I teach three to five Backpacking 101 seminars every year. The first one that I conducted I planned on doing an hour-long seminar with the first 45 minutes I’d talk and then hold a 15-minute Q&A at ...

You live in Idaho. If you never have gone backpacking, you’ve gotta try it. A lot of people shy away from it because they think you have to go on a 100-mile Bataan Death March. You don’t, especially ...

Whether you plan to explore the Grand Canyon, hike the Himalayas or stay closer to home, wandering our beautiful Badlands, developing the basics of backpacking is the first step you should take to ...

While the pandemic years were trying, at best, they gave us time to recognize, reevaluate and, in some instances, readjust the undesirable patterns we might have fallen into. One benefit to our ...

I did not grow up in an outdoorsy family. We spent the occasional summer road-tripping through Colorado, sure, but I was just as likely to spend an entire school break playing Super Nintendo in my ...

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New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. Backpacking is ...