How to Pack a Backpack for a Hiking Trip
Learn how to pack your backpack properly, comfortably and conveniently to make your next multi-day hike a gem.
Editors' Choice
Learn more about the best backpacking, hiking and camping gear of the year with expert gear reviews from Backpacker Magazine's annual Editors' Choice gear awards.
YETI Panga 100
Having conquered coolers, YETI brings its bomber aesthetic to drybags.
Big Agnes Copper Spur HV UL3
Live large in this lightweight, ultracomfy three-person tent.
Peter Whittaker’s 100,000-foot Promise
American mountaineering royalty flips the apparel industry on its head with the launch of Bight Gear, a line of clothing for mountaineers, by mountaineers.
How to Make Your Tent Last Forever
In the field, stuff happens, and knowing how to cope can be the difference between a great trip and a miserable one. Plus, your tent should last many years, but only if you know how to keep it working properly.
How to Keep Your Pack From Getting Gross
In the field stuff happens, and knowing how to cope can be the difference between a great trip and a miserable one. Plus, your backpack should last many years, but only if you know how to keep it working properly.
How to Keep Your Feet Dry
Your boots should last years, but only if you know how to keep them properly conditioned.
How to Care for Quality Raingear
In the field stuff happens, and knowing how to cope can be the difference between a great trip and a miserable one.
Editors' Choice: The Best Gear of the Past 25 Years
For a quarter century, our editors and contributors have taken the most promising products hiking and camping around the world in search of the cream of the crop. On the awards' 25th anniversary, we collect their favorites.
Editors’ Choice 2018: The Best Backpacking Gear of The Year
A lightweight backpack, custom-molded boots, and the best lip balm we've ever tried: meet our favorite gear of the season.
Editors' Choice 2002
The two tried-and-true products profiled here have been kicking around the backcountry for years, and we think they’re so good at what they do that they’ll be around for many more.
Editors' Choice 2000
To earn one of our annual awards, new and supposedly "best of the best" gear has to run a gauntlet unmatched in the outdoor world. No green pastures here, no warm-and-fuzzy backyard testing; we're talking about hundreds of days and nights on mountains, in the desert, and along rainforest trails.
