The WildeBeat / Dec-08-2005

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Thu, Dec 08, 2005

The Year in Gear

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This gear program might give you some holiday shopping ideas. Steve asked three volunteer editors from Backpack Gear Test to pick their favorites: Rick Allnutt¹, Jim Sabiston², and Edward Ripley-Duggan³. Out of thousands of reviews published on BGT this year, they recommended these:

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