Backpacker

Every backpacking trip has that One Day. It might be the day you need to hike 20 miles to get to your next resupply, and the weather decides to sleet for nine hours straight. Or maybe your brain is short-circuiting as you stare in horror at the upcoming elevation profile. Maybe it’s a day you’ve been dreading, or perhaps your body just doesn’t feel like hiking that day. Whate...

Advocates for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments are vowing to take the Trump administration to court following reports that the president plans to shrink the two controversial Utah preserves by executive order on Monday.

I arrived in Kalispell, Montana, and needed a plan. Originally, I’d intended to go backpacking in Glacier National Park with my partner. However, due to a permit issue—read: I discovered we didn’t have one—we needed to find an alternative.

Luckily for us, a friendly local suggested we try a trail called Stahl Creek in the nearby

Life these days is increasingly busy, the news increasingly grim, and the climate changing faster than ever. For this and many other reasons I often find I have some of my best sleep in the backcountry, where I can’t doomscroll until 11 p.m. But to get that quality shut-eye, I’ve had to put some effort into optimizing my sleep system. Hence the tote box full of camp pillows i...

You probably have car insurance for the type of vehicle you drive. The same is true for travel insurance: It should cover the specific activities on your itinerary. If you’re traveling halfway across the world to enjoy a carefully planned outdoor experience—skiing Japan powder, climbing the Alps, rafting in Patagonia—you deserve to be present in the moment, not worrying about...