Ambassador Olivia Tati walks us through 5 tips for how to hit your travel bucket list goal.
Category: Tips & Tricks
How to Hike More Mindfully
Stay in the Present Many people hike to reduce stress, but that can be hard when your inner monologue runs rampant. This exercise helps you remain focused in the present. Incorporate these drills while you walk. Duration: 15 to 20 minutes per step 1. Turn your attention toward the action of walking. Feel your knees…
How To Mentally Prepare For A Backpacking Trip
Advice from Ambassador, Logan Marie of Her Oregon Life Scared to travel on new terrain? Afraid to try backpacking for the first time but have always wanted to? I’ve been there too, and still get nervous. Here are 5 tips on how to mentally prepare for your backpacking trip, whether it be your first or…
Heading To The Uintas? Check Out This Trail Report!
Trail: Highline Trail, High Uintas, UT Distance: 31 miles Submission: Brent Umphlett Difficulty: moderate Duration: 5 days Rating: 4/5 stars On September 20, 2018, I started a backpacking trip into the High Uintas Wilderness Area from the Highline trailhead, my first attempt at a solo backpacking trip. On day 1, I set up camp at…
5 of America’s Best Mountain Towns
There are so many great options in the United States to choose for your next adventure. So let’s narrow it down a bit and look to the mountains. Mountain towns are fun: enthusiastic outdoor scene, hidden gems, local breweries, and culture. Each town has a unique personality and once you figure out which one matches…
A Guide to Your First Trip to the Backcountry
If you’ve never tried backcountry camping, we’re here to get you stoked about it! So you love camping (but only in a car!) or perhaps you’re a pro at tent camping, but only at a site. Either way, we all agree that it’s hard to beat an evening spent swapping stories with friends around a…
7 Tips to Add Fun to Your Family Road Trip
Ah, the family road trip. A summer tradition and rite of passage for families across the nation. Audiobooks, music playlists, backseat squabbles, and calls of “Are we there yet?” and “I have to go to the bathroom” add to the mayhem (er, magic). Traveling by car offers SO many benefits—like being able to stop along…
Funniest Mishaps Experienced By Adventurers Across the Country
Ah, life on the trail and in the mountains. It’s beautiful, it’s challenging, it’s…whoops, not supposed to go that way!? If you love the outdoors, you’ve undoubtedly run into scenarios where your adventure hasn’t gone exactly as planned. You forget to bring an essential piece of gear, wildlife intervenes in unexpected ways, or the weather,…
New Zealand By Van (And Feet)
By now, I have a pretty good grasp on living out of different rigs. Before I moved into my VW Vanagon to explore the west coast’s climbing and skiing, I would rent Subaru Outbacks on work trips so that I could sleep in the back on weekends and see more of what Alaska’s coastlines and…
Keep Your Gear Like New: Cleaning, Repair, and Storage Tips
After a few days in the great outdoors, the last thing you want to do when you finally get home is tackle the task of cleaning your gear—we get it. But, as any outdoor enthusiast knows, gear is pricey stuff—and that’s if you buy it once. However, putting in just a little bit of time…