When you are three hours into a backcountry trail and the nearest cell signal is a distant memory, a basic first aid kit will not save someone bleeding from a deep laceration. I learned this the hard way during a multi-day kayaking trip where a fellow paddler caught his leg on submerged metal. The band-aids […]

I have been chasing the perfect travel tripod for almost a decade now, and the truth is that the market has changed dramatically since I bought my first aluminum Manfrotto back in 2017. After spending the last three months testing 10 of the best travel tripods on the market, shooting everything from sunrise landscapes in […]

Wet socks stuffed in a stuff sack at 6 a.m. is a miserable way to start a trail day. I have been there, and so have most people who travel with a small bag. After two years of rotating through eight different clotheslines across kayaking trips, drive-in campgrounds, and one very cramped cruise cabin, I […]

I've been brewing coffee in the woods for the better part of a decade, and I still remember the morning I unpacked a wobbly glass French press onto a rocky picnic table in Yosemite and watched it shatter before the water even boiled. That single disaster sent me down a rabbit hole that turned into […]