Columbia
Columbia Bora Bora Booney Hat, UPF 50
Off-season sun is still sea-island sun; the brim rides the bike basket.
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MiiR
MiiR 64oz Insulated Growler
Fill it at the cider press and it keeps the batch cold and fizzy all the way back downstate.
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Kuju Coffee
Basecamp Blend Pocket PourOver Coffee, 6-Pack
Real pour-over from a pocket, for drinking on the bluff at first light before the village wakes.
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Knopf
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America: Second Edition
The quiet peninsula is mostly seabirds and eiders; a Sibley in the daypack turns the loop road into a checklist.
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Holt Paperbacks
The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Beston wrote it in a cottage on this very beach; walking it with his year in hand doubles the miles.
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Victorinox
Classic SD Pocket Knife
A keychain blade for slicing a still-warm peach on the tailgate before the basket ever reaches home.
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Stanley
Classic Easy Fill Wide Mouth Flask, 8 oz.
Steeplechase mornings run cold along the rail; a pocket flask of something brown is local custom.
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Columbia
PFG Bahama II Long Sleeve Shirt
On shadeless grass flats the sun comes off the water twice; this is all-day cover that stays cool.
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Minnetonka
Men's Sheepskin Hardsole Moccasin Slippers
Cold inn floorboards are the real weather on a hearth trip; genuine sheepskin solves them the moment boots come off.
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WE Games
Cabinet Cribbage Set, Solid Wood Continuous 3 Track Board
Pegs and cards store inside the board, ready for long lodge evenings when the fire is the entertainment.
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Opinel
No. 10 Stainless Steel Corkscrew Folding Knife
One pocket tool that opens the bottle and cuts the cheese for a picnic between vineyard rows.
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Toadfish
Put 'Em Back Oyster Knife
Cedar Key runs on shellfish; a proper shucker turns a dockside dozen into the trip's best hour.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Didion's California essays read differently with your feet in the actual golden light she was writing about.
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Prism Kites
Pocket Flyer Single-Line Kite
Fits in a jacket pocket through two ferries, then turns a car-free beach afternoon with kids into the highlight.
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DeLorme
DeLorme Atlas and Gazetteer Massachusetts
The gold back roads around Lenox have no cell signal worth trusting; this finds the lanes the apps miss.
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Aladdin
Misty of Chincoteague
The book that made these ponies famous, read aloud within sight of the actual herd.
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Penguin Classics
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Irving wrote these hills into American myth; reading him on the Hudson line is the whole point.
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Holt Paperbacks
The Poetry of Robert Frost
Frost wrote these woods and stone walls; October in Vermont is the season the poems were made from.
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Smartwool
Men's Classic Thermal Merino Base Layer 1/4 Zip
Handles forty-degree market mornings and warm afternoons in one layer, which is exactly the swing these weeks deliver.
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Grand Central Publishing
Bless Me, Ultima
Anaya's New Mexico classic, read within smelling distance of the roasters that anchor it.
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Penguin Classics
Ethan Frome
Wharton wrote it at The Mount, ten minutes from town; the landscape outside the window is the book's.
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Marmot
Men's PreCip Eco Rain Jacket
A true rain shell for waterfall spray, lake squalls, and sideways coastal mist; stuffs into its own pocket between showers.
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Penguin Books
Away Off Shore
Philbrick's history of Nantucket's people, best read on the sand it describes with the crowds gone home.
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Ecco
Serena: A Novel
Rash's dark logging-camp novel is set in these exact mountains, and it makes the old hardwoods feel earned.
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