I’ve just returned from a four-day trip to visit family back in Illinois, where I hadn’t put in a holiday showing in 10 years. Two 13-hour drives in four days is some fun, I’m here to tell you. At least I got to pass through some mountains, albeit at...

I posted this today: a look at how guidebooks (Audubon, Peterson, National Geographic) are being re-engineered as iPhone apps. I focused on guidebooks because they are far more useful to outdoorspeople than the GPS-related apps — which are great as...

Somebody has gotten it into their heads there ought to be winter in the Southern Appalachians. I was not consulted. I was thinking I should have had my head examined when I showed up in autumn apparel at a deep-valley trailhead on the west side of...

Barbara Egbert’s fourth and final missive on planning a through-hike is posted at Trailspace. This time she talks to trail angels who have seen hundreds of hikers — and all their follies — in the course of giving them rides to trailheads and places to...

See, Coleman has a problem: it’s the most ubiquitous outdoor brand on the planet but none of the cool Internet kids think Coleman is cool. Witness Coleman’s scant 361 Twitter followers (as of 12/02/09) … meanwhile Camping Blogger will probably pass...