Camping is one of the best ways to spend quality time with your friends in the great outdoors. There are many types of tents on the market today, ranging from ultra-light backpacking tents to large multi-room cabin style tents.
What is it like to hike up high when it's really cold? And what's needed to make it work? In the context of a severely cold weather forecast, I could entice no fellow GO members to join me this past weekend to see and feel the answers first hand on Mt. Eisenhower, a Presidential peak in New Hampshire requiring an hour or more of above-timberline time to hike.
Our July 2017 Member of the Month!
It's a challenge to find a group of tropical islands that's both easy to access and ideal for sea kayaking - and even rarer to discover one that hasn't succumbed to commercialism and crowds.
Our January member of the month!
Explore the soulful ruins within Angkor Wat by mountain bike - a UN World Heritage site with more than 100 ruins that lie across the 150 square mile preserve.
Our synchronous flow on the trail makes me as happy as the kicking/gliding we do. We'll be doing this together, I hope, until we are 80.
Frigid fingers are unpleasant. Numb wooden hands are far worse, and potentially dangerous in the chilly backcountry. Prevent the fingertip blues this season and keep your dexterity, enjoyment, and digits intact with these handy tips.
Twenty-nine cyclists have signed on for this tour through the Vermont countryside. The setting is almost impossibly idyllic, from the grazing sheep in Grafton where the tour begins, to the signs advertising sweet corn and maple syrup along the long, gradual ascent to Killington, to the perfectly manicured village green in Woodstock.
You are stranded, injured and alone. Night is falling, conditions are deteriorating, and there is no way out until the next day. Or longer. Are you equipped to survive? Your chances will be vastly improved if you carry these essential items and know how to use them.
Our November Member of the Month!
There are signs that at least a handful of Caribbean destinations - favorite subtropical stomping grounds for spring-breakers, straight couples and "traditional" families - are changing their tunes.
Here are some of our favorite camping locations that are reasonably close to one of a dozen U.S. metropolitan centers, close enough that it takes just one tank or less of fuel to get there and back.
These six American rivers will spill, thrill and chill you!
Sure, headlamps make you look like some sort of cyclopean beam brain. But it's a small price to pay for the convenience of hands free lighting, whether in camp, on the trail, or in the depths of your closet! The possibilities can be blinding so here are some tips.
