Buying gifts for outdoor people is deceptively hard. Go too technical and you're guessing at sizes, preferences, and whether they already own three of them. Go too generic and you've bought another water bottle that lives in the back of a cabinet. So we did the narrowing for you.

Instead of designing in a vacuum, Teva handed early prototypes to TBA ultrarunners Erin Ton and Mike Wardian and let them beat the shoe up on real, technical terrain — sharp switchbacks, rocky scrambles, the kind of ground that exposes a bad shoe fast. Every round of feedback shaped the next version, all the way through to what's landing on shelves this fall.

The original Storm line has been a go-to for climbers, hikers, and campers for years thanks to its rugged, fully waterproof build. The Storm+ carries that reputation forward and pushes the output further — nearly double the lumens of the outgoing Storm 450 — while switching to USB-C for faster, more universal charging.