Here’s a fun fact about mountains: they make their own weather, and they don’t check the forecast first. They defintely don’t run it past you before deciding what to do. You can start a day in sunshine and end it in sideways sleet. And here’s...
Gear companies love the word “packable.” They slap it on jackets, pillows, daypacks, and, for all I know, burritos. It sounds like marketing fluff, but it actually means something. And on a trek, it matters a lot. What it means A packable item compresses...
Airports are strange places. They’re the only spot on earth where it’s socially acceptable to drink a beer at 6 a.m., nap on the carpet as hundreds of strangers walk past, and pay $14 for a bottle of water. Most of the time, international travel goes more...
Here’s something that doesn’t tend to appear in the travel brochure: the hardest part of your first big trek might happen before you ever lace up your boots. It happens at 11:47 p.m. on a travel website, when you’re staring at 47 flight options and...
Buying a headlamp used to be simple. It had one button. You pushed it, and light came out. Today’s headlamps have more modes than my microwave, and the instruction manual reads like a tax return. So let’s decode them. First, why you need a headlamp at all...
There’s a question I get asked more than any other. It isn’t about altitude sickness, or boot break-in, or whether the food in the teahouses is any good. It’s this: How do people make time to travel? I’ve been asked it by doctors, teachers,...
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