It was the night before my 5-day backpacking trip with five tough teenagers from East…
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How to Properly Put On a 40-Pound Backpack
By Brian Williams, Southern Gentleman, World Traveler and Hopeful Somebody Sawtooth Wilderness, Idaho …
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It’s A Tiny Bear Canister, For Tiny Bears
I have learned many things from my friend Lee: How to place gear on trad…
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You don’t have to clip that to the outside of your backpack
I was renting this guy a backpack and 3-person backpacking tent when I worked at…
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Buy the newest, lightest, shiniest gear today or you could die out there
There’s a single paragraph in Yvon Chouinard’s Let My People Go Surfing: The Education…
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Is this the best desert dayhike in America? Canyonlands’ Chesler Park Loop
I think the first time I heard anything about Chesler Park, I was being…
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Should I buy that new piece of ultralight gear, or just go to the bathroom first?
The average human poop event weighs between 7.3 and 9.3 ounces, according to an Iranian…
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