When visibility collapses and familiar landmarks disappear, your navigation has to come from a system you carry inside your head and body. Pace count...
Steep, loose, and unstable terrain is where normal hiking habits stop working. A trekking pole isn’t just a comfort item on these slopes; it’s...
Backcountry water treatment usually fails in predictable ways: your filter freezes overnight, it clogs on silty sources, or you realize too late that “filters...
Bears don’t “visit camp” by accident. They follow calories, and your food-handling routine is either teaching them to stay wild or conditioning them to...
Altitude sickness is one of the most predictable backcountry problems, yet it still catches strong hikers because the timeline is unforgiving and the symptoms...
Heat illness is one of the fastest ways to turn a normal hike, hunt, or backcountry job into an evacuation. The problem is rarely...
Night is when routine camp problems turn into serious incidents. People get disoriented leaving a tent, headlamps wipe out your night vision, and a...
If you’re moving along a coast, in tidal marsh, or on an island, the water you can see is often the one thing you...
Avalanche terrain isn’t just a skier problem. Hikers and snowshoers get pulled into slides every winter because the hazards are often quiet, subtle, and...