With the holidays just around the corner, every one who has an avid outdoors person in their life is asking themself what on earth to buy them for a Christmas gift, particularly if they don’t always... 

Sleeping bags are, lets face it, practically a necessity if you’re an outdoors person. If you don’t have the right one for the job, chances are you’re going to be fairly uncomfortable... 

A compass is a very valuable camping tool especially if you plan on doing some hiking too. However, it’s important that you learn how to use the compass effectively. Nearly everyone knows that the compass... 

The growing awareness of humankind’s impact, or footprint, on our global ecology has lead to a strong trend in camping that’s simply called “Leave no Trace camping” As the name implies, the idea... 

So you have decided to join the countless other Americans who are camping this year but you need some help in choosing what to take with you. This site features some of the types of camping gear that you... 

Ok, I admit it. I like to take nearly my whole kitchen with me into the great outdoors so long as I don’t have to hike everything into a campground. Why? Quite simply the great outdoors makes for hungry... 

For many people their pet is a treasured part of the family without whom a vacation just wouldn’t be the same. But camping offers a very unique set of circumstances that could prove dangerous to a pet,... 

Camping with adults is far different than having know how about camping with children, be they yours or the children of fellow campers. There are a lot of very positive lessons that children can learn... 

For some people camping means a pop up camper on wheels with all the comforts of home. For others it means tenting it, but even tents can be large and well equipped, some even being designed to offer several... 

Okay now, I like a good adventure as much as the next guy, or girl, but I”d have to say, you truly need to be a hard line adrenaline junkie type adventurer for this adventure expedition. This is... 

Not everyone has a good grasp of camping, and what it means to live outdoors, in a tent for- several days and some folks find it int-imidating to think about trying to prepare a meal in that fashion. Frankly,... 

What in the world do you need that thing for.. Big expense and no return I’ve heard it said numerous times when anyone mentions the idea that a range finder might not be a bad investment. I like... 

Camping is becoming a bigger hobby for many more people than it used to be, with the urge to get back to basics biting most of  us at one time or another, even if we’re complete amateurs at the... 

When you’re off to the great outdoors, there are a few things you’re going to need and one of those is something to cook with, if you, like we do, prefer to find a camping spot where there... 

Camping is a ball to take part in, but there are a few things you’re going to need to take with you aside from the tent and sleeping bags that some newcomers to the sport or craft just don’t... 

So you wants to get more into camping and you want a newer tent than the one old Uncle Fred left from from his surplus army store that closed back in the thirties. When you go out to purchase that new... 

I am the proud possessor of an insane sister, (everyone needs one) who shares my penchant for camping in wintertime, a thing which no one else particularly cares for in my immediate family.. Camping...