If you are camping, hiking, biking, skiing, trail riding or simply walking on a quiet trail through acres of high country forests you are an uninvited guest there. It is the home of deer, hummingbirds, rabbits, moles, hawks and eagles, salmon streams, snakes, beetles, elk, bears and mountain lions. We’re sure most of these creatures [...]

No trace and camping lite are just common sense. If you are going to the mountains to “get away from it all” and “to enjoy the glory of the wilderness” try to leave it better than you found it. Travel in small groups – the smaller the better. Use sites that have been previously used. [...]

By Mike Adamo, Exercise Physiologist The primary fitness demand for backpackers or hikers is for aerobic endurance. This is developed through rhythmic and continuous exercise. Although aerobic exercise should constitute the major focus of your training, this does not mean that weight training does not play an important role Resistive exercises help to strengthen muscle, [...]

Walking is one of mankind’s oldest means of locomotion. Before we invented energy saving machines like the bicycle and the car or realized that we could use animal, such as horses to do the work for us, walking was the only way to move from point A to point B. This may way help to [...]

As an individual who is in the midst of completing a graduate degree in exercise physiology I have quite a bit of information regarding “sports drinks” and physical performance. The most important consequence of drinking Gatorade or any other sports drink is not in electrolyte replenishment but in the carbohydrates that these drinks provide. A [...]

Running downhill is another idea that will help a hiker to be more efficient. It takes an increase amount of energy to climb a hill because you must do extra work against the force of gravity. This work is not wasted because energy can not be created or destroyed, instead it is turned into potential [...]