Preparing for a winter rafting trip in the Grand Canyon requires careful planning and packing. Once you're in the Canyon, there's no popping over to the store quickly to get something you forgot. Besides food and beverages, everything you launch from Lee's Ferry will be what you have with you when
Three-Season Backpacking Gear List for 2023
Three-season backpacking (aka backpacking outside of the winter months) more typically lends itself to summer and/or fair weather backpacking despite including both spring and fall. That said, here's everything you'll need - and everything I bring - for three-season success in the
Hayduke Trail Gear List: Everything You Need to Hike Across Utah
The Hayduke Trail may cover mostly Utah desert, but it requires more nuanced gear choices than one would expect from a "desert trail". I've spent a lot of time going over my gear selection (and potential gear backups) for the Hayduke, and after taking into consideration my timing (spring), the
Three-Season Backpacking Gear List 2022 (v2)
I've made a lot more changes to my gear list than I had anticipated, but many of these changes have been a long time coming. This gear is for three-season backpacking and would not be sufficient in winter conditions. Some items have been included for shoulder season hiking - like the base layers
The Best Ultramarathon Training Gear
When I decided to start training for a 100-mile (160 km) ultramarathon, I had little more than a pair of shoes as far as running equipment went. I quickly discovered that a sport technically requiring zero gear whatsoever - you can run barefoot and in the nude, after all - has available a lot more
Ultramarathon Packing List – Gear for a 100-Mile Run
An ultramarathon packing list isn't quite as complex and doesn't require much as packing for overnight backpacking, but it could be argued that the consequences are much higher. Forget something during an ultramarathon and it could ruin your entire race. Nobody wants to end up with a DNF (did not
Three-Season Backpacking Gear List 2022 (v1)
As my outdoor pursuits have become more varied, so too have my gear lists. That said, the three-season backpacking gear list is still the one I've spent the most time refining (and the one I have the most variations of). Here's my three-season backpacking setup for the upcoming year. What's
Mac’s Backpacking Gear List 2021 (v3)
I don't typically get to the third iteration of my gear list until the end of the summer or into the fall, but so much has changed in such a short amount of time recently, that I feel disingenuous not updating my list. What's changed from my previous gear list? Here are some of the items that