Based in Anchorage, Alaska Matt and Agnes Hage work together to produce high caliber active lifestyle and adventure travel photography for outdoor brands worldwide. While they shoot plenty of work in the Chugach Mountains out their back door, they have been known to haul an obscene amount of gear to far away places. HagePhoto has been recognized for outstanding work by ASMP and Photo District News. They are currently represented by Aurora Photos, Novus Select and sponsored by Ninkasi Brewing Co. REI member since 1993.
It was a crisp October day when we found out that we were going to be parents. We had just wrapped up a photo shoot in the Sierra Nevada and parked our Airstrea...
Do you ever wish that your daypack carried as well as your full-size pack? So many small packs (less than 25 liters) are little more than glorified rucksacks: a...
As I pulled CamelBak’s new hydration daypack out of the box, my first impression was “Wow, this thing is hefty.” The Franconia LR 24 is both a daypack and a hyd...
Across the valley, two brightly colored mountain bikers sit poised on a ridgeline above a twisting section of singletrack. Thanks to the slender rectangle of te...
Ideally, I would have loved to have tested this pack on a long trek like the Sierra High Route, hauling multiple days’ worth of food and gear, bopping from rock...
Like the natural world, the gear we use follows a cycle. Backpacking in the ’90s was all about having equipment that would stand up to the abuse offered up by g...
Our first trek in New Zealand literally ended in disaster. We noticed the clouds building as we started to hike the popular Abel Tasman Coast Track, but nothing...
The summer backpacking season in Southcentral Alaska is akin to an on-again, off-again relationship. Just earlier this month we experienced weeks of cold, rainy...
We live in Alaska where there are no reptiles. Plenty of megafauna but not one snake. Thankfully there’s something primordial embedded in our DNA that kicks in ...
Our production work requires us to carry a lot more technical equipment into the backcountry than the average outdoor enthusiast. This makes any space in our ba...
Even though fat-tire snow bikes have become increasingly popular in Alaska, their cartoonish proportions still garner quizzical looks from the locals.
The si...
Last spring we found ourselves on assignment in northern Iceland to shoot a two-week backcountry skiing road trip around the island’s famed Tröllaskagi, or Trol...
