Outdoor Adventure

There’s a version of lightweight camping that looks like a shopping list: titanium this, ultralight that, a thousand dollars of gear that weighs less than your winter coat. We know, because we almost bought into it. Our first few trips, we assumed going light meant going broke. Then we actually looked at what we were … Read more

We grew up thinking hiking meant loading the car, driving two hours, and spending the whole day out. It’s why we barely hiked. Then we moved to a city and discovered, almost by accident, that there were four trailheads within a thirty-minute bus ride of our front door. We’d lived there for a year and … Read more

# A Beginner’s Guide to Car Camping Gear That Actually Lasts Our first car camping trip was a disaster in the best way. We threw an old comforter, a cooler full of ice that melted by noon, and a $20 camp chair from a gas station into the back of our hatchback and drove three … Read more