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Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. Editor’s Note: Patricia “Blackpacker” Cameron is the founder of Blackpackers, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to the outdoors, and Backpacker’s 2022 Pacific

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Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. We all remember the first time we felt truly free in the outdoors.  For self defense expert Nicole Snell, it was

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. Sheriff’s deputies found an Appalachian Trail hiker’s body in a tent near Damascus, Virginia on Sunday, law enforcement has confirmed. Washington

The elegant spiral of a fiddleneck flower. Shooting handheld allowed me to refine the framing of the flower to my liking from an angle I wouldn’t have been able to achieve easily on a tripod. Single frame capture. Exposure: 1/800 sec., ƒ/20, ISO 2000. Nikon’s expanding lens collection for its mirrorless Z system now includes

No matter who you talk to in overlanding, everybody seems to have a list of what you need to bring. But what don’t you need to bring? Payload matters, and you’re probably already over the GVWR of your vehicle if you have it outfitted for overland travel. So what can you cut out of your

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For wildlife photographers, super-telephoto lenses are the key to capturing close-up, engaging compositions of subjects safely and respectfully. The advantages of super-tele primes compared to zooms are generally better image quality and constant maximum apertures, but that performance comes at a price, not only in dollars but also in size and weight. The options for super-tele

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Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. Overnight visitors to California’s Desolation Wilderness will need to carry bear canisters under a new Forest Service policy that comes into

Don’t just take a picture, make a picture. Take charge of the settings on your camera so your images turn out the way you envision them. Don’t let the camera make decisions for you. While the “P” on your camera dial, which stands for Program Mode, often provides a perfect exposure, it doesn’t know that

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The Ramsey Cascades Trail is one of the best hikes in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, featuring the park’s largest waterfall and the chance to explore an old-growth forest. Located on the northeastern side of the park, Ramsey Cascades remains off the beaten path and offers a great reprieve from the crowds found in many

Congratulations to Marti Phillips for winning the recent Spring In Bloom Assignment with the image, “Springtime, Hyde Park.” See more of Phillips’ photography at martiphillips.smugmug.com. View the winning image and a selection of submissions below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots!

Home » Packs » How to Choose the Perfect Backpacking Pack for Your Adventures Finding the best pack for your needs can be overwhelming, so Osprey is here to offer some insight into how to find the best pack for you. Since 1974, Osprey has designed highly customizable packs to meet the needs of hikers

Photo By Mattias Hammar “This is the first macro shot that I was really happy with,” photographer Mattias Hammar of Gothenburg, Sweden, confides. “A blue damselfly defending the forest. The photo was taken beside a forest path close to a lake. When I passed, I saw 20 to 30 damsels buzzing in an area covered