Later this week The Dyrt will launch in beta form. It’s an online project that seeks to share information about campsites around the U.S. Users will be encouraged to upload photos or videos of their sites, and share locations and tips. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of pick up get gets among the [ more... ]

We all have luxuries that we don’t like to give up when we’re on the trail whether they’re a bit of whiskey or shoes. Mammut is catering to the ultra light crowd with their new 39g inflatable pillow. I’m not sure how much it sells for, but if it’s more than a box of Franzia, [ more... ]

Hikers, skiers, climbers and anyone else who gets rescued in New Hampshire’s backcountry could be in for hundreds of dollars in fees under new legislation. The amount of the fee could be on a sliding scale based on the cost of the rescue, up to at least $1,000 per incident. The bipartisan law is being [ more... ]

Stacie Murray likes fresh air. Really really likes fresh air. The chef for the U.S. program in Antarctica spends almost every night in a tent overlooking a beautiful stretch of icy water, and she just logged her 730th day — two years of camping in the harshest environment on earth. In an email to Adventure [ more... ]

My first thought upon seeing the Tree Tent was, “What if I forget that I’m up in a tree when I get up to go to the bathroom at night?” But then I realized I’d be able to just hang out the side of the tent and let it fly into the night without worrying [ more... ]

Sorry, buddy, you’re a friend, but you’re also the poster boy for not leaving a note. Well, now you don’t have to. A new web-based alert system called iNeverSolo offers hikers, climbers, and other expeditioners the same safety net. You log your starting point, destination, and travel time into the site, along with the email [ more... ]

Camping gear is expensive and there are plenty of us who may only get to head into the backcountry a handful of times each year. A new crowd source rental site has sprung up in the Bay Area called WeekendSwap.com that seeks to turn campers into rental agents. You set a price for your tent [ more... ]

A West Virginia man’s recent death was associated with the hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite’s tent cabins. Yosemite has since announced that up to 22,000 visitors may have been exposed to the virus, which is spread by mice. Yosemite’s contacted many of the people who could have been exposed, but about 2,500 of them live outside [ more... ]

In mid-August 1937 the 2,181-mile Appalachian Trail was completed in Maine. At the time it was the longest hiking-only footpath in the world, and members of the Civilian Conservation Corps completed the final two miles. It took hundreds of volunteers 15 years to build the trail that stretches from Georgia to Maine — and it [ more... ]

When is a tool that can save your life dangerous to others? When that tool lets you bail out of a scary but not necessarily life-threatening situation. That’s the argument made by longtime climber and outdoor writer David Roberts. He argues that the proliferation of personal locator beacons, or PLBs, has allowed people in the wild [ more... ]