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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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The Best Backpack Phone Holders & Add-On Pockets (2026)
Your phone is your camera, your map, and your emergency line, and on most packs it lives in the worst pocket you own. We ranked the fixes: the Peak Design clip that owns the category, a phone-carry sling from the same house, an Osprey add-on pocket for bare hipbelts, and Osprey's waist pack for the days you carry no pack at all, sorted by the only metric that matters, whether you can reach it without stopping.
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