Day hiking. It’s the gateway drug to the outdoors. Hiking can be as easy or as difficult as you’d like it to be, but it’s still just putting one foot in front of the other. One of the benefits of ...

Walmart has this best-seller emergency gear set on sale for nearly 40% off.

Survival kits are purpose-built for a very bad day, yet these kits don’t have a gloom-and-doom vibe for most outdoor enthusiasts. In fact, they usually evoke the opposite feeling. My survival students ...

You’ve got to love a good kit, especially when it comes from Ultimate Survival Technologies. Their Deluxe Camping/Hiking Survival Kit ($67) is small, but packed with survival essentials in case your ...

Ask a hundred outdoor enthusiasts to write up a shopping list for a wilderness survival kit and you’ll get a hundred different lists. The same is true for preppers building disaster preparedness kits ...

Kickstarter is home to many gear ideas, some more groundbreaking than others, intended to make the outdoors more hospitable. We trawled the crowdfunding capital of the Internet for the five most ...