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Rice and pasta are nice, but if you want variety, add some millet, kasha, or quinoa to your trail menu.

To stem the pain, act fast when treating burns.

Sometimes, despite all the commitments and obligations, you know what you have to do.

You'd better like your own company, because that's all you'll have in Oregon's Badlands Wilderness Study Area.

Some species look alike, but guess wrong and you could have a harmful mistake on your hands.

Do you know your backcountry poisonous threats?

You can add another disease to those you might get from ticks: ehrlichiosis.

Is this health-food-store item really needed in those recipes?

Soreness and tightness in your shins (aka shin splints) can make every step along the trail painful.

Arizona's Red Rock Secret Mountain Wilderness is so incredible, you'll want to tell the whole world.

If you're a fan of waterfalls, then Arkansas's Richland Creek Wilderness is your dream trip.

With simple planning, you can turn your bare-bones backcountry meals into satisfying, energy-boosting successes.

Meet Jamie and Joe, who need help with everything from planning to packing to eating well. Enter our team of experts, with a few simple tricks designed to turn them-and you!-into well-oiled backpacking machines.

A little motion brings the heat back.

A 5,200-year-old artifact provides insight into early man's walking habits.

How to track where your environmental charity money goes.

When venturing into country "untrammeled by man," we can thank Marshall's unlimited efforts to preserve it.

Here's a quick tip for finding blazed trails.

Your daily cups of java seem innocent-until you hit the trail and don't get your normal caffeine buzz for a couple of days.

Think crypto comes only from polluted water? Your healthy camp mate could be a carrier.

You may have the Ozarks' wildlife-rich Ridge Runner Trail to yourself, but that doesn't mean you're alone.

Texas reader says plastic-coated wire ties are essential item for backcountry emergency kits.

Keep fresh and cool with this clothing tip from one of our readers.

Eight reasons to pack baking soda on the trail.

Forgot your toothbrush? You can still practice good hygiene.

The condors know all about Chumash Wilderness, but luckily, the masses in Los Angeles don't.

Keep scrapes clean with lightweight cleaning pads.

Cliff dwellings, petroglyphs, ancient pottery -- Utah's Grand Gulch is thick with history.

Everything you'd want in a long trail.

The little-known Ouachita Trail ranked third among the long trails for solitude.

Take along your plant guidebooks for this flora-filled treasure.

The challenge of Vermont's Long Trail will cure what ails you.

A whale of a Minnesota trail beside a Great Lake.

It's the longest stretch of virgin coastline left in the Lower 48. But that's just one of many reasons to hike it.

Mind-bending views, close-up wildlife encounters.

If any long trail is likely to induce a headache, it's the Colorado Trail.

Can you tackle our readers' favorite long trail? Test your hiking mettle against the Continental Divide Trail.

The famed peaks of the Appalachian chain entice some 2,500 people to attempt the thru-hike each year.

This magnificent trail travels through three California parks while showcasing the natural wonders Muir worked to preserve.

Carved limestone cliffs add even more to love on Wisconsin's Ice Age Trail.

David Brower led environmentalists in shaping the America we see and hike.

Quick Tips to Prevent, Recognize, and Treat Hypothermia.

A good pile of animal scat speaks volumes about your backwoods neighbors, if you know what to look for.

Compared with the rough-and-tumble Chilkoot Trail, the Senate is a walk in the park for Ione Christensen.

In the 1800s, cowboys didn't think much of the Grand Canyon's Parashant National Monument. Luckily, times and attitudes have changed.

Your 3 million sweat glands can make for a sweaty, smelly hike.

Body odor can get pretty bad on the trail. Here's how to make sure you never again hear the words, "What's That Smell?"

Tuck a folded square of aluminum foil in your pack and it may come in handy as a...

How to improve your tolerance for cold and enhance your outdoor performance.

In the 20 years since the passage of the Alaska Lands Act, nothing has changed in many of the state's wild places. And that's reason to celebrate.

The best trips are littered with mistakes, frustration, and, if a river called the "Little Misery" runs through it, boot-sucking mud.

For Deep South scenery, try Alabama's Conecuh Trail, where the gopher frogs and armadillos outnumber the people.

With a few precautions, expecting hikers can hit the trail.

The best way to honor a wilderness-minded senator is to hike the Jackson Wilderness.

Hikes with a lot of elevation gain and loss are prime for getting tendinitis in the Achilles tendon.

When you have park visitors asking such questions as, "The animals aren't really wild, are they?" you have a recipe for disaster.

Where the words "wild" and "life" take on new meaning

Some well-meaning, leave-no-trace horsepackers are trying to rein in their environmentally uncouth brethren. The question is: can they change practices and attitudes that date back to the wild west days?

Here's our guide to environmental etiquette while horsepacking.

What's good for elk is good for backpackers on Michigan's High Country Pathway.

New research suggests that bear bells don't work, and colorful tents and clothing may attract bruins.

The greatest backpacking parks in the United States, chosen for their scenery.

Glacier National Park possesses scenery that'll suck the breath out of your lungs, quiet so intense you'll wonder if your ears still work, and enough wildlife to make a zookeeper drool with envy.

When leaves turn the colors on a painter's palette, head to the Adirondack's High Peaks Wilderness.

When summer ends, crowd-free hiking begins in Colorado's Indian Peaks.