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Find Great Hiking Trails Without Any App Here's something nobody likes to admit: half the time you go looking for hiking trails near you, you end up spending more time fighting with an app than actually lacing up your boots. You create an account, hand over your email address, sit through a permis

What Alex Honnold's Boldness Can Teach You There's a moment — and most guys who've spent serious time outdoors know exactly what it feels like — where you're standing at the edge of something that scares you. Maybe it's a ridge line you weren't sure you could cross, a stretch of whitewater you wer

There's a debate that's been going on in climbing gyms and crags across the country for years now, and honestly, it doesn't look like it's dying down anytime soon. Bouldering versus sport climbing. Which one actually makes you a better climber? Not just stronger, not just more flexible — but a genu

There's a debate that comes up every single time a group of outdoor enthusiasts gets together, whether that's around a campfire, at a trailhead parking lot, or in the comments section of some outdoor gear forum. Trail running versus hiking. Which one is actually better? And more importantly, which

Every year, thousands of hikers and trekkers head into the high mountains with big dreams and good boots — and a solid chunk of them get knocked flat before they ever reach the summit. Not by a fall, not by bad weather, but by something invisible. The air itself. Altitude sickness is one of tho