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    Make It Last: 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 mi

    8 Pro Tips for Spending a Year Living Out of Your Backpack

    Taking a year to backpack abroad after college is an idea that just about every young person toys with at one point or another. After all, riding trains to places with unpronounceable names, tastin

    Behind the Lens with Adventure Photographer Branden Aroyan

    Simply put, Branden Aroyan is living the dream. The 40-something Santa Barbara-based photographer, after making a name for himself in the man-eat-man world of surf photography during the last years

    A Return to the Colorado River: What It's Like to Raft the Grand Canyon

    “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.” - Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows I first read t

    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 cont

    Gear Review: All Hail The Therm-a-Rest MondoKing

    We’ve slept on all sorts of sleeping pads ranging from ultralight inflatables to those odd foam camping mats that look like egg cartons sewn together, but we’ve spent the most time sleeping on the Mon

    Gear Review: Flylow Higgins Jacket

    Flylow Higgins Jacket Review I know what you're thinking. March 1st is a little late to be writing reviews for ski jackets, but the truth is the snow keeps on coming and I have been a little "side

    Gear Review: Scarpa Maestrale RS Ski Boot

    With more awards to its name than we care to count, the Scarpa Maestrale RS Ski Boot hardly needs introduction. If you aren’t familiar with its pedigree, the long and the short of it is that since

    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

    From Mining Town to Ski Town: The Great Transformation of Park City

    It was once deemed a ghost town. That’s right. Park City, Utah, now one of the most buzzing destinations around, has been through some rough-and-tumble times. The now resort town was once

    Reduce Your Impact with a Big Agnes Solution Dye Tent

    If you’re shopping for a Big Agnes tent, you’ve almost certainly come across models with “solution dye” in their name, like the Big Agnes Tiger Wall UL 2 Solution Dye Tent or the Fly Creek HV UL 2

    Best Spring Hikes In Salt Lake City

    Winter loosened its grip early this year, and the trails closest to town are already calling. Before the Wasatch high country has shed its snowpack, the lower-elevation corridors ringing the Salt Lake

    10 Must-Do Hikes in the Mountain West

    From Montana’s Livingston Range to the Lechuguilla Desert of southern Arizona, the U.S. region known as the Mountain West is brimming with top-caliber hiking destinations. Narrowing down a list of 10

    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, are

    Wildlife Safety Guidelines: A Primer for Outdoor Enthusiasts

    Summer is prime time for hitting the trails and the waterways of America’s gorgeous backcountry. Which also means it’s prime time for running into the critters, large and small, for whom that backc

    Gear Review: Big Agnes Copper Spur HV

    In an oversaturated tent market, it’s not easy to make a name for yourself. Big Agnes has managed to do exactly that and has been consistently at the forefront of the ultralight backpacking market, le

    The Gnarliest Canyons in America

    Whether you’re eyeballing them from windswept rimrock above, knee-buckling your way down their walls via crazy switchbacks, or penetrating their heart on thunderous whitewater, America’s canyons an

    Insider's Guide to Gates of the Arctic National Park

    There are few places in the United States where visitors can go to truly get away from everything, and Gates of the Arctic National Park is one of those places. With no roads, trails, or campsites,

    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 som

    The Best Times of Year to Visit West Yellowstone

    West Yellowstone, Montana, the small community situated at the west entrance to America’s first national park, changes drastically through the four seasons. While summer heralds the arrival of a lar

    7 Reasons To Choose Utah for Your First Big Western Ski Trip

    It’s a well-known fact that Utah has attracted a population of serious skiers—and yes, the terrain and snow quality in the Wasatch Mountains are tough to beat, so some of the world’s best and b

    Backpacking Ice Lakes Basin: Big Views, Low Impact

    Set in a verdant alpine bowl at 12,000 feet in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado is the awe-inspiring Ice Lakes Basin. The peaks that stand guard here top out over 13,000’, many of them fe

    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 dif

    A Tour of America's Greatest Swamps

    When you think of “wilderness,” what image pops into your brain? I’d wager a lot of you first thought of snowcapped peaks—or maybe a convoluted canyonland, a lake-pocked boreal forest, or some win