{"id":685,"date":"2017-03-13T13:42:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T13:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstar.bold-themes.com\/travel\/?p=685"},"modified":"2017-03-13T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T13:42:39","slug":"xl-travel-camping-backpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/blog\/2017\/03\/13\/xl-travel-camping-backpack\/","title":{"rendered":"XL Travel Camping Backpack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s award season again, which means that fans of the outdoors eagerly anticipate one of the biggies:\u00a0<em>Backpacker<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u2019s Editors\u2019 Choice Awards. The honor confers a kind of Holy Grail status on winners, so act fast if you have your eye on one of these stars.<\/p>\n<p><em>Backpacker<\/em>\u00a0editors, no-nonsense experts with years of backcountry experience, gather annually for this sacred ritual. The selection process begins without predetermined categories or a set number of recipients. Extensive testing throughout the year drives the process, and only elite performers are left standing at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s time to shine our 1,000-lumen headlamp on some of the big winners: the Exped SynMat Hyperlite Duo sleeping pad, men\u2019s and women\u2019s Columbia OutDry Ex Diamond rain shells, men\u2019s Mountain Hardwear AP pants and the MSR Guardian Purifier. One entr\u00e9e made the cut: Backpacker\u2019s Pantry Chana Masala. And, perhaps to raise a toast to that tasty treat, the Stanley Stainless-Steel Shot Glass Set was also honored.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to choosing the best new gear,\u00a0<em>Backpacker<\/em>\u00a0bestows its Editors\u2019 Choice Gold Award on gear that\u2019s ascended to legendary status over the past five years. This year that distinguished honor goes to men\u2019s and women\u2019s Vasque Skywalk Gore-Tex<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Hiking Boots.<\/p>\n<p>With varying levels of success, jacket makers have been trying to one-up Gore-Tex<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>technology for decades now. OutDry Extreme is a worthy waterproof\/breathable contender. What\u2019s unique about its microporous magic is that no durable water repellent (DWR) coating is required. Its surface has something more akin to \u201cPWR\u201d (perpetual water repellency), a quality that\u2019s engineered directly into the material. So, unlike almost any other type of rain jacket, the waterproof\/breathable performance of these shells won\u2019t diminish over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s award season again, which means that fans of the outdoors eagerly anticipate one of the biggies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}