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…
While this blog does an alright job of conveying some of the emotions and struggles encountered during this objective, however, I would highly encourage you to check out the video at the bottom of this page does a great job of showing what it was really like. Thanks for taking the time to read this
Fun Fact #1: One of Buddha’s teeth is housed in a temple in the town of Kandy! Every year, Kandy hosts the “Festival of the Tooth” to honor Buddha. Fun Fact #2: Sri Lanka was the first country in the world to have a female Prime Minister. Adventure #1: Kandy, Sri Lanka Our first big…
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…
As soon as Steve proposed, I started planning. To clarify, not the wedding—that happened eventually, much later. At the time, all I knew was that I didn’t want to spend a month’s salary on a dress I’d wear once. I didn’t want to pick out flowers or place settings. I didn’t want to ask my…
I once heard Yvon Chouinard say in a documentary that “adventure is when everything goes wrong. That’s when the adventure starts.” It’s not that everything went wrong per se, but more so unplanned and unexpected, and that was the start of our adventure. A New Normal – And Not One I Wanted To Get Used To When…
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…
When it comes to picking out the perfect backpacking pack, we wan’t to make sure you have all the big questions answered. With SO many options out there, it can be hard to know what bag is going to go the distance with you. That’s why we’ve put together a guide to help you determine…
From Montana’s Livingston Range to the Lechuguilla Desert of southern Arizona, the U.S. region known as the Mountain West is brimming with top-caliber hiking destinations. Narrowing down a list of 10 standouts is no small feat, but we took a stab at it anyway, choosing from the eight states that make up the U.S. Census…
Gretchen Pardon was one month and more than 270 miles into her Appalachian Trail thru-hike when she realized she had to leave the trail. It was March 23, less than two weeks after the World Health Organization had officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, when she walked into the city of Hot Springs, NC expecting to…