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I’m in the market for a pair of plastic boots and have narrowed the field to two candidates: Koflach Arctis Expe (at $365, near the outer extreme of my budget) and Scrapa Inverno (at $279, a little more affordable). My foot (size 10) is wide, with a low arch, and I know the Invernos tend to...

We’re planning on climbing Bearpen and Vly sometime before hunting (firearm) season starts. We’ll be hiking from the col between the two mountains. Are the herd paths going up these mountains easy to locate? On the map, neither looks difficult to navigate, but I've heard there’s a network of...

We're planning a hike up Table Mt. sometime in the next few weeks and would like to head over to Lone as well. The Catskills guidebook says there's a herd path a little way past the summit of Table (on the way to Peekamoose) that leads over to Lone. Is this herd path obvious? Is it the...

I understand that The North Face was purchased by Vanity Fair and that a certain amount of fashion/consumer influence will be evident in the company's more popular jackets. But the Mountain Light jacket I recently bought was a joke. Its core-vent zips fall directly under your pack straps. Its...