Equipment, Supplies and Gifts for Adventure Travel

Inexpensive survival straps can be used in an emergency for anything from tying a tourniquet to hauling up someone who slipped over a cliff.

This performance sports apparel has an exoskeleton power system that targets key areas, focuses power into your muscles, and speeds recovery. Weekend warriors and professional athletes love it.

Gear for adventure travelers that will make your trips easier.

Phone apps that offer medical advice fast, plus links to find the closest doctor or emergency room, alert medics you're have an emergency and can't talk, whether close to home or in a foreign country.

Easily purify drinking water with the Freedom, which is so small it fits in your pocket or backpack. Kills bacteria from stream water and faucets in cities where locals drink bottled water.

Cheap international phone calls - $1.99 for 15 minutes - with this easy to use iPhone app.

The latest stylish outdoor apparel with high tech touches. Jackets, gloves you can use with smart phones, merino wool hiking socks and more.

A roomy backpack with theftproof features to keep light-fingered thieves at bay.

Here are several apps for the iPhone and iPad that I've found very handy during my adventures (and ordinary) travels. Others tell me these Android apps are great for adventure (and all) travelers, too. Some are free, while others are reasonably priced. A few offer the basic app for free, but charge for more detailed versions.

Download free app for free offline maps. Maps remain interactive even when you're offline. Plot your travels on thousands of interactive maps covering everything from wilderness area to cities and countries around the globe.

Here's a selection of adventure travel gifts for yourself, or your favorite adventuresome traveler. The choices rang from inexpensive pens that write underwater and in extreme cold; to mid-priced gifts like fleece jackets and heated gloves, to once-in-a-lifetime gifts, such as heli-skiing, bull-riding school, biking from Paris to London or...

This portable speaker, which also charges your iPhone or iPod while you listen to music, has a robust sound.

Adventure Travel Gifts - Are you looking for entertaining or useful gifts for your friends who enjoy adventure travel? Here's an array of gifts, that range from $5 to $50, which adventure travelers will want to take along on their next vacation.

Mountain climber translates lessons learned climbing into self-help book for personal and professional lives.

Travel junkies visit Magellan’s often to see what’s new in gear, accessories, clothing and supplies.

National Geographic has a series of rugged adventure maps for adventure travelers. Don't look for museums and restaurants in these maps. In this series you'll find information and maps of national parks and preserves where you can hike or mountain bike, popular diving or fishing spots, and other great adventure locations, plus insights from...

You can turn a favorite adventure travel photo into a work of art and hang it on a wall. Just upload a photo to this online service and the company's team of artists will use the photo to create a personalize artwork.

Review of hands-free underwater dive mask with built-in camera. With this mask, scuba divers and people who go snorkeling can bring home great underwater photos and videos.

If you're into active adventure travel, whether it's hiking. biking, climbing, skiing, surfing or snowboarding, this interactive emergency identification wristband will help first responders get your medical data fast if there's an emergency. The XTREME SPORTS ID lightweight, durable wristband has the medical symbol emergency responders are trained to look for on medical alert bracelets.

You can get maps routing your upcoming travel, personalized travel guides, GPS units and a lot more on Rand McNally’s website.

Lonely Planet travel books include guidebooks for destinations worldwide, language guides, digital guides, audio guides, and travel books filled with advice, photography and personal travel stories.

Review of the latest generation Zanier Heat-GX heated gloves, which have an adjustable, integrated heating system that will keep your fingers warm for a full ski day.

No need to fight the crowds on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, because many online retailers are offering great deals on gifts adventure travelers will love. You can score big discounts and free shipping on many items Turkey Day through Cyber Monday.

If you're looking for an inexpensive waterproof camera case to protect your digital camera, we found the DiCAPac Alpha case worked well, while snorkeling and river rafting. Read the review.

The Pacsafe Metrosafe 200 is, quite simply, the best travel purse I've used during my years of exploring the world. The anti-theft features give me a sense of security on busy city streets. The bag's inner pockets keep my passport, credit cards and iPhone secure, but I can quickly reach everything else I've packed into various pockets.

Wonder Rotunda, a virtual educational theme park, is a fun, easy way to explore the world with your kids. And, it’s just as easy for a child ages 7- 12 to explore this make-believe world by him/herself.

Eddie Bauer's First Ascent line has the versatile, award-wining Point Success jacket, great over a base layer, but can be slid in as a middle layer on cold days.

The Camelbak Better Bottle is BPA-free and has the Camelbak patented Big Bite Valve, When the bite valve is up, you just bite slightly and sip it as if you were drinking from a straw. No need to tip it to drink and it’s spill-proof. You can unscrew the top and it’s wide enough to add ice.

Kuru's Chicane light hiking shoes are as comfortable as bedroom slippers, and collapsible so you can easily store them in a backpack. No matter how hard I tried to mess them up by kicking wet, grungy tennis balls for my dog while in muddy woods and on trails, I couldn't.

TravelRest has literally stretched the concept of an inflatable travel pillow, with its patented ergonomic shape. We found the uniquely shaped TravelRest travel pillow much more comfortable than the comparably priced, conventional pillows we've used during long airline flights and car trips.

Would you like to turn those digital images of your adventures into personalized travel postcards? It's easy to do at HazelMail, where you can add addresses and postage online, then print them out and toss them in the mail, whether traveling or at home.

Create permanent memories in a personalized photo album with SmileBooks.

Tired of pulling your laptop and other electronic gear out of your carry-on bag or backpack? TSA won’t make you take your laptop out of these checkpoint friendly bags and backpacks.

If you want to keep anything from your passport and camera to huge backpacks safe, Pacsafe has the anti-theft travel gear for you.

Ultimate Adventures - a Rough Guide to Adventure Travel - is a "must get" guidebook for adventurous travelers seeking some of the coolest outdoor experiences on this planet. It's outlines "uncommon adventures for the common man" and tells you how to arrange to do them.

You'll enjoy reading the first-person adventures by seasoned travelers in "Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean - a Guide to 50 Extraordinary Adventures." The book, put out by the National Geographic Society, lists top-rated adventure travel trips for travelers 40 and older. If you're in that age group, there's a trip here for you.

ALCiS Pain Reliever offers temporary relief from sore muscles - and you won't smell like menthol or camphor.

Banjees Wrist Wallet are the ticket when you want to take a credit card, a room key and a bit cash with you, whether walking in strange city, sitting on the beach or jogging.

The revolutionary SPOT Satellite Messenger lets you keep in touch in touch with friends and family, alert 911 when there's an emergency, and act as a personal tracker -- whether you're in the back country, snowbound on a highway in a blizzard, adrift in a boat or caught in a dangerous situation.

Skiers have been using Smartwool socks for years (because the company was started by a former ski instructor) and now hikers, mountain bikers and other active sports enthusiasts are opting for them, too. The colorful lifestyle socks are hit in the city scene.

PacSafe's TravelSafe is a handy item if you're staying in a hotel room

PacSafe's theft-proof travel camera straps keep cameras and binoculars safe from 'slash-and-grab' thieves. The company has a neck strap for cameras and shoulder straps for laptops and other bags.

Check out this selection of holiday gifts for adventure travelers, which ranges from fat-wallet presents, such as a LuxuryLink.com gift certificate, to the mid-priced Solio Hybrid1000 charger for your electronic gadgets, and inexpensive stocking stuffers such as Smartwool's colorful Adrenaline socks.

When you are looking for useful, innovative or cool travel gear, supplies and accessories, these companies offer the best choices.

Travelers who want a quick way to record memories while on a trip will like the Globetrotter's LogBook.

Looking for a great Father's Day gift for your dad, husband or a favorite significant other? We've got you covered in choices from pricey to inexpensive.

PacSafe offers secure and light travel purses in several sizes ranging from the smaller citysafe 100 model to the spacious metrosafe 300 shoulder bag. The shoulder straps and purse bottoms are slashproof and clips attached to zippers keep thieves from sliding hands inside the purse.

Mountain Hardware's women's insulated stretch piste pants pass every test for skiers and snowboarders who want comfort, warmth and functionality.

The anti-theft features on the pacsafe Stashsafe 100 makes this hip pack great travel gear. It has wire-reinforced, slash-proof front and bottom panels, lockable zippers and several pockets to keep your stuff organized.

Adventure Travel guest author Richard Friedland has been traveling around the globe for decades. He is an enthusiastic hiker, fisherman, skier, diver and all-around outdoorsman. As a true gadget nut, he enjoys testing and writing gear reviews.

Are you looking for special gifts for your favorite adventure traveler and willing to spend up to $200? Here's a selection of gifts ranging roughly from $75 to $200, which adventuresome travelers (and you) will want to take along on the next vacation.

When your wallet is flush and you're looking for luxury adventure travel holiday gifts for a spouse or special friends, why not give them something truly outrageous. How about a watch with a GPS, a heli-ski run, a golf trip to China, a Burton Audex jacket with a sleeve panel to change iPod music or answer a cell phone, or a day driving a...

Ever have your goggles fog while skiing down a mogul run and you can no longer see the slope, or have them go white in a powder storm? Smith’s Turbo Fan Prodigy, Phenom and Knowledge OTG goggles are a blessing for people who love snowsports and sweat a lot, but even more so for people who wear glasses that constantly fog.

Use a digital camera to take pictures during your vacation and you'll always have instant memories in your photo album. What type of digital camera do you want?

The Suunto X9i is a multifunction GPS watch for hi-tech gadget lovers who are avid outdoorsmen, hikers and multi-sport enthusiasts who play in the wilderness. It interfaces with mapping software worldwide, shows your current speed and distance, has an altimeter and thermometer, plus lots more.

This tiny pen works just about anywhere, including hanging from the side of a cliff, underwater or in a snowstorm.

Bringing the right equipment or supplies on a trip can make the trip easier and a lot more pleasant.

Are you looking for special gifts to give your dad or special guy for Father's Day? Here's a selection of gifts that any man who enjoys adventure travel - or simply travel - will appreciate. These range from a small but effective power charger that doubles as a nightlight, to books about rock- and ice climbing to fast-drying, and a stain repellent travel shirts. If your man prefers to carry his …

A stable husband's middle-age crisis has resulted in an entertaining, colorful adventure travel book: The Lunatic Express. Think a bit about all of those headlines in recent years. Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Reflecting the book's title, author Carl Hoffman spent six months circumnavigating the globe on the world's worst conveyances.

The padded Canari G-Liner shorts, which you can wear under cargo pants or regular shorts, is a good choice for weekend warriors and people who don't bike often. Less expensive than most padded biking shorts, they can also be used horseback riding and motorcycle riding.

This uniquely shaped travel pillow is a real neck saver. For the first time, after waking up from a quick nap during a plane ride my neck wasn't sore from being stretched too far over the side of an inflatable pillow. This 'Complete Support Travel Pillow' is made of memory foam and covered with a soft velour. It comes with a waterproof travel case.

Marshall Corwin's "Extreme Survival - An Adventurer's Guide to the World's most Dangerous Places" is as potentially useful as it is scary....

Browse through this book and you'll see an exciting range of adrenalin raising adventures around the world. It's new and has lots of choices for extreme and more ordinary adventures in 2011.

SKINS Ski Compression Base Layers - SKINS Running Compression Base Layers

A TSA lock security can open and you can program with words instead of letters

Sandals with hidden space to hide room keys, credit card and money.

This company's crash pads fitted into tops and bottoms for bikers, skiers, snowboarders, horseback riders and more extreme sports help protect you.

This rechargeable battery that looks just like any other iPhone4 or iPhone 4s case can double your phone's battery life.