We have hundreds of reviewers test thousands of products to select our Editor’s Choice nominees. Which, of course, warrants even more testing. For our Hike and Camp category, this means one last trip into the backcountry to help pick our winners. For this season’s expeditions聽翱耻迟蝉颈诲别听staff and some of our top writers took to the San Mateo Mountains in northern New Mexico with . 聽Although it was supposed to be a summer testing trip, Mount Taylor, which the Navajo also sometimes refer to as Turquoise Mountain, threw us some curveballs, with snow, high winds, and well-below-freezing nights. Needless to say, conditions were ideal for separating the wheat from the chaff鈥攊f a little colder than desired.聽
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