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One of the things we wanted to do here at NecessaryCool.com when we founded it was give everyone a place to feel at home reading about really cool stuff knowing that they were hearing from other people just like them. People who are out there on the streets and trails living life, not people in a office writing what their sponsors tell them to write about. We love gear, but lets face it, some places out there are telling you what you should like based on who pays their bills. Us? Well if we don’t like the gear, we don’t feature them. Take for example Rethink Clothing one of our sponsors, we like their shirts and we wear them ourselves, otherwise we wouldn’t tell you we do. It’s just not our thing. What is our thing, is telling you how much we love the gear we do use, and letting you in on those wonderfully cool things we find out there in the world (Like the XSMG Super boat, dang I love that boat!).

Now on to the subject at hand, at our last meeting we all talked about how we needed to run a longer features that would really dive into the gear we love and use, first on the list was adventure gear and seeing as how I’ve been known to on occasion just vanish in search of a good adventure, it was decided I would start with the adventure gear I can’t live without. First up? Rock Climbing. I’ll be honest, I’m not a world class climber, but I do love a good cliff and don’t think I’ll ever find any feeling better then that of making it to the top of a climb you didn’t think you could complete.

Climbing Gear Part One

There’s a lot of great gear out there, however there are two brands for climbing gear I really prefer over the rest, I’m not saying they’re better then everything else out there, but out of all the gear I’ve owned and tried, these two have never let me down, prAna and Black Diamond are a staple of my gear collection, and here’s some of my favorites from them. (I should also say we’re not endorsed or sponsored by either of them)

Lets start with prAna…

prAna Chalk Bag

One thing I’ve learned is you need to take care of your hands, (duh) well in climbing you can use these wonderful little things called chalk bags. Chalk bags are really a Necessary tool for the climber, and to be honest it really doesn’t much matter what the brand is, I have a really nice Black Diamond bag, but when I was 11 my parents bought me a prAna bag at a climbing gym. I still have it, a little tan and black bag with the prAna logo

right in the middle. The bag itself is really straight forward, double stitched, with a insulated liner to keep your chalk in and the dirt out, and has a wide opening with a easy to open, easy to close drawstring, but what makes it stand out is that fact I’ve been using it for over 13 years. This bag IS the number one Necessary item in my climbing gear bag.

Packs:

Now before I get into all this gear, I gotta talk about gear bags, after all you’ll need something to haul all that gear around, I like these two myself.

Black Diamond Demon Pack

Features include, an easy to remove 20 mm aluminum stay & framesheet, padded hipbelt (which is important for those treks to your climbing spot, gear gets heavy), a tough cargo loop for your ice axe or trekking pole and it’s hydration compatible. For around $119 this is also a good value, it carries a ton of gear for it’s size and it’s tough and rugged enough to compete with packs in a higher price range. In my opinion this pack is perfect for climbing and my only real problem is it takes some creative thinking on your part to rig up gear on the outside of the pack. However, if you need to do that, you can and if you want a good value on a simple no frills you don’t need pack for your gear, this is my pick. Final Verdict? Very Cool. And for me Necessary. Read more »

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Want to know what Marvel books are hitting the shelves today? Well then we’ve got you taken care of.

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We’ve gone through the stacks to sort out the best on Blu-Ray this week, that way you won’t have too. Click the Read More tab to find out what disc’s made the cut…

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Want to know what Marvel books are hitting the shelves today? Well then we’ve got you taken care of. Read more »

We’ve gone through the stacks to sort out the best on Blu-Ray this week, that way you won’t have too. Click the Read More tab to find out what disc’s made the cut…

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We’ve gone through the stacks to sort out the best on Blu-Ray this week, that way you won’t have too. Click the Read More tab to find out what disc’s made the cut…

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We’ve gone through the stacks to sort out the best on Blu-Ray this week, that way you won’t have too.

#1-24 Season 7: 

TV’s hottest show, 24, was released just one day after the season ended. Leave it to the one show that leaves you breathless every year and breaks all the network rules, to be the one show that doesn’t make you wait till fall to grab it on Blu-Ray. This season is packed full of return characters and twists, making it one of the best ever. Oh, and did we tell you Jack may be dead?

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Other websites or magazines have their lists. We have ours. But only one list is Necessary. Presenting the next big thing from Necessary Cool, [The List].

With the release of Wolverine, Star Trek, Terminator and Transformers all out this summer, There’s no question that this is the summer of Sci-Fi. But what about TV? It has it’s fair share of great Sci-Fi action too, so what did we do? We rounded up our top five for your reading enjoyment.

(As a side note, this list only includes shows that are currently running.)

Coming in at #5 is Smallville.

This is what happens when you put the DCU in a blender with the TV show The OC. Sparks fly as a stylishly updated Clark Kent is well on his way to becoming Superman.

#4 Supernatural

For all you Buffy and Angels fans looking for your Demons/Vampires/Everything else creepy and weird fix. This show is for you. Supernatural follows two brothers walking in the world of Angels and Demons.

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