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Greg Balkin (@gregbalkin) puts his gear to the test on a very soggy day in Paradise, WA on the south slope of Mt. Rainier.Along for the ride is a 30L Everyday Backpack, Shell camera cover, Clutch hand strap, Capture camera clip, and a mean, mean beard.

Our buddy Adam Wells (@ajwells) just moved to Seattle and spent the day getting to know his new stomping ground. And what a lovely stomping ground it is.Tagging along was one of our brand-spankin' new Everyday Sling bags, plus a SlideLITE mirrorless camera strap and a trusty o...

Every so often, us folks on the Peak Design team get itchy. After some quick data analysis, here’s the breakdown of causes:City Livin’: 97%Poison oak: 3%The only cure (aside from calamine lotion) is to get the heck out of town via the fastest means of conveyance. And if you’ve...

When Charlie Keating first DM’d us on Instagram, we were immediately swept into his brilliant gallery. His style of capture reminded us of Chris Burkard and Christian McLeod. He has a knack for getting way, way out there, and once he’s there, he seems to see things in a slight...

If you haven’t met Annie on the Peak Design team, here’s why you should:1. She’s our Director of Community and Sustainability2. She’s a badass photographer3. Her family is the most adorbs ever4. her spaghetti is on fleek5. sometimes she lives in a vanTrue story. Annie recently...

Our friends at ƒ/8 Workshops take photographers and adventurers off the beaten path to places that even the well-traveled seldom step foot. And there are few paths less beaten than the Faroe Islands, a small isolated subpolar archipelago that sits midway between Iceland and Sc...

Dave Katz gets after it. He’s a filmmaker, photographer, adventurer, writer, and a great friend of Peak Design. We met him a couple years ago, and ever since then we spot him every month or so with a whole new story from a whole new place. Last year he tagged us in a post he m...

We met Gale Straub a couple years ago in her natural element: on the road.She was driving across the country in a home-renovated Sprinter van with her partner in crime Jon Gaffney. The couple stopped in Austin and we encouraged them to take advantage of everything Austin has t...

It was the interwebs that brought John Dunaway into our lives. He had posted a shot of himself walking into the woods to chop down a Christmas tree, with an Everyday Messenger slung over his shoulder. We saw it and thought “damn, this guy looks like a manly dude.” Then we took...