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Backpacking stoves: What You Need to Know

Backpacking stoves: What You Need to Know

When spending one night (or many) in the backcountry, a warm dinner at night and hot beverage in the morning can make the difference. That invariably involves using a stove...

Backpacking stoves: What You Need to Know

When spending one night (or many) in the backcountry, a warm dinner at night and hot beverage in the morning can make the difference. That invariably involves using a stove...

Bear Canisters: Styles, Sizes, Considerations, and Use Tips

Bear Canisters: Styles, Sizes, Considerations, ...

If you are camping in bear country, or in any place where food storage is a concern, you should strongly consider using a bear canister–a storage system that is built...

Bear Canisters: Styles, Sizes, Considerations, ...

If you are camping in bear country, or in any place where food storage is a concern, you should strongly consider using a bear canister–a storage system that is built...

Easy 14ers near Durango: 3 days, 4 summits

Easy 14ers near Durango: 3 days, 4 summits

For many hikers, summiting one of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks is a lifetime achievement. Others make it their entire personality, working for years and even decades to climb all of them....

Easy 14ers near Durango: 3 days, 4 summits

For many hikers, summiting one of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks is a lifetime achievement. Others make it their entire personality, working for years and even decades to climb all of them....

Yucca House: Our Hidden National Monument

Yucca House: Our Hidden National Monument

Mesa Verde, Great Sand Dunes, and Rocky Mountain tend to top the list of national parks and monuments in Colorado, but with that fame comes crowds, lines, and stress. Not...

Yucca House: Our Hidden National Monument

Mesa Verde, Great Sand Dunes, and Rocky Mountain tend to top the list of national parks and monuments in Colorado, but with that fame comes crowds, lines, and stress. Not...

Pooping in the backcountry: A handy how-to guide

Pooping in the backcountry: A handy how-to guide

If you do any overnight backpacking, or even long distance hiking, there’s a good chance that at some point you may need to go Number Two. Because of heavy land...

Pooping in the backcountry: A handy how-to guide

If you do any overnight backpacking, or even long distance hiking, there’s a good chance that at some point you may need to go Number Two. Because of heavy land...

How to book a backcountry campsite: A brief primer

How to book a backcountry campsite: A brief primer

The time’s come. You’ve got your lightweight backpack, a comfy sleeping bag (of quilt), a sleeping pad that doesn’t (yet) leak air, a cool tent, a nifty little stove, and...

How to book a backcountry campsite: A brief primer

The time’s come. You’ve got your lightweight backpack, a comfy sleeping bag (of quilt), a sleeping pad that doesn’t (yet) leak air, a cool tent, a nifty little stove, and...