Those uses range from high-performance outdoor apparel for sports like skiing, mountain climbing and kayaking, to sailing gear and soft luggage.

Though other portals offer shopping channels that prominently feature certain retailers, Yahoo instead offers categories of goods, like outdoor apparel or music.

It took Eddie Bauer, the outdoor apparel and gear supplier from the state of Washington, more than 70 years to open its first shop in Manhattan.

The Creation Cavern hosts designers of outdoor apparel, hunting, fishing and hiking goods, survival tools and the like.

The TRU-SPEC brand later expanded from core military apparel to public safety and law enforcement, as well as outdoor apparel.

So what do 99-year-old, Parisian-inspired windows have in common with a company whose outdoor apparel seems, on some corners, to be a mandatory uniform among young New Yorkers?

In 2004 VF bought Green Sport Monte Bianco, an Italian company that sold outdoor apparel under the Napapijri name.

E Map It's dusty and musty, but it boasts four floors of tents (set up to test out), as well as outdoor apparel, camping gear, backpacks and other outdoor accessories.

In 2009 RacingThePlanet launched an online retail store specializing in selling the outdoor apparel, equipment and nutritional products required for endurance racing.

Outdoor Research is an American outdoor apparel and gear company located in Seattle, Washington.