America’s Best Backpacking and Outdoor Adventures
NOTE: See my updated review of these pants here. Trekking Pants Westcomb Recon Cargo Pants $200, 13 oz. (men’s small) Sizes: men’s XS-XXL, women’s XS-XL westcomb.com One of the best pieces of advice I got this year was when a friend recommended these soft-shell pants to me for a weeklong, hut-to-hut trek in Norway’s Jotunheimen National Park in July.
Camp Kitchen Jetboil Sumo Titanium Group Cooking System $190, 12 oz. (weight not including the measuring cup or the pot support) $130, 16 oz. (for the aluminum version) Jetboil Sumo Companion Bowl Set $20, 6 oz. Set includes two 23-oz. (675 ml) bowls and one 15-oz. (450 ml) bowl jetboil.com From boiling water in near-freezing temperatures, wind, and drizzle with …
Before They’re Gone—A Family’s Year-Long Quest to Explore America’s Most Endangered National Parks
By Michael Lanza La Verkin Creek, swollen and bellowing with spring snowmelt, charges past us like a stampeding herd of bison—with a force and noise level that can make a reasonable person question the wisdom of stepping into its path. Deep in the Kolob Canyons in the northwest corner of Utah’s Zion National Park, it’s tearing enough dirt from its …
National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis calls climate change “the greatest threat to the integrity of the national park system that we’ve ever faced.” In an exclusive interview with The Big Outside for my book on parks and climate change, he talks about how the National Park Service is responding to the climate threat, and the possibility of employing drastic …