My family and many friends have spent most of their lifetime perfecting the art of camping. That means anything from hiking and backpacking overnights to car and tent camping, to small to midsize SUVs ...

Trail mix has to be one of my personal favorite snacks while backpacking. That said, you can’t live on it, especially when you’re hiking for miles every day. I’ll be honest — dinner is my favorite ...

Like many backpackers, hikers, trail runners, and so on, I often go on adventures searching for a certain stillness. It is quiet and nourishing. It is what some might call peace of mind, or happiness, ...

Backpacking is just like day hiking. Except instead of finishing the day by going home to a shower and a home-cooked meal, you camp alongside the trail, don’t shower, and eat someone’s best attempt at ...

A few years ago, I was on night two of (what was supposed to be) an 8-day solo backpacking trip on the Collegiate Peaks Loop in Colorado. I had set up camp near a high alpine lake, sheltered next to a ...

Backpacking tends to be associated with young people with few responsibilities. But more and more parents have been opting to take their children off on extended trips around the world in the past few ...

With each season the landscape changes. Whether it’s flowers blooming in the spring, or a light snowfall in the winter. So, it’s fun to hike trails in every season, but you need to adjust your gear ...

Go! Festival of Hiking is going to be bigger, better and safer this year. Two of the Saturday routes have been adapted. The ...