"The Gear Junkie" is a nationally-syndicated newspaper column in the United States. It covers outdoors gear and apparel and is written by Stephen Regenold, a journalist and freelance writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The column debuted in 2002 in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. It now appears weekly in newspapers including Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Albuquerque Journal, Redding Record Searchlight, Billings Gazette, Casper Star-Tribune, among others.
Subjects range from backpacking to marathon running. Regenold distinguishes his column by testing all gear himself — be it on a mountain climb in Norway or a 20-mile training run in his home town.