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The Petzl Adjama ($105) has been my everyday harness for years, and the latest version gives me the one thing I wanted more of — gear space. Finding a harness that can comfortably transition from long trad routes to gym sessions and occasional alpine objectives isn’t easy. Lightweight sport models trim features to save grams, while big-wall and trad harnesses prioritize support and gear storage. The Petzl Luna is the women’s-specific counterpart to the Adjama, offering the same features with a fit shaped specifically for women. I climbed in an older Adjama for several years before testing the latest version…
The president made appointments to multiple services as efforts to boost the military remain a priority. President Donald Trump announced key military appointments in multiple military services, including the Army, Air Force and the Space Force. The routine appointments and promotions make personnel changes in the departments and will reshape how they operate as the U.S. war with Iran continues. Trump announced the military appointments via the Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Pete Hegseth, who published them in a series of releases on the DOD website. The 29th Secretary of War, the Honorable Pete Hegseth, delivers a speech during a…
Kindred Motorworks of Vallejo, Calif., is reimagining the cult classic Volkswagen Bus (aka Type 2 Transporter or “T2”) of the 1960s and ’70s. It fully transforms them into the desirable 23-window version and adds electric power, giving owners miles of smiles with more usable power and torque as well as modern amenities. There’s a catch, however: a hefty $249,000 price tag — that’s more than the cost of a house in some parts of the country. Are they worth it? “We modernize and work with vehicles people just adore,” Greg Clark, Kindred Motorworks’ Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), said. “They’re iconic.…
Air Mobility Command’s space-available travel sign-up process has run on the same basic model for years: Fill out a form, email it to whichever passenger terminal you’re departing from, and hope someone on the other end enters it correctly before your window opens. As of March 26, 2026, that changed. AMC launched a new self-signup tool incorporating every AMC location worldwide, and it’s built on fundamentally different plumbing than what came before it. What Actually Changed The old system, still technically available, routes a traveler’s information through an email that gets sent to a specific passenger terminal, where staff then…
For years now, anti-gunners have been trying their best to push gun ownership into the fringes of society. More accurately, they tried to turn it into the dirty little secret that you might be free to take part in, but you shouldn’t talk to people about it. It’s kind of like being into freaky bedroom activities or liking the Twilight movies. You might do it, but no one can know, even if it’s legal. And, frankly, we’ve played into their hands on that. People are paranoid about even talking about owning guns out of fear…
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was created to protect the firearm industry from ruinous lawsuits meant not to recoup actual damages caused by companies’ misdeeds, but to punish them for selling guns to the public. The acts of third parties, most of whom never bought a gun lawfully in their life, were laid at the feet of the industry, and Congress responded to put an end to this. The lawsuits weren’t anything but lawfare. They were an attempt to destroy the industry through legal expenses, making it too risky to do business…
The United States Coast Guard turns 236 years old this Aug. 4 — older than the Navy’s current organizational form, older than the Marine Corps as a permanent standing force and older than the country’s income tax by more than a century. It’s also, by a wide margin, the least understood branch of the U.S. military, in ways that go beyond people simply not knowing what it does day to day. From 10 Ships to a Fifth Armed Service The Coast Guard’s roots trace to Aug. 4, 1790, when Alexander Hamilton, then secretary of the treasury, persuaded Congress to authorize…
Side-by-sides used to be fairly straightforward machines. You got an engine, four tires, a bed, and enough rattling plastic to make your dang head implode. Things are a little different now, though. The 2026 Polaris Ranger XD 1500 NorthStar Mountaineer Edition costs nearly $46,000 for the three-seat model and $50,000 for the six-seat Crew. It weighs close to 3,000 pounds and comes with heated seats, power windows, air conditioning, and a touchscreen. By nearly any reasonable standard, it is a luxury side-by-side, which is apparently a thing now. After using it to haul feed, move tools and building materials, help…
Planning for a camping trip is easy. Just follow the simple outlines below, vetted by our highly experienced camping team. An easy place to begin is to consider your cslamp kit much like a home. Think of it as a bedroom, kitchen, and living room. Each section has a specific kit. The following guide is broken down into seven camping segments: car (camping next to your car at a campsite), backpacking, ultralight backpacking, wet weather, hot weather, winter, and hunting. The first section offers general camp kits, with more specific scenarios detailed in the sections below. What Should I Pack…
The government has awarded contracts worth $1.75 billion to build missile-tracking satellites for the U.S. Space Force as part of President Donald Trump’s vision for a greater national missile defense system. The contracts, awarded by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) to Sierra Space, a technology company based in Louisville, Colorado, and to L3 Harris Technologies, are for 36 total satellites to track missiles and other threats. “This contract demonstrates Sierra Space’s capabilities as a formidable player in American national security,” the company’s CEO Dan Jablonsky, said in a news release. A new U.S. Space Force patch sits…
The deadly screwworm is continuing to spread through the United States, confusing health officials who have put plans in motion to stop it. So far, US cases of screwworm infection are hovering at 35 animals, most of which are clustered in Texas. The parasite is flesh-eating, and sterile-fly projects are in place to control the spread of the New World screwworm. This parasite could reshape cross-border trade too, said Mexican cattle ranchers. Mexico’s cattle industry is in a bigger crisis than that of the US. It is facing what Álvaro Bustillos Fuentes calls “the worst storm in the history of…
This month, Kia recalled more than 460,000 Telluride SUVs due to a risk of fire — the second such recall for the automaker in the last 2 years. Both recalls affect model year 2020–2024 vehicles, and for the same defect. That reason has to do with overheating seat motors. According to Kia and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the trim panel on the side of the front seat bases could cause the switch covers to come loose, potentially causing the seat motor to run continuously and overheat. In extreme cases, overheating motors can turn into electrical fires. The…
Once upon a time, the anti-gunners cooked up a term for inexpensive handguns. They called them “Saturday Night Specials,” a way to demonize the cheap firearms that allowed poorer Americans to afford a firearm they could use to defend themselves. They did everything they could to ban the guns, constantly vilifying the inexpensive options as some great scourge to America’s inner cities. So, if prices are stable for guns, you’d think they’d be happy. After all, it means there aren’t cheap firearms running around anymore, other than a small number of manufacturers that most people…
Rockstar Games has a reputation for creating some of the most influential video games in history. Over the years, the studio has defined entire genres and set new standards for open-world gameplay. However, not all Rockstar games are available for purchase today. If someone searches for certain titles on Rockstar’s store, Steam, or the Xbox Store today, they will find that many legendary entries have been removed. This situation creates a gap in gaming history and makes it difficult for new fans to experience some of the best works by Rockstar Games. These next games have disappeared for a couple…
For over a century, the 1906 Antiquities Act has bestowed the president with extraordinary power over public lands. With one swift stroke of a pen, a president can create a national monument on federal land to protect historic landmarks or structures. Since the bill passed, 18 presidents have created 168 national monuments, but in the last decade, just two of them have been at the center of major political debate, and they are back in the news yet again. On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monuments. What Are These Monuments?…
A California gun shop in the Bay Area is facing a lawsuit over the sale of a shotgun to an 18-year-old who later used the firearm to take his own life, and the parents who initiated the civil suit are getting an assist from the legal wing of the gun control group Giffords. The lawsuit, filed on Monday in Contra Costa County Superior Court, alleges that the store was negligent for not assessing the young man’s motivation for purchasing the shotgun, as well as for selling him a gun that is not legal for hunting…
If you’ve ever introduced yourself as an Army or Air Force member at a joint command and tried to address a sailor by rank, you have probably been corrected — politely, or not. The Navy does not use rank for enlisted personnel the way every other branch does. It uses a system of rate and rating that is more specific, more layered and considerably more confusing until someone explains it clearly. The Three Terms and What Each One Means Pay grade is the starting point and the one term that works across all branches. E-1 through E-9 for enlisted, W-1…
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness was already having a bad year. In April, President Donald Trump signed H.J. Res. 140, overturning a 20-year rule that protected 225,504 acres of Superior National Forest from mineral and geothermal leasing. The decision reopened the surrounding national forest land to potential mineral development. Now, wildfires have shut down the wilderness entirely. The U.S. Forest Service closed all public access to the Boundary Waters at 12 a.m. Tuesday, July 14, as fires spread amid unusually hot, dry, and windy weather. The closure covers the entire 1-million–acre wilderness and approximately 1,900 campsites. The Forest Service…
Last year, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said you cannot jail your way out of violence. He called incarceration racist, immoral, and unholy. In other words, people shouldn’t go to prison for their misdeeds. This, of course, is the same Brandon Johnson who canceled the city’s contract with ShotSpotter because it was racist, yet still hasn’t bothered to find a replacement, like he said he would.But, hey, I’m sure all of this is working out well. After all, Illinois has a ton of gun control on the books because people in Chicago demanded it. I guess…
A Yellowstone tourist who was launched into the air by a charging bison is finally sharing his side of the story. And says he’s lucky to be alive. According to the TODAY show, 65-year-old Carl McDaniel is recovering after suffering a broken femur in four places when a massive bison attacked him last week in Yellowstone National Park. The frightening encounter, caught on video, quickly went viral. McDaniel told CNN he and his grandson were about 100 yards from the animal, taking a few photos before continuing on their way. Wildlife photographer Mike McLeod, who filmed the incident, said the…
