by Johanna Wandel|Published 08-04-2006

There are a small number of things that are, well, different for women wilderness trippers when it comes to our biology. Unfortunately, these issues also make most men and even some women very, very uncomfortable, and thus we don’t talk about them openly very often – and solid information on somewhat taboo topics becomes difficult to find.

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by Chris Melanson|Published 08-04-2006

There is something mystical and alluring about the Northern Wilderness that has beckoned to mankind for thousands of years. The mere mention of The North conjures up images of a vast land, clad in forests of green that seem to march on to the ends of the Earth. It is an uncompromising land of hard rock and shallow earth, where the summer’s burn is short and the winter freeze rules all with a mute certainty – you must obey and adapt or perish.

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by Richard Munn|Published 07-27-2006

Unless we're paddling the simplest of routes, we will inevitably face the time where the navigable water ends and we are faced with the prospect of hauling our gear to the next lake, or we encounter that rapid that just looks a bit too wild and we decide to walk around it.

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by Richard Munn|Published 07-27-2006

Remember when? A look at camping according to authors in the 1950's.

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by Richard Munn|Published 07-21-2006

Looking for a versatile, compact stove that burns everything from canister fuels to white gas to kerosene to diesel? Primus may have just the ticket.

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by Richard Munn|Published 07-21-2006

Sometimes a product comes along that forces us to think "outside of the box," and in the case the box we're encouraged to think outside of is the tent we're used to sleeping in.

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