Sarah Stewart

Sarah covers outdoor living for OutsideResource — hiking gear, camping setups, and the kind of backyard-to-backcountry advice that actually holds up outside the store aisle. She tests recommendations against real trips rather than spec sheets, and her pieces tend to flag the one detail a product listing leaves out: the strap that digs in after mile six, the tent that's great until it actually rains. She's especially interested in gear that earns its weight, since everything you bring outside you eventually have to carry.

Sarah keeps a running list of gear she's returned after one trip, which has made her a fairly ruthless judge of what's actually worth buying versus what just photographs well. She'd rather recommend the boring, reliable option than the one with the flashier marketing.