The Biden administration is moving toward restoring environmental protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, one of the world’s largest temperate rain forests. Former President Donald Trump opened about 9 million acres of the nearly 17-million acre forest to logging and construction. It’s not clear how much of the 9 million Read more
If you plan well, a day-hiking gear list for a full-day is hardly more than you need for a casual afternoon outing. If you have food, water, an extra layer, and reliable navigation, you’re going to be just fine.
The environmental legacy of coal mining in Appalachia is not pretty. Strip mining sheared mountaintops, polluted waterways, and left scars on the land. An estimated 1.5 million acres of land in seven states—Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee—covered by the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative (ARRI) remain barren. Read more
We’re two decades in to the great social media experiment, and it should come as no surprise to anyone that things aren’t going particularly well. Backpacking Instagram is no different. Here’s why.
Should you splurge or save on backpacking apparel? For many items, you can opt away from name brands for the same performance. These are our top swaps for saving money with your backpacking clothes this season.
Our gear writer has screwed up pretty much everything there is to screw up. That’s how you learn (and become a gear writer), right?
On Saturday, a crowd of ultraunners set out on the 100k Huanghe Shilin Mountain Marathon. Without warning, weather swept through the mountains. The competitors were dressed in thin shorts and t-shirts, and 21 runners died.
As climate change leaves its imprint nationwide, the National Park Service has embraced a harsh truth: not every forest, animal, or wetland can be saved. Joshua trees could disappear from their namesake Joshua Tree National Park in California by the end of this century. Destructive wildfires in the West open Read more
More than a year after Covid-19 disrupted hiking along the Appalachian Trail, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy has determined that the conditions it laid out for safe thru-hiking have been met. As a result, the ATC said it would resume its 2,000-Miler program and that it would again distribute 2021 backpack Read more
Boiled peanuts, BBQ, and blowdowns—this trail roundup highlights the best long-distance hiking trails the south has to offer.