A desperate text to 911 turned into a dramatic rescue in the Colorado high country after an early-season storm trapped a 37-year-old solo hiker in thigh-to-hip-deep snow on the Four Pass Loop on ...

“Thanks to the quick actions of our Forest Patrol Deputy, the man was located and immediately transported to Detroit, where ...

A recent survey of 1,008 U.S. hikers breaks down how often people are using substances on the trail, and the results are ...

A search and rescue team helped recover the hiker's body on October 25, nearly a week after they went missing.

Rescuers with the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) Aviation Team, Forest Patrol, and SAR volunteers responded to the ...

$135 (30 percent off) at Backcountry—Rab Storm Bivy $182 (35 percent off) at Steep and Cheap—Rab Alpine Bivy Backpackers have mostly ditched bivy sacks in favor of lightweight tents, and we can’t say ...

Take a look at the nutrition label on a freeze-dried backpacking meal, and you might be surprised by how much sodium it contains. Some meals pack more than 1,500 mg into a single pouch, roughly ...

As Backpacker editors, we’re gearheads. We test a lot of gear, and we still salivate over the shiniest, newest, lightest pieces of backpacking equipment as much as the next hiker. More often than not, ...

Imagine spending weeks walking across remote mountain ranges, following ancient paths between villages, or trekking through wilderness so vast that you can go for days without seeing another hiker.

Pack weight varies somewhat predictably by season. Summer gear is the lightest, winter is the heaviest, and shoulder season lands somewhere in between. The issue many people (myself included) run into ...

In 2016, on the last few hundred miles of my first Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike, I got my hands on a very early Pa’lante Packs prototype: It was hipbelt-free, frameless, and approximately the size of ...

I nearly slid down another steep, mud-slick slope, laughing and clutching the walking stick my guide had cut from a small tree. “I thought you said this was the dry season,” I called to him over the ...