Joy Martin

Listen to Your Senses: 4 Signs That It’s Time to Go Backpacking

Joy Martin|July 6, 2016

If the buzz in your head from fluorescent lighting, too much asphalt and a chronic case of the Mondays isn't fixed by your usual car-camping weekend excursion, ...

Three Questions to Help Determine If REI Signature Camping Is For You

Joy Martin|September 21, 2015

Answer the call of the wild without backpacking: Check out REI Signature Camping! Not convinced? Read on to see if comfort in the great outdoors fits your adven...

Bucket List: Backpacking Yosemite’s Half Dome

Joy Martin|August 19, 2015

Here's some good news, busy reader: All epics do not require three-week treks to basecamps at high altitudes, numerous vaccinations or bushwhacking through Amaz...

Kauai’s Kalalau Trail: Rain or Shine

Joy Martin|March 25, 2015

Hawaii's oldest island, Kauai, is one of the wettest places on earth, receiving nearly forty feet of rain annually in places. Most of the dousing occurs Dece...

Choose Your Own Adventure in Patagonia

Joy Martin|February 23, 2015

If you aren't limited by time and imagination, choose a course that takes you into the hinterlands, an itinerary that only ends when the wind wins and you catch...

What Patagonia is Not

Joy Martin|February 11, 2015

If you set regular hair appointments, there are calmer places than Patagonia to put on your bucket list. Then again, if you hold strong hope that there is still...

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