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Fueling Adventure
By Brandy Jo Hastings / Photo Above: By Steven Reinhold If your outdoor explorations carry a dose of adventure and daring, you’ll want to meet a guy who can teach you how to make a bandage out of materials in the forest and spot plants that are natural remedies to poison ivy or bee stings. Not to mention whip up a near-gourmet meal of forest-foraged plants and put a wild spin on your favorite cocktail. Cooking and the great outdoors are simply in Natty Trebotich’s genes.
A Month After Helene, My Appalachian Community Is Looking to the Future
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. A thousand-year flood just ravaged the East Coast's epicenter of adventure. Reports coming out of the region in and around Asheville, North Carolina have ranged from strange to apocalyptic to awe-inspiring. We reached out to our resident hillbilly to help us wade through the muddy waters and make sense of the situation.
Ramp Up Your Camp Meals With the Appalachians' Favorite Vegetable
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Talk to any self-reliant hillbilly such as myself in the spring, and you’ll hear about secret spots rife with ramps—wild onions—hat they can’t talk about but somehow can’t stop talking about. They won’t tell you exactly where their ramp patches are located; they’re more likely to give you a handful and let the ramps speak for themselves.
Do You Know What Balds Are? Hike These For Iconic Appalachian Beauty
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Appalachia’s version of meadows—colloquially called balds because they’re characteristically treeless—are as mysterious as they are magical. Their views are unhindered, their origins debatable and their beauty unfathomable.
Forest Bathing Exists In Appalachia, Too. Here's How To Do It
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Nature is medicine, and like many folks I tried desperately to self-medicate with an endless drip when the pandemic hit. During those escapist adventures I started looking at the mountains of western North Carolina less like playgrounds and more like the couch at a therapist’s office.
Forest Bathing Exists In Appalachia, Too. Here's How To Do It
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Nature is medicine, and like many folks I tried desperately to self-medicate with an endless drip when the pandemic hit. During those escapist adventures I started looking at the mountains of western North Carolina less like playgrounds and more like the couch at a therapist’s office.
Max Patch Was the Appalachian Trail's Most Gorgeous Campsite-and it Could Be Again
After a group of campers left one of the Appalachian Trail's most beautiful sites covered in trash, the Forest Service banned camping there. But did it go too far? One local argues for a course correction. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. In September 2020, when news first broke that a legion of campers had left Max Patch in ruins, I told Backpacker “Every area has their own Max Patch.
We Asked 5 Appalachian Trail Hikers What Their Favorite Piece of Gear Was
Outside's long reads email newsletter features our strongest writing, most ambitious reporting, and award-winning storytelling about the outdoors. Sign up today. A thru-hike is the ultimate gauntlet for gear: nothing tests equipment like 2,000-plus miles of abuse on the trail. Only the very best designs and most durable construction remain by the time hikers reach the terminus.
We Asked 5 Appalachian Trail Hikers What Their Favorite Piece of Gear Was
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Black Folks Camp Too is blazing the trail to a more inclusive outdoors
Brevard, NC - Black Folks Camp Too is blazing the trail to a more inclusive outdoors with our mission of removing fears, adding knowledge and inviting “more” Black Folks to camp and enjoy the outdoor lifestyle with any and everybody! With the help of our outdoor industry partners—Adventure Ready, Backcountry, GSIandNemo—we have proudly launched our program of Black Folks Camp Too Adventures! On Black Folks Camp Too Adventures we step out into nature to explore the physical, emotional and...
What Happens When an Outdoor Social Media Whiz Targets Climate Change?
Outdoor Advocacy Project founder Katie Boué Katie Boué Every backpacker wants to protect the outdoors, but actually figuring out how is a different story. A new project aims to make that a little easier by collecting all the information that outdoor lovers need to become outdoor advocates.
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