Bouldering is free climbing without a rope to catch you. Fortunately, the sport stays relatively close to the ground.

The pathfinder as a searcher and the Pathfinder role at Explore!

What survival skills do you consider to be the most critical? Here are ten you might consider.

Ever watch the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week on TV? How about Animal Planet’s Nature’s Deadliest or Rattlesnake Republic? Do these shows instill a love of nature and a desire to get outdoors? Quite the opposite.

We reviewed Richard Wiese’s book Born to Explore: How to be a Backyard Adventurer several years ago. Wiese is also the host of an ABC TV (USA) show entitled Born to Explore that airs Saturday mornings. Now in its fourth season, the show has Wiese leading us on some fabulous expeditions around the world. Each episode is . . .

One way to camp in the winter is to use a hammock. A hammock has the advantage of getting you off the ground when sleeping and thus it reduces the chance of getting wet – if you do it correctly.

Winter camping requires a bit more skill than summer camping due to the potential for dangerous conditions associated with temperature and snow. Nonetheless, many people love winter camping. Here are five reasons:

Multi-generational playgrounds provide spaces for people of all ages to gather and enjoy the benefits of healthy physical activity.  In the past playgrounds have been for kids – with perhaps, a swing an adult could use.  Multi-generational playgrounds incorporate activities for adults beyond just a swing or two.  Most commonly these playgrounds include basketball and tennis […]

It’s a new term to me – “coasteering”.  It’s a sport that combines adventure and exploration in a mixture of ocean swimming, rock climbing (without ropes), caving, jumping and diving and about anything else you might need to do to explore the rough and high energy interface between ocean and land – without a boat […]

“A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. An area of wilderness is further defined to mean in this […]