnes Dream Island Sleeping Bag
9. Ibex Qu T shirt
10. Salomon S-Lab XA Pro 3 off-trail shoes
(See here — http://thegearjunkie.com/top-10-gear-of-the-year-awards-2007 — for the complete story.)
ABOUT THE GEAR JUNKIE:
Since 2002, Stephen Regenold's "The Gear Junkie" column has been the nation's No. 1 syndicated newspaper column on the outdoors. It is distributed weekly to 10 major daily newspapers, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Albuquerque Journal, Casper Star-Tribune, Spokane Spokesman-Review, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Greensboro News-Record, Cape Cod Times, Jackson Hole Star Tribune, Redding Record Searchlight, Billings Gazette, and the Twin Falls Times-News. Active.com carries the column online, as well as Regenold's web site, http://thegearjunkie.com. Total weekly circulation: 2 million+
ABOUT THEGEARJUNKIE.com:
Operated by Monopoint Media LLC of Minneapolis, Minn., THEGEARJUNKIE.com was founded in 2006. It is an online publication 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, a world-traveling adventurer/journalist with a home base in Minnesota.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Press Contact: Stephen Regenold
Editor and Publisher, TheGearJunkie.com
stephen@thegearjunkie.com
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