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Helen Galerakis just ran 800 miles in 17 days, 11 hours, and 3 minutes, setting the Fastest Known Time for women (supported) on the Arizona Trail. What’s even more impressive than that already impr...

This past June, I summited Mt. Whitney via the East Buttress 5.7 route with my friend. This ended up being by the far the hardest trip of my life……so far. Read more about this grueling but amazing ...

By Joe Coleman The Most Bang for Your Buck When it comes to Yosemite backpacking trips, few offer the same “bang for you buck” as the Yosemite Falls Loop. Whichever direction you intend to travel t...

Getting into Hiking There are forty eight 4000-footers in the White Mountains of NH, where I live, and the more aggressive (as I like to call it) personality types take it upon themselves to finish...

By Christopher Van Tilburg, MD We thought it high time to look at some big trends that are poised to impact wilderness medicine and safety. Here are five that may affect you: WFR standardizations...

By Hilaree Nelson Yes to Adventure! When one of the greatest women adventurers of the 21st century emails you asking for safety supplies in support of a ground-breaking, never-been-done-before skii...

My interest in deer hunting safety arose when a close friend of mine got injured in his arm last year during a hunting trip when he was checking to see if a deer he had shot was alive or not. The d...

Randy Propster of Backpacker's Get Out More Tour reviews the Mountain Series Hiker Medical Kit. You wouldn’t want to go out on trail or into the wilderness without a hiking essential like a first ...

By Buck Tilton A simple fact towers above all others when it comes to winter survival: if you aren’t prepared to survive an unexpected night outside in winter, you probably won’t. In bad conditions...