My Backpacking Gear Checklist
Learn how to pack for a 2-3 night backpacking trip with lightweight gear essentials like a tent, stove, and clothing. My backpacking checklist!
Backpacking
My best backpacking and hiking tips after 10-years exploring mountains, forests, and deserts around the world.
Backpacking & Hiking
From backpacking gear to hiking guides. Useful tips & advice for people who love the outdoors.
Recent Articles
Hiking Mount Whitney: California’s Highest Peak (Winter Climb)
The elevation is starting to take its toll. Carefully planting one foot in front of the other, climbing through snow with my ice axe, I push on to summit California’s highest mountain.
Hiking The Tre Cime Di Lavaredo Loop (Italian Dolomites)
Tre Cime di Lavaredo (Three Peaks) is a famously beautiful and pretty easy alpine day hiking loop in the Italian Dolomites that winds through jagged limestone mountains.
Hiking Carrauntoohil: Ireland’s Highest Mountain
While traveling through County Kerry I decided to climb 4 of Ireland’s biggest mountains in a single day, including Carrauntoohil, the highest one in the country. Here’s how!
Hiking Kerlingarfjöll Geothermal Area (Icelandic Highlands)
Deep within Iceland’s central highlands, Kerlingarfjöll is a group of small geothermically active and rust-colored mountains capped with snow. Here’s how to organize your own self-drive adventure.
How To Survive Cold Weather Like A Polar Explorer
It’s -16 degrees fahrenheit outside, and we’re pitching tents on a thick layer of hardened ice, preparing for a night of extreme cold weather conditions. Welcome to polar expedition training!
Boundary Waters Canoe Area: Paddling Into The Wild
If you’re looking to get away, unwind, and reconnect with nature, you really can’t beat a backcountry canoe trip into Minnesota’s pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Trekking Greenland’s Arctic Circle Trail (My Trip Report)
Standing on Greenland’s barren ice cap in silence, you’re hit with how remote this place is. Smiling, I hike the Arctic Circle Trail as snow begins to fall
Hiking Through The Holy Land: Israel’s National Trail
Relentless sunlight baked the air to 100°F. We pushed forward in the heat, one foot in front of the other across the barren Negev desert, hiking Israel’s National Trail.
Wildflowers & Ice: Hiking Turkey’s Majestic Kackar Mountains
My epic trekking adventure into the beautiful Kackar Mountains in Eastern Turkey. Hiking through colorful wildflowers and snow-capped peaks.