Huckberry, purveyors of finely curated clothing and gear for the sort of person equally at home in the woods and the city, has started its holiday sale. Huckberry’s Black Friday sale covers a wide range, from the company’s own house brands to favorites from the likes of GoRuck and Peak Design. We’ve tested and love quite a bit of Huckberry’s stuff, especially the Proof 72-hour merino T-shirt. If you buy nothing else this year, buy that. Trust me. Check out the other deals, which we’ve rounded up below.
Great Deals on our Favorite Travel Clothes
Huckberry’s Proof 72-Hour Merino is our favorite merino wool T-shirt. The cut and style are not overly sporty, making it more versatile than some others, from everyday wear around town to a trip to the gym. Mine is still soft after six months of wear and washing. At 87 percent 150 GSM superfine merino wool (16.5 micron) and 13 percent nylon, this T-shirt makes a great starter for those new to merino wool—there’s enough nylon that it’s stretchy, and not the least bit itchy.
If I could only buy one thing in this guide, this is it. Huckerry’s Flint and Tinder waxed garments are the best jackets. Multiple WIRED editors and writers have the waxed canvas trucker jacket (alas, not currently on sale), and I want basically every other waxed jacket they make, including this one, which is more of a quilted shirt, with 100 percent recycled Primaloft insulation.
I once called these darn near the perfect pants and several years later, I stand by that. The perfect pants are understated and do not draw attention to the wearer. The perfect pants are made of natural fibers. These are not entirely natural fibers, alas (I did say nearly perfect), but they have enough pockets, and they are roomy pockets. Combined with a roomy (but not baggy cut), the main pockets are deep enough to hold my Fujifilm X70 camera, notebook, Earth’s best pencil—what else do you need? There is a downside, however. These are all inseam 31 inches, regardless of waist size. Sorry tall friends, move along, nothing to see here.
Photograph: Scott Gilbertson
Our favorite zero-drop boot, these Lems are incredibly well made and they have that rugged leather boot look that’s otherwise missing in the barefoot shoe world. The 13-mm sole is somewhat jarring after years in 6-mm sandals, but the toe box is wide, which helps give them a different feel than your typical leather boots. When the snow has been dumping and the thermometer is just a puddle of red well below 0 degrees, these are nice to have.
Deals on Lock Pick Kits and Other Gear
OK, truth be told, this whole guide is just here so I could link to this. It gets worse. I have not actually tested this thing, but I just bought it. Because seriously, who doesn’t want to learn to pick locks? There seems to be a strong overlap between programming and lock picking, or at least that’s been my experience hanging around a lot of programmers. If you haven’t tried picking locks before, this set has everything you need to teach yourself. There’s a clear padlock so you can see the tumblers and springs as you monkey with them using the tension wrench and four included picks.
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Photograph: Matthew Korfhage
Our favorite buy-it-for-life coffee maker, the Moccamaster KBGV Select is durable, repairable, analog, and built like a tank. It’s a classic exemplar of brewing precision, holding brewing temperatures within a variance of 4 degrees Celsius and extracting coffee within extremely tight parameters. Until recently, about half the SCA-certified coffee makers in the world were just different models of Technivorm Moccamaster. If you obsess over coffee, this is the coffee maker to get.
What if there were a film camera that captured digital images? That’s what the Camp Snap camera is, the screen free aspect means that, like, film, you don’t know how your images look until later— you can keep photographing without getting pulled out of the moment as much. The Camp Snap can hold up to 2,000 photos on the preinstalled memory card, and it comes with a USB-C cable to download the photos onto your computer. This one is a fun gift to give too.
Photograph: Peak Design
The Everyday Backpack is one of our favorite camera bags, but it doesn’t have to be that. It’s really just a nice EDC backpack with some well thought out features, like a tuck-away waist strap, three FlexFold dividers, and a nice strap for attaching it to the handle of your rolling carry on bag. Peak Design is also having a sale right now, and my all-time favorite tech pouch is $10 off. It pairs nicely with this bag.
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