How to Choose a Climbing Harness: Fit, Type, and Certification
What the spec sheets and standards actually tell you, and how to get a fit you can hang in all day.
Adventure
Longer and harder trips: multi-day treks, high passes, expedition cruises, sea kayak crossings and via ferrata routes. Each guide gives distance, ascent, grade, the passable months, guide fees and the fitness a route assumes. Written for travelers picking an objective they will train for rather than book on impulse.
Expedition-grade trips broken down by distance, elevation gain.
What to Know Before You Raft the Ocoee River in Tennessee
Release schedules, the two sections, outfitters, and what the Olympic-era river demands of first-timers.
How to Train for a Multi-Day Backpacking Trip: An 8-Week Plan
A progressive eight-week buildup of hiking volume, pack weight, and strength that fits around a workweek.
What to Know Before You Hike to The Wave in Coyote Buttes North
Permit odds, the road in, navigation, and the heat math behind the Southwest's most famous sandstone.
How to Choose an Ice Axe: Length, Type, and Certification Explained
A straight-talking guide to matching a mountaineering axe to the terrain you actually climb.
5 Utah Desert Backpacking Routes for Winter and Early Spring
Slot canyons and slickrock country where the best season runs from November through April.