“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me,” Sara said ...
I have come to believe that there may be nothing that requires more self-reliance than backpacking. And solo backpacking? Even more so.
Last year, I completed ...
This past August, Wild Wilderness Women embarked on its inaugural Babes Off the Beaten Path trip—a yearly opportunity for women to come together, build commun...
The Camp Kit! It’s like Netflix for camping gear, but better.
I remember trying Netflix for the first time. After spending aimless hours in video stores thro...
What do 2 ladies + 18 days + 200 miles + 9 passes + 1 summit + 1 bear (!) add up to?
Adventure, obviously.
Last summer, at the ripe old age of 21, Julia Whit...
A woman treads lightly upon the moss covered ground, her senses are her guide, she carries nothing but a knife. She carefully picks plants as she moves through ...
Inside the silver billycan — a cooking pot that is deeper than it is wide and cheaper than it is sturdy — a small mountain of lentils is bubbling and splut...
If you understand the difference between cuben and carbon fiber, spend more on hiking gear than on everyday clothes, and know the calorie content of every energ...
In the introduction to her book A Woman’s Guide to the Wild: Your Complete Outdoor Handbook, author Ruby McConnell describes her motivation for writing this p...
Mount Rinjani was a sketch in charcoal. Acres of burned-out grassland, the northeastern flank of the mountain eaten up, turned under. At the trail’s edge, sco...
Five miles into a hike on Yosemite’s Mist Trail, I stopped and panted, wondering whether I should (or could) continue for the rest of the planned twelve miles...
This trip was tried to great success in August and September, but if you're already dreaming of warmer weather, why not start planning for it now? Once the ice ...