The world's most famous field editor serves up his experiences as camp chef.
It is a beautiful thing to be an outdoor enthusiast in the United States. Or perhaps not. The Smoky Mountains should be renamed the Smogy Mountains!
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eBay’s tagline is "The World’s Online Marketplace," and it is one of the few online vendors that survived the shakedown of the roaring ‘90’s. Since many of our members need good deals on quality gear, I wanted to find out if outdoor gear could be found on the mother of all online auction houses. More importantly, I needed to know if it was worth the effort.
In the surrounding wilderness are 12 cabins owned by the 10th Mountain Division Hut Association, as well as four privately operated shelters. Linked by 300 miles [480 kilometers] of trail, these retreats compose the 10th Mountain system, one of the West’s oldest and best-known hut networks.
The park is expanding, the future seems bright, and mosquito season is over. It’s the perfect time for a weeklong float.
Has this ever happened to you? A deep sense of dread slowly builds in the back of your mind. Soon you will be participating on a one week backpacking trip, and you still hadn't found a pair of boots that fit. You toss and turn at night imagining the inevitable blisters that would surely riddle your miserable feet by month's end. Through the 20+ years that I have been backpacking, I have rarely owned a pair of boots that truly fit my feet. And I’m finding that as I’m getting older, it’s becoming even harder to find that perfect fit!
What a great weekend we had hiking the Cone and Welsh –Dickey mountains; and learning all aspects of trip leading from trip selection, to packing, to route finding on blazeless and trailless terrain in bad weather, emergency prevention and responding rapidly to a crisis.
With close to 300 indoor climbing gyms now dotting the country, a challenging wall is probably as close as your town's warehouse district. You can improve your endurance, hand strength, and agility with the three routines outlined below, recommended by Chris Bloch, a four-time X Games medalist and former national speed-climbing champion. Commitment is the first hurdle.
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If you have enough rope, time and patience, you can strap a touring canoe to just about any vehicle and get it from place to place. But the best way to transport a canoe safely is with some sort of dependable rack system.
As with general camp duties, kitchen duties should be passed around as part of a rotating schedule.
The little-known stretch of the Rio Grande just downriver from Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas, showcases the riverine glories of the desert Southwest: twisting slot canyons, fortresslike bluffs, hot springs, and sporty rapids. Better still, expeditioners here can often paddle for a week to ten days without encountering another party.
