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Backpacking

Solo Stove Bonfire – Efficient Wood Burning Fire Pit Launched on Kickstarter

If you're not already familiar with Solo Stove, they became well known for the popular efficient, eco-wood burning, Solo Stove Campfire for…

Three Ways to Start a Fire Without a Lighter or a Match

If there’s one thing that’s essential to the atmosphere of camping, it’s a good, sustainable campfire. It keeps you warm,…

Sawyer Water Filter Review – Testing Out the Sawyer Squeeze Water Filter

A short backpacking excursion to Bear Lake in Emigrant Wilderness afforded my buddy Wade and I a chance to properly do…

Best Sleeping Pad for Backpacking and a Good Night’s Rest

If you’re like me, you’ve been sleeping in tents for years without so much as a thought to how comfortable…

Mountain Scrambling Guide

Maybe you’ve been on hiking trip and glanced up at a scree slope that leads to a mountain top and…

Luci Lantern Review – Solar LED Lantern Tested

Remember the days when providing enough light at night in the undeveloped outdoors meant using a fuel-based, mantle camping lantern?…

What’s the Best Backpacking Backpack?

Aside from your boots, you probably won’t find a more important factor of your hiking experience than your backpack. Choosing…

Best Trekking Poles for Backpacking

If you’re a strong hiker who is just going out for a day hike, you may or may not choose…

Thru Hiking

In 2005 I found myself lacing my boots, shouldering my pack, and heading out to Smoky Mountain National Park to…

How to Treat a Snakebite

A seven-mile day hike in Northern California found myself and a fellow hiker casually meandering along a trail that wove through…

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