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Recent dispatches
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The AT Is Getting a Permit System. Nobody's Calling It That Yet.
"ATCamp is voluntary. It's also increasingly embedded in every outfitter and hostel on the corridor. That pattern is familiar."
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Boots Lost the Argument. Some People Just Haven't Heard Yet.
"The ankle support case for hiking boots doesn't hold up to the injury literature. The weight penalty is real. The reasons to still wear them are narrower than the gear industry wants you to believe."
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DCF Is Dying. Here's What's Actually Replacing It.
"The delamination failure mode that ends every DCF pack — and the material that sidesteps it entirely."
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