Electronics
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Buyer's Guide
The Best GPS Watches for Hiking (2026)
The best GPS watch for hiking is the Garmin fenix 8: the full-map, weeks-of-battery flagship the rest of the category is measured against. Around it we ranked the field by what each tier of money actually buys, from the $199 COROS Pace 3 to the $1,300 fenix 8 Pro, through the value-play epix Pro, the rugged Instinct 3 Solar, and the flagships from Suunto and COROS.
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Buyer's Guide
The Best Power Banks for Thru-Hiking & Backpacking (2026)
Your phone is your map, your camera, your library, and your rescue line, and between resupplies the power bank in your hip belt pocket IS the power grid. We ranked the three 10,000 mAh banks worth carrying, from the $23 Anker workhorse to the 5.3-ounce listed Nitecore NB10000 that became the thru-hiker consensus, and we judged them on the only spec that matters on trail: mAh per ounce.
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