15 Backpacking Safety Tips Every Smart Backpacker Should Know
Here are a few backpacking safety tips to help keep you safe, stoked, and exploring the wilderness like a backcountry expert.
Here are a few backpacking safety tips to help keep you safe, stoked, and exploring the wilderness like a backcountry expert.
Belaying is arguably the most important skill in climbing so learning how to belay— and how to belay well— is essential!
To pass a belay certification test, you’ll need to demonstrate your ability to perform these 4 skills.
Study up and nail your belay certification test on your first try!
We’ve all been there before.
You pull up in the parking lot and shed a lonesome tear of remorse as you realize you didn’t remember your reusable bags.
You’re not alone.
The key to successfully always having your own bag is to create a solid system of habit.
Dear Climbers,
Our crags need you. Our planet needs you.
Here are some small small steps you can take to be a more sustainable rock climber.
With outdoor sports like hiking, climbing, and backpacking becoming increasingly popular every year, it’s more important than ever to be mindful of how we’re effecting outdoor spaces.
The better we can adventure in alignment with the Leave No Trace 7 Principles, the better we can minimize our impacts and protect our precious outdoor spaces.
Let’s give back to the beautiful outdoors by packing out ALL of our trash and starting conversations with our friends to do the same.
To ensure long term sustainability for our public lands, packing out all toilet paper is a necessary practice so we can enjoy our wild spaces for generations to come.
Here are 5 reasons to start packing out your toilet paper instead of burying it!
Here are the 5 best TED talks about sustainability. They cover topics like zero waste, climate change, protecting our oceans, growing your own food, and being mindful users, not just collectors, of our things.
Are you wondering how to start climbing outside in a safe and smart way? Do you feel ready to take your climbing game to the next level? Perhaps you’re completely enamored with rock climbing and want to be a certified rock climbing instructor?
These climbing festivals, events, and courses are the perfect gatherings for you if you’re looking for female climbing partners, mentors, or an inclusive climbing community who you feel comfortable around and want to share your climbing stoke with.
However you’re looking to take your climbing pursuits to the next level, here are some rad women’s rock climbing events and programs created to help you do exactly that.
Don’t want to spend $20 on spiritually-marketed baby wipes or a plastic bottle of something that looks like it should go in your car.
Learn how you can clean your yoga mat with safe, simple ingredients that you probably already have at home.
Going zero waste can seem overwhelming and nearly impossible in a culture where buying and throwing away a coffee cup every single day is so normal that nobody bats an eye or even questions the sensibility behind it.
Here are some step by step video tutorials on small changes you can try out in your life to make a big difference in the amount of waste you create.