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Resole Your Hiking Boots

When you invest in an excellent pair of hiking boots, the last thing on your mind is replacing them in a few years. If you’re hitting the trail often though, chances are you’ll run those puppies to the ground in no time (literally and figuratively). With Earth Day right around the corner, we’re all looking [...]

Top 10 Hiking “Top 10 Lists” for 2009

Inspired by the oh-so clever minds at Indecision Forever, we conducted a thorough Google search for 10 long, excruciating minutes to bring you only the best Top 10 lists for the year. But to be completely honest, we have no idea if all (or any) of these lists were published during the 2009 calendar year. [...]

Dirt Time 2010

Sure, sure, you’ve gone on plenty of hikes. You know that sipping unfiltered stream water is frowned upon, let alone chugging gallons of it. And we needn’t remind you of how dangerous high-fiving grizzly bears and wiping with poison ivy can be. While you might as well be a survivalist scholar, you have to admit [...]

Bare Essentials: Five Hiking Must-Haves

Most advise traveling light, especially when you’re only planning a short ramble. However, you never know when that two-mile hike could turn into a day-long expedition. And if you don’t bring the basics, you could potentially put yourself and your future self in harm’s way. We pared down lists of 20 or so items to [...]

Top 10 U.S. Hiking Destinations

Already planning that spring hike? Or perhaps cold-weather treks are more your thing? Whatever the season, there are 10 utterly serene and stunning locales that you won’t need a passport to penetrate. 1. Tongass National Forest Being that it’s the United States’ largest forest, Tongass National Forest is statistically guaranteed to have plenty of breathtaking [...]