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Backcountry Magazine 116 - The 2018 Gear Guide drinkware Tommy Caldwell has pursued hardBetween our Powder Mountain Gear Test Week and Crested Butte Board Test, we left no standout hardgood untested. The best of its reviewed in vivid, credible and reliable detail in our Gear Guide, on newsstands September 26. But to satiate your gear thirst til then, were announcing our 2018 Editors Choice Awards right here. This year, for the first time ever, weve doubled down on the Gear Guide, not just reviewing 145 skis, splitboards, boots and