A search and rescue team helped recover the hiker's body on October 25, nearly a week after they went missing.

Rescuers with the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) Aviation Team, Forest Patrol, and SAR volunteers responded to the ...

The hiker was on the Bell Pass Trail, a roughly 6.6-mile out-and-back near Scottsdale, when a saguaro fell over in strong ...

$135 (30 percent off) at Backcountry—Rab Storm Bivy $182 (35 percent off) at Steep and Cheap—Rab Alpine Bivy Backpackers have mostly ditched bivy sacks in favor of lightweight tents, and we can’t say ...

Take a look at the nutrition label on a freeze-dried backpacking meal, and you might be surprised by how much sodium it contains. Some meals pack more than 1,500 mg into a single pouch, roughly ...

As Backpacker editors, we’re gearheads. We test a lot of gear, and we still salivate over the shiniest, newest, lightest pieces of backpacking equipment as much as the next hiker. More often than not, ...

Imagine spending weeks walking across remote mountain ranges, following ancient paths between villages, or trekking through wilderness so vast that you can go for days without seeing another hiker.

Pack weight varies somewhat predictably by season. Summer gear is the lightest, winter is the heaviest, and shoulder season lands somewhere in between. The issue many people (myself included) run into ...

In 2016, on the last few hundred miles of my first Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike, I got my hands on a very early Pa’lante Packs prototype: It was hipbelt-free, frameless, and approximately the size of ...

I nearly slid down another steep, mud-slick slope, laughing and clutching the walking stick my guide had cut from a small tree. “I thought you said this was the dry season,” I called to him over the ...

Whatever you love about hiking—the scenery, the exercise, the camaraderie, the quiet—it all revolves around one core truth. Hiking is about connection: It connects us with nature, and with ourselves.

As a onetime New Englander, I have a love-hate relationship with leaf season. Yes, the trailheads, campgrounds, and roadside parking choke up with camera-toting tourists out to catch that perfect snap ...