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Day hikes and backpacking trips don’t always go as planned and it pays to equip yourself with extra survival and emergency gear if you get lost or injured when hiking in a more remote area like a national park, national forest, or state park. On average, it takes 1 hour for search and rescue to arrive, for every quarter mile …

Winter hiking burns a lot more calories than hiking the rest of the year because your body has to work harder to stay warm in the cold; you have to wear more clothing layers and heavier insulated boots; you need to carry snowshoes and use crampons or microspikes for traction on icy trails, and you need to carry all of …

Here is a crampon bag hack I’ve been using for the past few years to protect the front mesh pocket of my winter pack from sharp crampon and microspike teeth. It requires the use of a simple poly bubble mailer (those white padded envelopes used for Amazon prime packages) that’s large enough to hold your crampons, trail crampons, or microspikes. …

What stealth camping actually is and why it’s practiced by thru-hikers and others on the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail isn’t always clear. In an attempt to better understand the motives behind why thru-hikers do what they do, to demystify what true stealth camping is, and how to do it right, here’s my take on the topic. What …