Resources

For Gears:

Adventure Guide in southwestern Ontario, Canada

Sail

Mountain Warehouse - US site, useless for online shopping from Canada.  Mountain Warehouse operates like outlet stores and has lots of stuff in their own brand.  Some of their stuff are much cheaper than the well-known brand names.

Columbia - we shop at Columbia but other clothings stores are probably similar like North Face.

Osprey - packs

Merrell - footwear

Black Diamond - trekking poles and headlamps

Energizer - we bought a cheap headlight which is surprising bright, will have to see about the battery life

Icebreaker - very expensive, will have to see whether it is worth it.

For Travel:

Rome 2 Rio - put in your place of origin and your destination and it will give you most of the options available.

Madrid to St Jean Pied de Port - this is our plan to get to St Jean Pied de Port.

Reviews:

Outdoor Gear Lab - review of everything

Spanish consumer reviews - for albergues; in Spanish but instant translation to Spanish if you use Google Chrome, maybe other browsers too.