PHOTOS DENIS PICCOLO
THE PILL OUTDOOR TESTS Our Outdoor Guide would like to be a tool for consumers and buyers who can, through our tests, have new and detailed information about new products.
The testers we have carefully selected boast an important and diverse background in various outdoor aspects: former athletes, coaches, guides, influencers, buyers and industry insiders. All of them, in a different way, represent each one of us, which is why we looked for testers who could give us totally different feedbacks. Carry out these tests has not been easy this year. We had the help of many testers, yes, but their judgment, albeit authoritative, is not enough to review a product, especially in respect of those who, in the research&development department of a company, designed
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and developed that same product. A product that, after all, may not be suitable for the single person who tests it and who may not even fully appreciate its value. So we did more, we sent digital Google Forms to some of the major outdoor stores and to the buyers that distribute the magazine, asking them to fill out a test for each product they knew deeply or had recently tested. Above all expectations, the involvement in this project has been very positive and the responses and feedback arrived in our inbox were truly hundreds. The resulting feedback gave life to the reviews and evaluations that you will read on the following pages.
