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    How to Groom Your Pets at Home

    . Popular Science With veterinary offices and pet grooming services shut down, people have started to see their beloved poodles and doodles turn into tiny lint balls, while their cats become hairy, ...

    How to Go Beach Backpacking

    What’s better than a vacation on a tropical island, walking barefoot down a soft sandy beach, listening to the soft lapping of waves and seagulls, or spying breaching dolphins and curious seals in ...

    How to Get Your Kids Skiing at an Early Age

    Slopeside meltdowns, freezing tears on frigid lift rides, urgent bathroom breaks the minute you’ve gotten all geared up: Hitting the slopes with your little ones can be a big-time challenge, n ...

    How to Bikepack the Colorado Trail

    Day 3 - 2:00pm - Below Georgia Pass I’m worried about the next pass. Thunderstorms loom over the mountains that line the horizon in every direction. The thin trail winds between wildflow ...

    How to Travel 18,000 Miles With Your Dog

    For two years, I worked toward a lofty life dream: to outfit a van and drive from California to Patagonia. By last winter, plans were finally coming to fruition. I quit my job, my boyfriend and I set ...

    ​How To Size and Fit Ski Boots

    Skiing might be an expression of creativity, yet picking out ski boots is the real art form. While many skiers spend a good chunk of change on flashy skis and colorful jackets, you can’t show off ...

    How to Teach a Dog to Fetch Beer

    This trick isn't suited for the duck blind, but sure is handy at home. The most memorable retrieves I’ve seen haven’t been 200-yard blinds for winged ducks, but 15-footers for icy Bud Lights ...

    How to Apply Hestra Leather Balm

    There’s little worse than finding yourself halfway through a blower day of skiing powder at the resort, sitting on the chairlift, and trying to stop your soaked through gloves from dyi ...

    How to Elevate Your Backpacking and Camping Food Game

    Food tastes better in the outdoors… we’re pretty sure it’s science. But no matter how delicious your favorite freeze-dried meal is, or how much you swear by tortillas and peanut butter, trying so ...

    How to Tackle a Long-Distance Hike in Winter

    Hiking the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail, which begins on Georgia’s Springer Mountain and runs all the way north to Mount Katahdin in Maine, is certainly a hardcore adventure. But making it thr ...

    How to Size Your Hestra Gloves and Mittens

    Everyone knows the typical run-around associated with buying gloves online: Pick a size more or less at random, buy them, try them on, exchange for another size, and repeat. Countl ...

    How to Plan a Menu for a Long Distance Backpacking Trip

    For many of us, menu planning for a backpacking trip is a last minute consideration. Stop off at a grocery on the way up to the mountains and grab the essentials: mac and cheese, ramen, oatmea ...

    How to Make Your Life Adventure Ready

    Some epic adventures are worth quitting your life for. We're talking about the months-long bike tours, the overland trips, and the long distance backpacking trips. In between the epics, though, ar ...

    How To Size Climbing Shoes Comfortably

    Should rock climbing shoes feel painful? It’s probably the first thought every climber has when we try on our first pair of climbing shoes, and it’s so difficult to answer because pain is rel ...

    How to Catch a Monster Brown on the Fly

    I love Brown Trout. There is something about the physical transformation they go through when become piscivorous and their inclination to murder streamers that has always enchanted me. For some fi ...

    How to Protect Yourself from the Elements on Your Next Hike

    Whether you’re hiking in the mountains, the desert, or anywhere in between, preparation for the natural elements is a big part of planning any outdoor trip. Exposure on a hike can mean many di ...

    Make It Last: How to Wax Skis and Snowboards

    Make it Last is dedicated to getting the most out of your gear. This is our place to share knowledge acquired over years of abusing outdoor equipment, so you can learn from our experience and our ...

    How to Beat the Crowds at America's Most Visited National Park

    According to National Park Service stats, Great Smoky Mountains National Park hosted over 11 million visitors last year. But that doesn’t mean you should give up on that backcountry trek or fly fi ...

    So, What Exactly Makes Alta Snow So Good?

    Lots of ski resorts like to brag about their snow. But if deep powder that skis like nothing you have ever experienced before is what you crave, there’s no better place in the country than Alta, ...

    7 Tips for Camping with Kids

    Did you switch out the car seats into the SUV? Did you pack sunscreen? What about bug spray? Oh shoot, we need to bring Lil’ Bear or else Ella will be in full-on riot mood at bedtime.All parents know ...

    4 Ways to Teach Our Kids to Be Brave (Even in a Scary World)

    "There are times when the bravest thing we can do is to ask for help."Let me just begin by saying, “Mom, you’re a hero.”As a mother of four grown sons and a Gmama to four grandbabies, I applaud you.

    Thru-Hiking With Your Significant Other: Tips on Staying Happy (and Together)

    When I first suggested hiking the Pacific Crest Trail to my husband, Adam, it was, if not exactly a joke, at least an off-the-cuff idea. We were on a short section hike at the time, rambling a ...

    The best tips for working from home, from people who do it all the time

    Transitioning from a traditional office or job site to your living room takes time to perfect.Your home office is rife with distractions and booby traps: TV, pets, kids, and, yes, that 55-ounce con ...

    10 Tips for a Successful Family Camping Trip

    For many of us, some of our fondest memories of growing up come from camping with our families. You just have to smile when you recall the fun of jumping into a cool lake on a hot summer day, chas ...