You don’t have to scour too hard to find a sublime camping spot on the outskirts of Seattle. The city lies within a few hours of a slew of top-tier camping locales, such as Mount Rainier, the San Juan Islands and the Lower Cascades. After visiting for a conference last week, I borrowed a car […]
You’re fat, unhappy and stressed. Your computer stalls in the middle of an important project and you want to throw it out the window. The printer gets a paper jam and it feels like the world is closing in. Finally, you leave work, get in your car in the parking garage and drive to your […]
When I reached Kenton Whitman by phone last week, he had just moved out of his yurt. The 40-year-old wilderness enthusiast and life coach had spent a year in the woods of Wisconsin with his wife Rebecca and 2-year-old daughter Mirabelle, in an attempt to live a simpler, more natural existence. The experiment in primitive […]
The Detroit Free Press ran an article last week entitled, “Incompatible camping couples find way to keep peace” about couples who don’t share a love for the great outdoors. Such a disharmony in outdoor values can be tricky to navigate in a marriage, especially if your husband happens to be an avid outdoorsman, as the […]
When I spoke on the phone to Oregon resident and outdoors aficionado Anne Guthrie, she was hurtling through northeast Oregon on her way to the tiny town of Enterprise. There, she intended to explore the Eagle Cap Wilderness and Hell’s Canyon, America’s deepest river gorge. It was a typical weekend for Guthrie, a 27-year-old Oregon […]
When I was in my youth, I spent very little time sleeping outside in sub-zero temperatures. Some of that had to do with my aversion toward the cold, the rest probably with the fact that I grew up in Louisiana. Regardless, it ‘s safe to say that I never had a chance to earn my […]
Campers have all sorts of different ideas about the best way to get their rest in the great outdoors. However, few are more unique than hammock camping, where campers sleep suspended in the trees. This tactic will be on display en masse this week in Osceola State Park in Florida, where a group of hammock […]
Family camping is a double-faced term. For some, it evokes memories of balmy afternoons playing hide-and-go-seek amidst towering pines, catching fresh trout in gurgling creeks and roasting S’mores over roaring campfires. For others, its summons forth dark days of buying expensive camping gear, getting lost on the way to a state park, getting lost at […]
Approximately 2,500 years ago, a strange, wandering bald guy named Siddhārtha Gautama took a break from a long walk to sit down under a Bodhi tree somewhere in Northern India. He sat under that tree for 49 days, barely moving, until he achieved a state of calm, meditative relaxation he called “enlightenment.” Then, satisfied with himself, […]
by Daniel Lawton Every year, millions of campers around the world snuggle up next to a campfire, roasting S’mores, sipping on hot chocolate, telling ghost stories and having a generally fabulous time. However, if not approached cautiously, a campfire can also be a hazard. Just last week, an 11-year-old Australian girl was badly burned in […]
