HIKING & CAMPING

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. Q: I know you’re big and strong and all that, but what all’s going on upstairs? Don’t take this the wrong way,

When I decided to clean out my gear closet this spring, I discovered a secret. A big one—one that all those pro-exercise doctors and health agencies aren’t telling us: Hiking isn’t a miracle remedy. It’s a potentially lethal gateway drug.  Here’s how it goes. First, you think it might be nice to walk up a

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. You swear this is going to be the trip: You’re going to plan a gourmet menu and savor it under the

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Sitting on the shores of glacier-formed Payette Lake in the Cascade Mountains, McCall Idaho is one of my favorite mountain towns in the West. Between the gorgeous forested landscapes, four seasons of outdoor recreation, and the unpretentious vibe, there are endless things to do in McCall, Idaho and I’ve considered moving here more than once.

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Any situation where you need to build an emergency shelter in the wilderness is a scary thing. But take heart, says Shane Hobel, the founder of Mountain Scout Survival School in New York’s Hudson Valley. People around the world thrive in the wilderness by building shelters with whatever their environment offers. Your backcountry hardware store’s

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. If you want to go farther or faster on trails, simplify your backpacking experience, or just lighten your load for increased

From family-friendly jaunts to grueling summit pushes, your daypack is your constant companion, so choose it wisely. At 35 liters or less and all under three pounds, these rucksacks have the smart features and robust suspensions you need to adventure as far and as often as you please. Osprey and Ultimate Direction (Photo: Matthew Stacey)

Hiking isn’t just a hobby—it’s a lifestyle. Maggie Slepian tackles the hiking life—and all of the joys, problems, arguments, and weird quirks that go along with it—in her column. One of the most Instagram-centric outdoor destinations I’ve ever visited was Horseshoe Bend in Arizona. I was on an impromptu road trip with another backpacker, and we were

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Making restaurant-quality dehydrated food is incredibly difficult. There are limits to the types of foods you can dehydrate, especially when it comes to fat content. Sucking all of the water out of proteins does terrible things to texture. Seasoning a dehydrated food pouch so that it’s perfectly salted and acidified after it’s been reconstituted? You’re

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. A grizzly bear in Wyoming has a new home after state wildlife authorities relocated him to the greater Yellowstone area following

This image of a bear silhouetted in front of a waterfall captures what I felt witnessing the scene—the stillness of the bear against the rushing movement of the water. I remember the fixer smell I couldn’t get off my hands, seeing my image emerge on paper for the first time as it sat in the