BACKPACKER Contributors and Editors

From exclusive interviews to heartwarming adventure tales, here are the most popular features we published this year.

Want to eat like the famous bears of Fat Bear Week? Here are six salmon-packed recipes that will have you feeling like a bruin along the Brooks River.

Olympic paddling got you stoked? Plan your own trip somewhere more stunning than Paris.

Enough of Type 2 Fun. These six hikes give you that just-left-the-spa peaceful feeling.

You only have a few weeks left until summer arrives. Better make them count.

You hate oatmeal? We don't blame you. It may be the easiest trail breakfast, but more often than not, it also ends up as a tasteless, textureless goop that hikers have to choke down. But suffer no more: These 10 trail-tested oat recipes are easy to make (just mix the ingredients in) and will satisfy even the pickiest eater.

Hit up one of these 7 hikes for a late-season color show.

Get the deepest backcountry rest of your life with these mattresses.

Ten trails. Ten unmatched miles each. Get maximum bang for each boot step on hikes that our most-traveled contributors call their all-time favorites.

Ghosts, serial killers, and abandoned towns: These spooky-season hikes hit harder than your average Halloween attraction.

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