If you’re a long time reader, you will have heard about my long term plans to do a survival trip up in Canada for 3 days and two nights. I coordinated it for a trip I had planned to visit family, and my dad ended up coming with me. The …

When it comes to backpacking, there’s one thing I hate, and that is stuff that gets wet in my backpack… Especially if it isn’t supposed to be wet. Stuff Sacks are good and drysacks are better. Sea to Summit‘s line of Ultra-sil Nano drysacks is not only good or great, …

A little while back, I was sent an unbottle from a company called Vapur. Actually, it’s more of an anti-bottle. It’s a vessel for holding water, anyway, and in addition to being BPA free and light, it is also packable when not in use. It’s the Vapur Element. I’d been …

Finally the plans are set, in fact, as of tomorrow morning (Read May 7th), I’ll be out and suffering… I mean surviving! We spent 2 days scouting locations and we decided on the best of two. I haven’t made specific location plans, but I’ve decided on a lake that works …

A little while ago a company contacted me via youtube asking me to take a look at a product called “the fire puck”. It’s supposed to be a versatile firestarter that can be lit without other ignition sources and that burns hot and long. I decided to try it out …

    On the second day out, we had a guide and started up the original trail we had ventured down on our first day, but we went much further and saw so much more. This time, as we were hiking along, i noticed a licorice like smell that had …

    In a previous post I mentioned a trip down to the Bolivian tropical region called “Los Yungas”. We stayed in an 80 year old castle, but the real interest was in the trails.   When we unpacked we headed straight for the path that borders a small village …

Jessica Stark contacting me about writing a guest post on hiking sticks. While modern, collapsible trekking poles are popular, there’s still a lot to be said for a good, solid walking stick that you’ve tailored to your own tastes.  Hiking Sticks 101 by Jessica Stark If you’ve been hiking, you’ve …

    Thanks to our reviewers and writers, you probably haven’t noticed that I’ve been in Bolivia for a while now, even if I’ve kept quiet about it. I figured I’d start to tell a bit about our adventures abroad, starting with a recent trip we took to an area …

How often has it been the case that a start of a weekend camping trip is the long, drawn out ordeal of fitting a few days of food, clothing, shelter and accessories the trunk of a midsize car? The scenario is no doubt familiar. Pack… repack… unload…reload… all in the …

Carry over two gallons of water effortlessly in the Sea to Summit Ultra-Sil bucket and then store the bucket in it’s own micro stuff sack that slips in your pants pocket. It is so lightweight (1 oz) and compact that you won’t even remember which pocket you put it into! …

Well, Thanks to all you awesome guys and gals out there we’ve been able to team up with Terramar Sports and offer you the chance to win some awesome Terramar Gear with an Outdoor Adventure photo contest! Terramar is going to choose 3 winners who will all get their hands on …