There’s nothing better than the magic of a campfire on a cool night — the crackling of the wood, the familiar woodsy smell, and the opportunity for some campfire cooking! Whether it’s perfecting your method or bringing the right gear, planning and thinking ahead matters when it comes to depending on your own fire building and skills to cook over an open fire with unrelenting high temperatures…Here are 5 tips for a successful campfire cookout!
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Rounding Up for Explore Austin
Summer has ended and schools are gearing back up for another semester — but as we all know, some of the best learned lessons can come from summer wilderness fun! Every Summer, the team at Explore Austin gear up to send over 150 young explorers on 18 trips to wilderness…
Reflections of a Modern Adventure Dad
Viktor Frankl once wrote that what one really needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of oneself. For many of us, there is no more worthy a goal than parenting. This month, in celebration of father figures everywhere, we sat down…
How to Spring Clean Your Outdoor Gear
After getting home from spending time in the great outdoors, whether it’s a day hike or weeklong camping trip, the last thing anyone feels like doing is cleaning their gear. All too often, exhaustion and procrastination win out, and people tend to stuff their dirty, grimy gear in the far…
The 10 Best Canoe Trips in North America
Everyone should spend a week paddling in a canoe, if not every year, at least once in their life. There’s no better way to get to know someone than being stuck in the same boat for days on end, and it’s been the boat of choice for hunters and anglers…
New to Nature? Here’s how to leave the great outdoors exactly how you found it
Right now, we all want out. Out of the house, out of the city, or let’s be real, we may go out of our minds! But before heading outside, here’s 8 simple (and very important!) tips on how to respect our land, wildlife and fellow nature-seekers! Let’s start with the…
10 Things to Know Before Planning a Trip to Great Sand Dunes National Park
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve is home to the tallest dunes in North America, topping out at around 755 feet. These ever-shifting hills and mounds sit west of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, creating a mind-boggling, desert-like landscape surrounded by 14,000-foot snow-capped peaks. Compared to most of Colorado’s…
The Wildest Seashores in America
From North Carolina, to Hawaii, to the Pacific Northwest, 7 unique coastal seashores for your next adventure! People like their seashores. They always have. The biophilia hypothesis even suggests we’ve got an intrinsic attraction to the coast, perhaps because of how fertile this threshold tends to be: Across human history,…
15 of the Most Iconic Hikes in the World
The planet is crisscrossed with epic trails, from the Alps to the Andes. There are snowy summit trips for fleet-footed peak-baggers, long and leisurely rambles for wildlife lovers, and everything in between. While the options are almost infinite, here are a few epic hikes to add to that ever-expanding life…
Nature’s Best Toilet Paper Substitutes
As I write this, Charmin, Cottonelle, and Downy Soft toilet paper, to name a few, are “currently unavailable” on Amazon. This verifies what you’ve always suspected: When things get scary in the US, the first thing most of us think about is pooping. The average American goes through 30 rolls…