Hiking and Backpacking

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Increasing Diversity in the Outdoors One Hike at a Time

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How to Choose the Right Backpack

A Mother’s Loss and a Grueling Race to Process the Pain

Dropping the Localism: Outsiders Are Welcome

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An Adaptive Athlete and Her Home Mountain

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Celebrating LGBTQ People in the Outdoors

A Father and Son Process Grief on a Walk

5 Moves for Increased Flexibility

How to Break in New Hiking Boots

Quick Tips to Avoid Getting Lost Outside

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New Rules for Hiking with an Off-Leash Dog

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The Quirkiest Hut Warden In New Zealand
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The Mid Caples Hut along New Zealand’s Greenstone-Caples Track services 5,000 backpackers each year. Those trampers, as they are called, are lucky enough to meet the fun-loving, trail-running, rock-climbing hut warden named Tanya Rinehart, who is the subject of Whitney Oliver’s film Tanya the Hut Warden.