By Becky Ohlsen, author of Best Tent Camping: Oregon, Backpacking Oregon, Walking Portland, One Night Wilderness: Portland. It’s one of the best things about traveling—you just never know what you might find around the corner. This is equally true whether you’re roaming the streets of a busy city,...
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No cats were harmed in the research of this article. Do you feel like your life has been missing something lately? Have you been searching for just the right way to bid adieu to summer? Do you want to be the envy of your friends? Or,...
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Looking for some inspiration to get out on the hiking trails around the nation’s capital? The Washington, D.C. area offers a wide range of scenery and terrain options for every level of ability. Authors Rachel Cooper and Renee Sklarew will share tips on choosing the...
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And just like that, another Outdoor Retailer has come and gone. A week that is both impossibly long and astonishingly quick. It's exhausting and inspiring. We all survive on caffeine and samples of trail mix and happy hours with beer and kombucha. Now that we've had...
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Writing a camping guidebook is daunting. How do you take an entire state and whittle down the best 50 places to camp? What do you include? Where do you selfishly exclude to keep to yourself? We asked Becky Ohlsen, author of Best Tent Camping: Oregon, how she picked...
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There are two things you can be certain of in the summer if you're spending any time outdoors—it's going to be blisteringly hot at some point, and you're going to get rained on by a summer storm at some point. But since there's no such thing...
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Uh, we have some bad news for you. All the pets of America got together and held a meeting and decided that all fireworks should be cancelled today. Not only are they dangerous and a fire hazard, but. more importantly, they also go KABOOM and...
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What Chicago winters do to morale rapidly disappears in the minds of residents when summer rolls around. People can be found doing myriad of outdoor pursuits such as picnicking, playing Frisbee, casting a fishing line, or practicing your tai chi. Many people prefer hiking in...
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New Jersey gets such a bad rap. New Yorkers love to point out that it's not New York, the entire country makes fun of the inability to pump your own gas, and it's the butt of every state joke. But true Jerseyans know that the...
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Summer weekends (or midweek adventures—we won't tell your boss) are best spent outside soaking up the long summer days and camping out on warm summer nights. They're even better and more relaxing if you can sit by a river or lake leisurely fishing, then coming...
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