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Missing for more than a month in the Australian Outback, American tourist Robert Bogucki was found alive and amazingly coherent yesterday in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia.

Stronger foot muscles can end ankle sprains and aching arches.

Test to see if your "shocks" -- the arches of your feet -- are blown.

Sometimes you have to turn off the lights in order to see.

The William O. Douglas Wilderness is a monument worthy of a great man.

Way up in Nevada's East Humboldt Wilderness, finding solitude and water are sure bets.

Play out your Lawrence of Suburbia fantasies at Indiana Dunes.

Where 100 unknown Sierra miles wait.

What happens when you go from sea level to altitude too fast? One brave editor found out the hard way, and offers her blow-by-blow findings in hopes that you don't suffer a similar fate.

In every backpacker's life, there comes a time when you stare awestruck at a mountain and wonder, "What's it like to climb that sucker?"

After you've spent a cold, drizzly, miserable night searching for a lost or injured hiker, sometimes a few simple words of thanks make it all worthwhile.

Leave the book in the tent and make a date to chat with some owls and sing with the frogs.

Stay calm, have a bite to eat, and remember there's nothing to fear but fear itself.

If you look beyond the occasional cow, you'll find the BLM has lots of ruggedly beautiful land to offer. No mining, no oil rigs, just lots of solitude.

Time it right and you can harvest fresh greens every day of your trip.

Rather than tearing open an envelope, wouldn't you rather slice and dice something fresh?

The ambling Wisconsin River has only one speed: full-out relaxed.

A Thoreauvian classic hike in New Hampshire.

While Sawtooth Lake grabs the limelight, behind the scenes lie crowd-free peace and splendor.

Why choose between breezy peaks and cool streams when you can have both at Big Frog Wilderness?

What have you done lately for the trails and backcountry you use? Join a Volunteer Vacation and save the trails you love.

Get spectacular Appalachian Trail mountain views without much effort on the Riga Plateau.

Like your first love, you never forget your initial visit to the Arctic.

The colorful walls of Palo Duro Canyon will delight hikers with masterpiece washes of color.

Escape from the urban at Wisconsin's Governor Knowles State Forest.

Check out Ted Stedman's author page.

Go through the looking glass in Utah's canyon country.

Walk among giants in Redwood National Park.

Hikers often overlook the the quiet meadows, wildflowers, and mountaintops of New Mexico's Latir Wilderness. Their loss is your gain.

A hidden spot in Washington's popular Alpine Lakes Wilderness.

Highest, biggest, wildest: Colorado's Weminuche Wilderness is a land of superlatives.

Lake Superior's best coast lies on Wisconsin's Apostle Islands.

Texas' Lost Maples has beautiful desert vistas -- and mountain lions.

Here's how to find the best of Wyoming's expansive Bighorn range.

Oklahoma's own Tennessee awaits intrepid hikers.

Boy Scouts paved an excellent trail in this Ozark gem.

The bare rocks of Oklahoma's Charons Gardens will haunt and delight hikers.

Texas' Big Slough is as wet as the Big Bend is dry.

History and landscape meet at Caprock Canyos State Park.

Think Iowa is nothing but flat? You haven't visited the Yellow River State Forest.

High, cool peaks rise over 7,000 feet above the desert flats in New Mexico's White Mountain Wilderness.

Break the long Michigan winter with a lengthy hike on Michigan's Riding and Hiking Trail.

History and nature intertwine when you hike South Dakota's stunning Black Hills.

The Marietta Unit provides some of the greatest river trails in Ohio.

Get away from the Ozarks crowd on the Berryman Trail.

The best way to see all Olympic has to offer is on the grand Valley Loop.

Never heard of Utah's George Washington Hayduke Route, have you? That's because it's brand new.

Nothing cramps your style like a knotted muscle. Here are simple ways to stay pain-free.

Use these specific stretches to alleviate muscle pain.

While the wolf reintroduction debate rages across the country, in Wisconsin the animals are simply reclaiming their rightful place.

Hike this gorgeous, mountainous section of Virginia's Appalachian Trail.

Boil, pour, stir, eat. Camp food doesn't get any easier than this.

Virginia's Iron Mountain Loop nearly breaks treeline in the east.

Hickory Creek Wilderness in the Allegheny National Forest remains a great hiking destination all year -- even in winter.

Burnt Rock Mountain provides great views along Vermont's Long Trail.

An Ozark oasis loaded with wildlife and fall colors.

Visit Arkansas' Buffalo National River Trail, where the huckleberries are plentiful and the views are wondrous.

Like to start your hikes up high? Then Arkansas Huckleberry Trail is for you.

The most old-growth forest in the east resides in North Carolina's Joyce Kilmer Wilderness.

It's not complete, but North Carolina's Mountains To Sea trail rivals Inman's journey in "Cold Mountain."

Bears electrify an already incredible experience at Glacier National Park's Bowman Lake.

Waterfalls and wonder: Both are plentiful in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge.

Kentucky's Cumberland Falls provide spectacular waterworks, day or night.

Hiking through wetlands in Pennsylvania? Believe it.

A hike up New Hampshire's Carter Dome has it all -- mountains, forests, water, views, solitude, and even a little challenge.

Great Basin's Mt. Moriah is a big mountain of solitude.

Wilderness worthy enough to inspire any classical landscape painter.

Crowd-free, rocky mountain highs -- you'll find this and more in Colorado's South San Juan Wilderness.

Luckily, Aldo Leopold's prediction about Mt. Baldy didn't come true -- these Arizona forests are just as verdant as always.

James Peak is a gem just 50 miles west of Denver.

Find a new kind of California beach on the undeveloped shores of Santa Catalina Island.

Dark, volcanic mountains soaring along the Pacific Crest make for a forbidding wilderness perfect for U.S. Marines in training -- or solitude-seeking hikers.

Secret scrambles and lakes abound in this northern California wilderness.

Cumberland Island's south shore provides remarkably pristine beaches and mossy forests.

These quiet summits feature the best views of New York's high Adirondacks.

Get above treeline in Maine's wild Saddleback Range.

Can you find solitude in Sequoia National Park? You can if you go off trail.