Camping food doesn’t have to be made up solely of bland freeze-dried dinners and trail mix.  With a bit of planning, everyone can make great food in camp that packs light and tastes good.

Good camping food requires the right tools.  You’ll need a good camp stove, a set of cookware, and probably plenty of water.  And you’ll also need food.  Since camping usually means some amount of hiking, the food you pack will have to be light.  Any meat that isn’t dehydrated tends to be extremely heavy, making most campers vegetarians whether they like it or not. Read more »

Once the preserve of college students on a shoestring budget, backpacking has become a fashionable way to travel. Many tour operators who conventionally only offered plane-train-bus-cruise tours have of late started offering backpacking tours to cater to the changing needs of the travel industry.

Backpacking is adventurous, backpacking is exciting and best of all, backpacking is a great way to go off the beaten track and discover lesser known areas, even in popular tourist spots. Read more »

Spending a night in the woods no longer means a long night and sore back the next morning.  Today’s camping beds come in a wide range of sizes and comfort levels to work for everyone, from the ultra-light backpacker to the creature-comfort car camper.

Backpackers have been using rolled foam camping beds for years on the trail.  They’re light and warm, and they pack down reasonably well. Read more »

Backpacking tents, tents (usually nylon) designed specifically for hikers and backpackers in mind, can be a backpacker’s best friend.  Sure, there alternative ways to spend a night in the woods.  Many fast and light hikers are relying on bivy bags to keep themselves warm, nesting their sleeping bags inside waterproof bags and eschewing a tent all together. 

However, these weight watchers often wake up in sleeping bags soaked with condensation, even if the sky was clear all night.  Read more »

One of the most important elements of any camping or backpacking experiences is your food preparation.  A fun trip into the great outdoors can quickly turn into a nightmare without the right cooking equipment.  Chewing on raw macaroni and eating cold beans is no way to end a day of vigorous hiking or a really long drive.

Although the idea of cooking a meal over a campfire has a sort of romantic appeal, you should never count on a campfire to make your dinner.  Firstly, cooking anything other than hot dogs over a campfire is harder than it looks.  Read more »

Many of us enjoy getting away from it all.  Pitching a tent in the woods or on a campground next to a roaring fire for roasting our diner on a stick sounds perfect at times.  To enjoy these little breaks from reality, we must first invest in certain camping supplies to ensure our outdoor venture, a great one. 

These days we have almost anything we can dream of when it comes to roughing it in the outdoors.  Camping supplies range from 1-10 man tents, to showers we hang from a tree branch.  Read more »

If you love to go camping, you need to make sure you have the best tent that money can buy. You may want to skimp when you buy family camping tents, but I can tell you from experience that this is not the way to go. When there is nothing between your family, the weather, and the great outdoors, you want the very best and you should settle for nothing less.

You may have to spend more, but the extra cost is well worth it. It only takes one bad camping trip to convince your family that they don’t ever want to go again. Read more »

I have been an avid outdoorsman all of my life.  My dad himself was a hiker and a travel writer (although he was unable to support himself solely on travel writing) and he taught me a love of nature early in my life.  I myself have done some freelance work, and even briefly considered a career as a forest ranger.  Nowadays, I run my own independent outdoor supplies store, which is like a dream come true. 

Unlike a lot of the bigger chain stores, we try to point people towards the products that really suit their needs, Read more »