2026 Gift Guide

These have proven weirdly popular, as I assume we are all at point in our gear journey where we don’t bother having people buy us stuff. I imagine we have all experienced something like this conversation: Partner: “Do you want a knife for Christmas?” Reader: “YES!” Partner: “Which one?” Reader: “Well…it might be hard to find, but I want the Spyderco Native 5 Trout handle Sprint Run in S90V.” Partner: “Is that a knife? I don’t even understand what you just said. Please go buy that yourself.” But apparently I was wrong. So without further ado, here is my annual Christmas Listicle. The idea behind this article is that I mix in a few gear items and other gear adjacent items for folks trying to buy for dudes or dudes giving a list to others (or buying themselves) and one book. Why a book? Well, see, we are in the midst of a literacy crisis in this country, so I thought it might make sense to highlight a good book. After all, Alexander the Great was on to something when he said: “Without…

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