The 5 Best Camp Coffee Makers for Backpacking
Want a better cup of coffee on your next adventure? Here are 5 of the best ways to make coffee when camping!
Want a better cup of coffee on your next adventure? Here are 5 of the best ways to make coffee when camping!
We’ve noticed in the last year or two that despite the weight, people seem to like to cart their favorite alcoholic beverage into the backcountry (and certainly to the car camping site). So we figured, you know what? Let’s round up some of the stuff that makes backcountry drinking a bit more enjoyable. Fortunately, several…
Familiar with the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics? You should be. Whether you consider yourself an “outdoorsy” person or not, everybody can leave no trace, whether you’re taking a walk in the park or a hike up a mountain. Here are the 7 principles of Leave No Trace and a breakdown of how…
Maybe you think of first aid kits as the little plastic box that lives under your bathroom sink. Or the zippered pouch in the trunk of your car that hasn’t been restocked in ages. But did you know that a first aid kit is one of the 10 essentials you should always keep in your…
We frequently get asked what we eat on the trail. Sometimes by folks who are interested in trying backpacking and just want to know what to eat, sometimes by folks who have been backpacking for years but are looking to eat more plant-based. Either way, we’ve compiled a cookbook with 15 vegan backpacking recipes so…
When you head outside in the winter, it’s important to layer up. So we rounded up 5 synthetic base layers for your toasty warm pleasure.
When it comes to dining in the backcountry or campground, dinnertime is a sacred time. It means refueling after a long, hard day on the trail (or a long, hard 15 minutes of setting up your tent if you’re car camping). And dinnertime means dinnerware (you know, plates and stuff). Ultra minimalists might eat out…
Here at Terradrift, we have an inordinate amount of conversations about going to the bathroom in the woods. You might be surprised at how often it comes up in normal conversation. And we’re rarely the instigators! It’s true, I swear. In fact, just last night we were on a hike with friends and started chatting…
The beginning of week three of our Alaska road trip (read about week one and week two) finally saw us in Alaska! We were thrilled to have reached our destination (though the journey had been phenomenal) and to be meeting up with friends in Anchorage. There would be so much to explore near the city,…
We’ve heard a lot of people lately touting the relative merits of hammock camping, so we decided to try it out for ourselves. It helped that I recently wrote an article for popsci.com about hammock camping, so I learned all about the scientific benefits and couldn’t wait to see if it was all it was…