Outdoors
Best sleeping bags for three-season camping
The temperature on the label is usually not the temperature you can sleep at. What the ratings mean and how to read them.
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The best outdoors
Tents, boots and packs, tested past the car park.
Outdoors
Best trekking poles
Aluminium or carbon, telescoping or folding. The two decisions that matter, and the pole that suits most walkers without needing to be babied.
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Outdoors
Best camping stoves for a car camping trip
When the car carries the weight, a stove can be built for cooking rather than for grams. Why the BTU number on the box does not tell you what you need.
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Outdoors
Best coolers that hold ice for 48 hours
Forty-eight hours turns out to be a low bar: every hard cooler in the biggest test we can read cleared it. What the extra days cost, and who needs them.
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Outdoors
Best headlamps for night hiking
Lumens are the number on the box and rarely the number that matters. Beam shape, runtime and how to compare them honestly.
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Outdoors
Best hiking boots for wide feet
Most boot brands are cut narrow, and 'wide' means different things to each of them. The last widths that matter and how to work out yours.
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Outdoors
Best tents for two people
Most two-person tents fit two people only in the sense that two sleeping bags will physically go in. The measurements to check before you buy.
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Outdoors
Best water bottles that keep ice overnight
Every vacuum flask claims to hold ice for 24 hours. The claim is testable, and most of them do not.
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