For These Refugee Women, the Trail is a Sanctuary
The outdoors are powerful medicine—and the Refugee Women’s Network is helping displaced hikers get back to it.
The outdoors are powerful medicine—and the Refugee Women’s Network is helping displaced hikers get back to it.
These made-in-the-U.S.A. layer, packs, and boots are designed to stand up to the rigors of combat. But how do they stand up to civilian hiking gear?
In the wilderness, it isn't cheap, paracord-wrapped hatchets and trenching tools that we need to survive. It's each other.
In the wilderness, it isn't cheap, paracord-wrapped hatchets and trenching tools that we need to survive. It's each other.
When the rigors of warfare prove too much for standard-issue gear, the military turns to the outdoor industry. But the flow of innovation, equipment, and profit is anything but leakproof.