This is a guest post from Joe Amato. An avid traveler and outdoorsman, Joe lives to explore and discover the beauty of the world in all its forms. “Did you know there are mountains and waterfalls only two hours from here?” my friend Kyle asked. “Bullcrap,” I scoffed, seeing as how we live in New Orleans. […]
Crushing. That’s the best adjective to describe the heat in Mississippi in September. At least that’s how it felt inside of my tent on a steamy Friday evening, as I slapped at mosquitos and focused my mind on conjuring the breeze. It was too warm to be encased in a sleeping bag, so instead I […]
If you’re a lover of good, crisp writing, spellbinding adventure and the great outdoors, then there’s little not to like about Alex Hutchinson’s badass piece in the New York Times on canoeing in the Yukon. The first-person narrative chronicles Hutchinson’s ten-day mission down the Snake River in the Peel Watershed. The river drops over 4,000 […]
You don’t have to scour too hard to find a sublime camping spot on the outskirts of Seattle. The city lies within a few hours of a slew of top-tier camping locales, such as Mount Rainier, the San Juan Islands and the Lower Cascades. After visiting for a conference last week, I borrowed a car […]
When I spoke on the phone to Oregon resident and outdoors aficionado Anne Guthrie, she was hurtling through northeast Oregon on her way to the tiny town of Enterprise. There, she intended to explore the Eagle Cap Wilderness and Hell’s Canyon, America’s deepest river gorge. It was a typical weekend for Guthrie, a 27-year-old Oregon […]
Who could build the better sleep shelter in the middle of the woods: a former Boy Scout or a current Boy Scout? National Geographic Channel will answer this question during its new fall lineup of shows. Are You Tougher than a Boy Scout?, which debuts in the fall, puts current Scouts and formers Scouts in […]
by Liz Childers As a big fan of contemporary folk music, Mumford & Sons, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes tend to be at the top of my iTunes “Top 25 Most Played.” Each band has a very different sound, but they all boast impressive lyrics, beautiful banjo pickin’, and […]
by Daniel Lawton I think that this is the most uncomfortable I have ever been, I thought to myself. I knew it wasn’t true, but that didn’t make me feel any better. I was lying on a crude sleeping pad on Maya Beach, an uninhabited island in Southern Thailand. For those Leonardo DiCaprio fans out […]
by Dan Lawton “I just moved to Thailand last week and one of my major packing dilemmas was whether or not to haul my tent with me. In the end, despite the extra ballast, I decided to take it, knowing that I’d regret it if I didn’t. Why?For one, camping abroad is one of the […]
