Your Guide Pick™

We decipher the industry jargon, sponsored listicles, and 20-minute reviews, and cut to the chase. We want to distill the world of outdoors, and specifically mountaineering, gear, and apparel, creating cohesion and understanding of the Outdoor industry's overly techincal explanations. And we’ve developed a tool that helps do exactly that: Guide Pick.

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Guide Pick

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Smith

$215.00

Our Guides Choose This Goggle Glacier Glasses might come to mind before goggles in terms of mountaineering, but when there are 70 mph winds howling and your contacts are frozen in your eyes, we're...

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Therm-a-Rest

from $37.46

~~$49.95~~

A Favorite of the Ultra-lite Elite Always a favorite of the ultralight elite, the Z Lite SOL expands upon the utralight performance of the Original Z Lite by adding Therm-a-Rest's reflective Therma...

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Julbo

from $170.00

Another Guide Pick™ classic, the Julbo Shield Glacier Glasses have been loved by climbers for years, with good reason. Shield will open your field of vision and expand your mind in the mountains. ...

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Black Diamond

from $149.96

~~$199.95~~

A 12-Point Crampon For Your Mountain Objectives The perfect 12-point crampon for Rainier and general mountaineering. Built for the variable, moderate terrain of classic mountaineering routes in pl...

Smith

$275.00

High End Google for you High End Life You can only scope your line if you can see where you're going. Putting on the Smith I/O MAG goggles is like flipping the switch from regular to widescree...

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Julbo

from $179.95

Guide Pick for a Reason Faster, higher, stronger: High-alpine mountaineering continues to evolve and so does Julbo's flagship model for climbing in alpine environments. The Explorer 2.0 is more erg...

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Outdoor Research

$59.99

~~$99.00~~

Consistently the Best Every year we ask RMI Expeditions' guides which gaiters they recommend for mountaineering, and since they came on the market years ago, the Expedition Crocodile Gaiters have ...

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Black Diamond

$127.46

~~$169.95~~

Ideal Crampon for General Mountaineering For general mountaineering, we prefer 10 point over 12 point crampons, and when it comes to 10 pointers, Black Diamond's Contact Strap is hard to beat. We'v...

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