I am so excited to see the winter season coming in, as it opens up a whole new world to us Southern Californians; The Anza Borrego Desert. If you have been keeping up with Outside San Diego for a while you know that the seemingly barren wasteland of the Anza-Borrego is one of my [...]

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I have been using Leki’s Corklite trekking poles throughout the spring and summer, and can officially say I have put a lot of miles on these poles, and I like them.

This last year Leki introduced the new “speedlock” system to the collapsible joints on their poles, which significantly enhanced their speed and reliability. The [...]

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DC Rainmaker is giving away a piece of gear that I have been lusting after for a long time now. The Garmin Forerunner 310XT is a multi-sport GPS device that can be used to track the most minute details of a workout. You only have a couple of days to sing up [...]

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It’s time to think about backpacking in the Anza-Borrego Desert again.  While it still is really hot out there,  it is never to early to get geared up.  Here are a few deals that make it hard  to resist picking up a little something.

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