Reconnaissance #32

Every week, The Listening Post delivers a curated roundup of the past weeks best links. Here's this week's Reconnaissance:

> Breaking Ice on the Great Lakes - Gear Patrol
> The Suitcase Guide to New York - Suitcase
> Logging in British Columbia 1900-1930 - Retronaut
> The cult of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale - First We Feast
> How the iPhone is Changing Videography - Premium Beat

The Dutch Harbour Watch Collection by Filson

Filson has done it again. By partnering up with Detroit's own Shinola they have delivered a handsome new lineup of timepieces inspired by the groundbreaking dive watches of the 1950s. The Dutch Harbor Watch collection brings functionality and dependability to places where time is a matter of life and death. The new line of tool watches are water resistant up to 990 feet, feature a unidirectional bezel for precise timing, and are available with leather, nylon zulu and stainless steel bands, for a personal, comfortable feel.

Crary - Making the Ultimate American Boot

At the tender age of just 13, Bill Crary started working in his father’s boot factory. But this wasn't just any boot factory. It was the legendary Danner Boots factory. Over the next 18 years he learned everything there was to know about making quality boots. In 1978, Bill started his own custom boot making business and for the last 38 years he and his family have been hand-crafting bespoke footwear for disabled veterans, rock stars, professional athletes and anyone with a need for custom footwear.  Its always been Bill’s lifelong dream to bring this same quality directly to mainline consumers and now, with the help of his family, business partners and with support from the Kickstarter community, Bill’s dream is finally becoming a reality.

Morning Routines: Rob Evans from the With Love Project

As part of the regular Morning Routines feature, I've been talking to a different industry expert, adventurer, pioneer or influencer about how their morning sets them up for the day ahead. For our fifth instalment I spoke to Photographer and co-curator of the With Love Project, Rob Evans.

NASA's Visions of the Future Posters

NASA recently unveiled a new collection of retro style travel posters to coincide with a $19 billion budget request to fund a manned mission to Mars. The posters were designed at NASA's famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory and depict exotic and far-flung locations like Titan and Ceres, worlds who's conditions make manned exploration virtually impossible, for now.

Reconnaissance #31

Every week, The Listening Post delivers a curated roundup of the past weeks best links. Here's this week's Reconnaissance:

> Inside Club Monaco's Covent Garden Store - Buckets & Spades
> Land Rover Series III Adventure Rig - Silodrome

> In conversation with A Continuous Lean's Michael Williams - Classfare

> Q&A: Sandqvist Bags Founder Anton Sandqvist - The Field

> Designing and Dressing The Revenant  - LA Times

Racing the Iditarod: The Last Great Race on Earth

This year on March 5th, around 100 sled dog teams will take part in the last great race on earth. A thousand miles of Alaskan wilderness lays between the start line in Anchorange and the end point on the frozen Bering Strait. The teams will face whiteout conditions, subzero temperatures, a windchill factor of up to -100°C and some of the roughest terrain in the world. This is the Iditarod.