America’s Best Backpacking and Outdoor Adventures
Rain Jacket Montane Featherlite Shell Jacket $399, 11 oz. (men’s medium) Sizes: men’s S-XXL moosejaw.com Not many corners of the globe receive more rain than southern New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park, which sees anywhere from seven to 10 meters of precipitation annually—that’s anywhere from 275 to almost 400 inches of water falling from the sky, upwards of 10 times as …
Solo Camp Cook SetJetboil MiniMo Personal Cooking System$165, 1 lb. 1 oz.backcountry.com When I’m backpacking long days and traveling as light as possible, I want a cooking system that’s not only lightweight, but efficient and easy: I need it to boil water fast in the morning, and by the time I get around to dinner in the evening, I’m too …
Ultralight Rain Shell Mountain Hardwear Quasar Hybrid Pullover $375, 9 oz. (men’s medium) Sizes: men’s S-XXL mountainhardwear.com There was a time when we thought of a waterproof-breathable jacket as a security blanket: It had to protect us against anything, so we wanted it to look like it could. Now that we know more about their strengths and weaknesses, we smartly …
By Michael Lanza As our 20-seat, twin-engine Otter DHC-6 prop plane drops through the ever-present Patagonian cloud cover, the Beagle Channel comes into view. On both sides, green hills rise to craggy, treeless mountains. To the north, the jagged Fuegian Andes of Argentina push into the sky. To the south looms our destination: the sharply pointed spires of the Dientes …
