Sarah Grothjan is the camp and backpack editor for Uncommon Path and Expert Advice. A former crime reporter, she enjoys backpacking, fly fishing, road biking and binging thriller novels. REI member since 2019.
It’s the giving season, which means it’s time to start thinking of those special people on your list. But before you consider buying items shiny and new, we hav...
Some kids are born campers. Others need a little convincing. Lucky for parents, Hipcamp, an online site and app that enables people to discover places to stay o...
Michael Krajicek will be the first to tell you he likes to keep things simple. He grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, a blue-collar city known for blues music, ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has been observed annually as a federal holiday on the third Monday of January since 1983, 15 years after the luminary’s death. It's ...
When you think Cotopaxi, you probably think bright colors: blocks of pink and goldenrod, stripes of lime green. Maybe you even have Cotopaxi’s classic windbreak...
As a kid, Chris Urias frequented a park two blocks from his home in Montbello, a suburb of Denver. He'd relax in the sprawling field and stare out at the mounta...
One of Ray Bloomer’s first trips to Missouri's Gateway Arch National Park, in the 1980s, began at the gift shop. There, he purchased a figurine of the famous ar...
To many, voting rights can seem like a given. But for some, casting a vote is not as simple as mailing in a ballot or driving to the polls. A lack of transporta...
Voting is one important way to support causes you care about and to protect the outdoor places you love. But there’s a lot of information to sift through when c...
You probably know by now that voting in presidential elections is an important way to fight for causes you care about—including a life outside that’s accessible...
It’s hard to beat a summer night under the stars, whether it’s from a glamping site in a cactus-studded desert, an alpine lake tucked deep in the lush backcount...
rown. I remember everything about the moment: the bump of the root-fractured pavement beneath my skinny tires. The acidic smells of sea salt and diesel exhaust.
