Seasoned backpackers can handle whatever the trail throws at them. These 8 expert backpacking skills will help you level up.

After moving to upstate New York a few years ago, hiking has become a major part of my life. While I love this activity, there’s one thing that’s a constant nuisance: breaking in new hiking boots.

The sun shone brightly above us and the red canyon walls shimmered below. Somewhere in between the blue sky and chalky dirt, we hiked along the West Rim Trail in Zion National Park. Soft, loamy dust ...

These packable meals will last for months and have way less sodium. This is where DIY dehydrated meals come in. By using a dehydrator, which costs about $40, cutting your food into thin slices, making ...

I did not grow up in an outdoorsy family. We spent the occasional summer road-tripping through Colorado, sure, but I was just as likely to spend an entire school break playing Super Nintendo in my ...

Spring snow is flittering outside my office window, and I am meticulously weighing gear, charting paths across topographical maps, and preparing for hiking the Colorado Trail this summer. Backpackers ...

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Participation in almost all forms of outdoor recreation and physical activities increased dramatically during the pandemic, but in some sports those gains have lasted, and one of the most profound ...

My wife Tina never got tired of waiting at the bottom of some long descent—or at least she never showed it. For the first several years we spent hiking together—back when a “thru-hike” was little more ...

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