Camping

As a person who loves solo backpacking, I’m always on the prowl for what single-person (1P) backpacking tent has the best bang-for-its-buck. I came across the UL Obsidian 1P by…

If you’re like me, backpacking is the ultimate way to experience the wilderness. You get to leave behind the stress of your job and everyday life and step into a…

Are you looking for a way to improve your storytelling skills? Or maybe you’re itching to spook some youngsters? Classic Campfire Stories: Forty Spooky Tales by William W. Forgey will help you…

Finding free camping in the US is difficult if you don’t know where to look. As a general rule, the further East you go, the more difficult finding free campsites…

Choosing a high quality women’s sleeping bag presents a daunting task, especially as a beginner backpacker and hiker. It’s also an investment, since a durable and lightweight sleeping bag will…

REI’s women’s specific sleeping bag, the Magma 17 meets all of my standards for an excellent women’s backpacking sleeping bag: ✓ Lightweight ✓ Down insulated ✓ Rated to 17 degrees…

Looking for the ultimate adventure mobile, we got a Toyota 4runner knowing that we’d do a decent amount of long road trips where we’d sleep in the back. The trunk,…

This summer we road tripped to Breckenridge, Colorado, where we spent 4 days soaking in all the adventure we could.

As I mentioned in my last post, “What is a Microadventure?”, I am trying to get out on an adventure at least once every month this year. January is a difficult…

Everyone tried to tell me.

Hiking in White Mountain National Park was hard. SO SUPER HARD. I would only be able to do, like, 8 miles a day.

“That’s ridiculous,” I thought, “I can walk 20+ miles a day; certainly 13-16 miles a day in the Whites would be cake.”