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e_SBlt Moraine State Park is offering a Making the Most of Your Piece of Nature workshop from 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday. The free sustainable backyard workshop is hosted by Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry and will offer information on managing your land to increase ...

The butter-bright flanks of golden trout are known to exert a magnetic pull on anglers.

The trouble is, the trout tend to live in some of the hardest-to-reach lakes of the high mountains. Consequently, those who want gold have to pay with a good measure of sweat, sore muscles and sometimes ...

Alexis Renee was 20 years old when she first met Chitti Aaron.

The couple met in Andhra Pradesh, India, 8,000 miles away from her home in Apex, North Carolina. Five weeks after meeting him, they were engaged.

Renee visited India before on short-term backpacking trips.

“The ...

My first glimpse of Holden Village was the tailings.

I was 10, and my family was nearing the end of a 32-mile backpacking trip to Holden. Soon after leaving Hart Lake, about 4 miles up Railroad Creek Valley from the village, we could see our final destination. Or, at least, the huge orange ...

I’ve covered hundreds of miles of trail hiking and backpacking with my mother over two decades, but one thing never seems to change – I struggle to keep up.

No matter the trail or season, my view on the way to our destination is the same: her backpack, floating a switchback ahead of ...

Years ago, I met Fredy Riehl, who co-owns Ammoland Shooting Sports News, at a Professional Outdoor Media Association convention. Ammoland is the best outdoor website in the country, so of course we hit it off. Fredy came out last year to backpack and flyfish, and this year his business partner ...

Matt and Kimberly Kinney always travel light when they head into the woods, leaving behind everything but the necessities and keeping their backpacks as slim as possible. Two summers ago they decided to add one very heavy item to the packing list: their 22-pound infant.

In July 2015, the ...

On June 10, I headed out on a multi-day backpacking trip in the Teanaway. I have had all the gear to go backpacking for years, including a small stove and and water filtration device, but the gear has been collecting dust in the corner of my room. It was time to put it to work.

I chose the ...

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When Robert “Rocky” Mellin was 40 and feeling restless, he met an Australian woman with a big backpack. Her tales of adventure became a siren song he still can’t shake nearly a half century later.

Mellin, 87, estimates he’s spent about 10 years traveling outside of the ...

If trudging up a steep, rocky mountain with a backpack isn’t your idea of fun, but you like getting out, here are five options for woodsy walks that won’t make your creaky knees cranky. Be warned, though, these are popular places — partly because the walking is easy — so don’t expect to be ...

OUTINSPIRE – One of the most accomplished, most durable and most mentally and physically tough backpackers of our time just happens to be a woman, and she’s coming to Spokane.

Record-setting hiker Heather “Anish” Anderson will be speaking at an evening event geared to women on May 6 at ...

Mountain goats and hikers are meeting in dangerously close proximity at Heart Lake in the Bitterroot Mountains.

The goats near the popular backpacking destination south of Superior, Montana, have given up the safety of the state-line cliffs, lured by human-related salts and foods around ...

Morning had broken when Steve and I slipped out of our sleeping bags, gobbled bowls of granola, took down the tent and repacked gear for the day’s 13-mile backpacking hike from Lower Twin Lake to Summit Lake.