Gear Abby: An Outdoor Advice Column For Your Ears
An outdoor journalist, enthusiast, and educator answers questions about our complicated relationships with outdoor people, places, products, and pastimes.
Rock Fight, LLC
Show overview
Gear Abby: An Outdoor Advice Column For Your Ears launched in 2025 and has put out 58 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode in the time since. That works out to roughly 40 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 41 min and 48 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. Roughly 55% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Sports show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 39 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Rock Fight, LLC.
From the publisher
Gear Abby: Outdoor Advice Without the BS! Sick of outdoor podcasts that gate keep, worship influencer gear lists, or make you feel like you don’t belong? Yeah, we do too. That’s why Gear Abby exists. With Gear Abby you won't get an ounce of shame or gear snobbery. It's just unfiltered advice, honest conversations, and the occasional 'WTF' moment in the wild. Hosted by outdoor journalist and adventure junkie Shawnté Salabert, this show answers the real questions you’re too embarrassed to ask out loud. From weird gear issues and trip prep anxiety to calling out elitist nonsense in outdoor culture. Shawnté approaches your burning outdoor questions with that sort of loving big sister vibe. And if Shawnté doesn’t have the answer? She’ll drag in someone who does. Whether you hike, paddle, run, or just want to feel less weird in REI - Gear Abby’s your new outdoor bestie. Gear Abby. Because there are no dumb questions. Just smart advice.