HIKING & CAMPING

Keeping your hands warm during cold weather outdoor activities is the key to a fun snowy day. Heated gloves help keep frozen fingers at bay on those amazing powder days so you can keep gripping your ski poles until the very last run. I’ve had lots of rough cold days due to Raynaud’s Syndrome, where

With a modest investment in equipment and learning, you can capture the world in a totally new light. Become an Outdoor Photographer Member to access this Photography Gear Article, plus techniques, inspiration and equipment reviews from the pros! By entering your email, you agree to our privacy policy and to receive emails from Outdoor Photographer.

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Backpacking is serious business, except when it’s not. Chuckle along in our twice-monthly humor column. This one’s free—Outside+ members can read them all. Sign up today! Ho! Who is it I hear at the door of my cuben-fiber yurt? Enter stranger, seeker of knowledge!

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Contrary to what your non-hiking friends may think, going backpacking doesn’t mean you have to subsist on GORP. Hiking stoves have come a long way from their bulky, inefficient origins, and can boil water for tasty dehydrated meals in mere minutes or cook

Zoa’s new portable ski lift is the size of a VHS tape and can theoretically tow you 2,600 feet up a run. Do you like to run backcountry laps but don’t like skinning, shoeing, or post-holing back up the mountain between each one? Instead, pack the 10-pound Zoa PL1 — and 1,000 feet of included

There are only a few places in the world where you can hike from spectacular ocean beaches to glacier-capped mountains in a day. US hikers travel long distances to visit some: Norway’s fjords, New Zealand‘s dense bush. But why drop all your savings on a plane ticket when you can get the same experience in

It’s hard to destroy a post-summit high, but the mansplainer judging my footwear just about did it. I was happily sauntering down the pine-fringed trail from the top of Hunter Mountain, the second-highest peak in New York’s Catskills range at 4,406 feet, when the gearshamer appeared.  My hiking companion Maggie and I had just climbed

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Originally published on Outside Business Journal Most outdoor enthusiasts have heard of Leave No Trace, the ubiquitous guidelines for minimizing environmental impact on the trail. Now, a group of adventure activists is seeking to achieve that same level of awareness about justice and

Take the dive into winter camping and you’ll discover uncrowded trails, easily attainable campsites, and a snowy serenity you can only get in the fourth season. These rewards require a hard look at your gear to keep you warm and thriving, though. Here are our picks for a beginner winter camping setup. Ultrawarm Bag: Marmot

The NIKKOR Z 400mm f/2.8 TC VR S includes a built-in 1.4 x teleconverter. Nikon today unveiled the NIKKOR Z 400mm f/2.8 TC VR S telephoto prime, a key lens for wildlife and sports photographers. It’s the longest prime available yet for the Z system, though an 800mm is in development. The new lens includes

Thru-hiking is the ultimate backpacking adventure, taking athletes hundreds or thousands of miles. Popular thru-hikes like the Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail entice thousands of people to cross multiple states every year. With only backpacks and essentials, thru-hikers leave jobs and loved ones to walk through woods, over mountains and across deserts.  It’s not

Do you dream about hitting the trail for a long—really long—hike? In Ask a Thru-Hiker, record-setting long-distance hiker Liz “Snorkel” Thomas answers your burning questions about how to do it. This one’s free; sign up for Outside+ to read them all. Dear Snorkel, I’ve heard a lot of hikers talk about their trail families, or “tramilies.”

Home » Apparel » Puffy Shirt Review: Patagonia UltraAlpine Down Crew, as Light as a Layer Gets Patagonia’s UltraAlpine Down Crew doubles down on ultra-lightweight layering. But is the world ready for a puffy shirt? We tested it to find out. When Jerry Seinfeld donned (and lamented) his puffy shirt, he could not have imagined

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Contents Why Should I Learn to Use a Compass? Get to Know Your Compass Correcting for Declination What are the Different Types of Compasses? How to Find Your Location with a Compass How to Find Your Bearings With a Compass Using Your Smartphone

There’s no better way to learn and explore than to hike, and as we finally get out of lockdown (or wait for the day when we will), there’s nothing we want to do more than head straight for the global hiking hotspots we’ve been salivating over on Instagram. Sure we’ve got nice hiking here at