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10 Tips for Sleeping at the Trailhead


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10 Tips for Sleeping at the Trailhead

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DIGITAL TRENDS — We’ve all seen the Instagram account of the guy with the tricked out Sprinter, complete with custom solar panels, multi-sport racks and off-roading wheels. But you don’t need a decked out camper van to sleep in your car. In fact, with the right planning and proper gear, you can rest well in virtually any vehicle. Whether your goal is to...
StereoActive Fusion


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Party On the Water With StereoActive

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MEN'S JOURNAL — Whether rocking out while tossing back a few cold ones with your buddies on a sunny afternoon or paddling solo and enjoying a serene sunset with your favorite podcast, listening to music on your SUP, kayak, or canoe has, until now, been risky business. Fusion’s...
Vail Colorado


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Why Downhill Camera Operators Are Snowboarding’s True Unsung Heroes

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DIGITAL TRENDS — There is a famous adage about 1930s tap dancing legend Ginger Rogers which talks about how she did everything Fred Astaire did “only backward and in high heels.” In the world of snow sports, the same could be said for downhill...
Best Snowboarding Boots


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Slash lines in Comfort With the Year’s Best Snowboard Boots

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DIGITAL TRENDS — Oh, the importance of snowboarding boots. Is it even possible to count the ways? A nice pair of boots turns your day into a heavenly montage of cozy lines and cushy pow turns, underscored by warm, toasty feet. A crappy pair creates a horror sequence of frozen toes, cramped ankles, and smothered circulation — not to mention that aching band of ankle numbness known only to snowboarders, especially those who’ve ridden with cheap or ill-fitting boots...
Toby Miller


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Toby Miller on Being Shaun White’s Protege and the Future of Snowboarding

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DIGITAL TRENDS — Toby Miller got his first snowboard when he was just six years old. In the two years that followed, he took so well to the sport that his parents packed their bags and moved from Southern California to the mountains of Lake Tahoe so he...
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Whether Shredding Resorts or Backcountry, These Snowboards Perform the Best

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DIGITAL TRENDS — Surf-inspired styles continue to dominate the powder scene in 2017, with widening noses and an ever-expanding range of tail shapes. There were poppy park boards with pressy noses, free-riding slayers stocked with backcountry slash-tech, and an expansive array of all-mountain shredders. This year produced so many exceptional boards, it was difficult to...
GLCR Paclite Multi Jacket


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Get Rid of Your Jacket Quiver, This Hi-Tech 686 GLCR Works For Every Sport

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DIGITAL TRENDS — Spring is here — that beautiful but annoying time of year when you can’t quite get comfortable. Thankfully, the apparel brand 686 just launched a new three-season jacket meant to address this very problem. Dubbed the GLCR Paclite Multi Jacket, 686’s latest release is a brand-new, high-tech piece of apparel specifically designed to...
Ski goggles


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These Are Hands-Down the Best Ski and Snowboard Goggles of the Year

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DIGITAL TRENDS — After your boots and bindings, a solid set of goggles is arguably your most important piece of gear. It’s hard to shred out a perfect line when your goggles are fogged up or making you cry from a shoddy seal. Fortunately, the 2016/17 winter season has brought boatloads of awesome new innovations in goggle technology to the ski and snowboard world. We tested dozens of...
Kovea electric stove induction cooker


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Kovea’s Electric Induction Camping Stove Lightens the Camping Load By Ditching Propane

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DIGITAL TRENDS — The best part of cooking in the woods with a camp stove is arguably whipping up some delicious bacon and Dutch pancakes. The worst part? Dragging along throngs of cumbersome propane canisters. The outdoor gear company Kovea has come up with a solution to the problem: a portable electric induction cooker. Loads better for the environment and void of any hazardous fumes or landfill fodder, this...
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More Outdoor Stories — Live Feed

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DIGITAL TRENDS — Rachel discovered outdoor recreation in ’98 when she stumbled into a river town one summer and left a raft guide 3 months later. She worked at ski resorts and snowboard shops before launching her career as a journalist which has included writing for print newspapers, magazines and various...
Rachel Cavanaugh
Portland, Oregon

Rachel Cavanaugh is a long-time journalist based in the Pacific Northwest. With more than 18 years of experience as a news reporter, writer, photographer, editor, and digital producer, her work has been featured in Men's Journal, MSN, The Hollywood Reporter, Bustle, Digital Trends, Elite Daily, Matador Network, Gear Junkie, Inverse, Mic, and other publications. She's worked as a Digital Producer for Microsoft’s msnNOW, Digital Content Writer on Nike's Global Consumer Services' team, Gear Reviewer for Digital Trends' Outdoors and Sports section, Staff Commerce Writer for Bustle's Outdoor and Fitness E-Commerce platform, and Editor-in-Chief of the Goldendale Sentinel, a weekly print newspaper in Washington state. Most recently, she was the Editorial Director for Columbia Sportswear's Tough Mother Outdoor Guide, helping to conceptualize and global retail giant's first ever digital magazine and build it from the ground up. Over a four-year period from 2020 to 2024, she grew the publication into a journalistically-styled content platform, creating compelling storytelling about people and places in the outdoors. She was responsible for all content strategy and production from story ideation and planning to research, interviews, and article delivery. In addition to writing higher-level brand stories, she managed a small team of freelance writers. She currently splits her time between Baja, California where she lives in an RV on the beach, and Hood River, Oregon where she spends her free time kiteboarding, snowboarding, and playing with dogs.

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