why you can trust treeline

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We recommend the best gear— regardless of whether we receive a commission. Your trust and our objectivity are the top priority.

Our writers are professional reviewers or athletes with bylines in the New York Times/ Wirecutter, Outside Magazine, Bicycling Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, and more. We maintain rigorous journalistic standards based on objectivity and trust.

If you return your gear, we get nothing. That means we have every incentive to obsessively research, test, and analyze reviews so that you keep and cherish your gear and we keep your trust.

Our recommendations are vetted. In addition to our own testing, we do the work of aggregating the findings of other outdoor media and hundreds of customer reviews.

We weed out fake online reviews or untrustworthy reviews and sources. When we reference what others think, we stick to objective sources.

We don't accept guest posts, hire influencers or employees for the gear we review. Our recommendations are objective.