There’s nothing like rainy season in Northern California. Despite the drought that’s hovered over us for the last several years, El Niño has come this winter wi...
The email subject line read: “Summer Scrambling Sessions—Invitation to Edit.” The message was empty except for the attached Google Doc. Usually in my line of wo...
For us, the outdoors is not only our favorite date spot, it’s also our favorite place to kiss—but not all outdoor kisses are equal. We’ve compiled a short field...
Don’t get us wrong, hiking in the winter can be absolutely stunning, but there’s something about hiking in the cool breezes and warm sunshine that only spring c...
Only when his kayak flipped in the rapids did Jeff Marion—then a teenaged Eagle Scout—realize that wearing boots had been a bad idea. The spray skirt came off b...
Rob McCann and Jared Dinsmore are sitting by a smoldering fire outside a hunting cabin in rural Maine. The air is cold, and the fire pit is framed by ferns and ...
We’ve got a handful of hikers who have kindly volunteered to carry Paul’s Boots along parts of the Appalachian Trail, all going different directions and distanc...
When Sarah Menzies first started making outdoor-related films, it had never even occurred to her that there was an outdoor industry.
She’d grown up exploring...
Ideally, I would have loved to have tested this pack on a long trek like the Sierra High Route, hauling multiple days’ worth of food and gear, bopping from rock...
Few things are more rewarding than heading into the backcountry, conquering a peak and then getting great turns all the way down. There are many names and vari...
Like the natural world, the gear we use follows a cycle. Backpacking in the ’90s was all about having equipment that would stand up to the abuse offered up by g...
Summer—in all its campfiring, lake-jumping, ice cream-eating glory—is just around the corner. Campsite reservation systems across the U.S. have opened for busin...
