Tips to Get Started

  • 6 Tips for Backpacking Beginners

    From planning to debriefing, these tips will help you to put together a successful backpacking trip for beginners.

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  • Tips for Backpacking with Your Dog

    If you’re thinking of taking a backpacking trip with your own dog, we jotted down a few of our tips to help teach how to get started backpacking with your dog.

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  • Tips for Your First Thru-Hike

    to help you prepare for your thru-hike or long-distance trek, we’ve made a list of seven things we wish we’d known before our first day on the trail.

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  • Tips & Tools to Keep Family Camping Fun

    Here are some hard-won pointers on family camping essentials to pack for vehicle-based family adventures great and small.

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Sustainable Camping Tips

10 Tips for Choosing a Sustainable Campsite

Sleeping in the dirt means you have a lot of choices. And you just might be surprised that there are so many different best practices to minimize your footprint and help conserve outdoor spaces for the next generation. So, we’ve put together our tips for choosing a sustainable campsite.

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How to Poop in the Woods

If you are going on adventures in the backcountry, at some point you have to poo. There are right ways to do it and wrong ways. If you’re wondering how to poop in the woods, we’re here for you.

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Tips by Activity

  • Backpacking & Thru-Hiking

    Get tips on everything you need for long hikes as avid thru hikers share their secrets on gear, self-care and keeping your sanity on the trail.

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  • Car Camping & Overlanding

    Car camping is not just for beginners Check out these 14 car camping tips for an epic weekend of the four wheeled variety.

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  • Winter & Snow Camping

    From Antarctica to the Arctic Circle, and Norway to South Africa, these are winter camping tips learned from experiencing a truly global winter.

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All Expert Tips from Therm-a-Rest

Winter Sleeping Pad: How to Choose

Winter Sleeping Pad: How to Choose

Therm-a-Rest Team

As summer becomes fall and fall becomes winter, a new set of challenges arrives with winter camping. Packing lists get heavier and longer as you gather the right gear for...

Winter Sleeping Pad: How to Choose

Therm-a-Rest Team

As summer becomes fall and fall becomes winter, a new set of challenges arrives with winter camping. Packing lists get heavier and longer as you gather the right gear for...

The Results of Resting Better

The Results of Resting Better

Jason Thienel

Sometimes, the idea of roughing it in the great outdoors primes our minds to think 'uncomfortable' and 'rough'. Some even impart an air of austere purity to suffering while out...

The Results of Resting Better

Jason Thienel

Sometimes, the idea of roughing it in the great outdoors primes our minds to think 'uncomfortable' and 'rough'. Some even impart an air of austere purity to suffering while out...

You Can’t Always be High and Dry

You Can’t Always be High and Dry

Sammy Spence

There’s not much that can ruin a trip to the mountains, but rain and water sure can dampen the mood. Within minutes, a heavy rain can leave you shivering with...

You Can’t Always be High and Dry

Sammy Spence

There’s not much that can ruin a trip to the mountains, but rain and water sure can dampen the mood. Within minutes, a heavy rain can leave you shivering with...

Tips For Backpacking In The Rain

Tips For Backpacking In The Rain

Patrice La Vigne

At some point in your backpacking life, you will encounter rain. Here are five tips for making backpacking in the rain more than just soggy memories.

Tips For Backpacking In The Rain

Patrice La Vigne

At some point in your backpacking life, you will encounter rain. Here are five tips for making backpacking in the rain more than just soggy memories.

31 Days of ROCKtober

31 Days of ROCKtober

Jenny Abegg

Highway 120 climbs up from Yosemite Valley to Tuolumne Meadows, shedding temperatures and crowds with each mile, the granite shrinking and taking on gentler angles and faces. A chill wind...

31 Days of ROCKtober

Jenny Abegg

Highway 120 climbs up from Yosemite Valley to Tuolumne Meadows, shedding temperatures and crowds with each mile, the granite shrinking and taking on gentler angles and faces. A chill wind...

Tips For Adventure In Any And Every Forecast

Tips For Adventure In Any And Every Forecast

Bethany Hughes

Take it from thru-hiker and world traveler, Bethany Hughes; you need to be prepared for any and every forecast on your adventures. Get her tip for your gear while backpacking

Tips For Adventure In Any And Every Forecast

Bethany Hughes

Take it from thru-hiker and world traveler, Bethany Hughes; you need to be prepared for any and every forecast on your adventures. Get her tip for your gear while backpacking