All posts tagged: outdoor activities

How to Track Your Luggage (2026): AirTag, Pebblebee, CaseSafe

How to Track Your Luggage (2026): AirTag, Pebblebee, CaseSafe

This is really useful if you, like me, tend to swap out your Bluetooth trackers between items as you’re using them. If you’ve attached a Pebblebee Clip to your luggage, you can pop it out and put it in your pocket for when you grab dinner by yourself while you’re traveling. Pebblebee works with both Apple Find My and Google Find Hub. If you’re nervous about triggering the siren, you can also grab the Pebblebee Card 5 ($35), which is the same price and doesn’t have the siren. Tips and Tricks for Finding Your Luggage Photograph: Adrienne So I have been losing my luggage since I was four years old, getting sent on planes halfway around the world. Here are a few ways I’ve learned to keep track of my luggage (and how to deal with the disappointment when I inevitably don’t). Zip your tracker into an interior pocket. You don’t want to just place it loose in your belongings. Maybe it will slide into the middle of your clothes, where the Bluetooth signal will …

Best Electric Mountain Bikes (2026): Specialized, Cannondale, Salsa

Best Electric Mountain Bikes (2026): Specialized, Cannondale, Salsa

Electric mountain bikes are both a godsend and a curse if you like riding on trails. There’s an old saying that you have to “earn your turns”—that the dopamine-boosting swerves and leaps down a pump track just don’t feel as good if you aren’t shaky-legged and sweating from pedaling all the way up to the top. That is a lie. It feels wonderful either way. (Just follow the cries of rapidly descending “whoo-hoo!” downhill.) Sneering at e-MTBs keeps a lot of people from the sport who aren’t in the best physical shape, including former MTBers who may have gotten older or injured. Gatekeeping is never a good look. On the other hand, getting buzzed by a ton of e-mopeds in the shape of bikes on a backwoods trail is enough to make anyone murderous. Testing electric mountain bikes is one of my favorite things to do. That’s why I’ve collected some of our favorite rides to help get you outside and moving. Every electric mountain bike here has been personally tested on over 50 miles …