Rainy days don’t have to dampen your outdoor spirit! Hiking in the rain or backpacking in the rain can be a refreshing and rewarding experience if you’re prepared. Whether you’re hitting backpacking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tearing my video-game-obsessed tween away from technology and into the wilderness is no easy feat. After exploring 40 national ...

Maybe the name isn’t technically accurate anymore, at least when it comes to most of its members. But calling the Meetup group Overweight Hikers for Health still is an effective way of telegraphing to ...

Once you’ve been bitten by the hiking bug, it’s pretty much impossible to stop, even if you live in cold-weather climates where you can’t stop walking for fear of freezing solid. If you know someone ...

CLARK COUNTY, Wash. — In this week's Let's Get Out There, we head to the Tarbell Trail in Clark County. For the grown-ups who love to hike, it can be easy to zone in and charge toward the goal. But ...

Two facts: First, hiking/walking is still by far the most popular outdoor pastime; second, summer is when most of our hiking trails and backcountry campsites see most of their traffic. Any time you ...

Vermont is known as the Green Mountain State for good reason. Options abound to get your family into the woods. From easy saunters to impressive peaks, there’s no shortage of treks suited to all ages ...

Marty Walsh and the MDHT crew are now ready for the next steps after accomplishing some crucial and important tasks for the 125-mile backpacking trail over the past few months. Highway 61 runs between ...