If you go backpacking and camping regularly your feet will eventually get wet. There's really nothing you can do about it, but don't just ignore wet feet. Ignoring wet feet will eventually lead to...

Figuring out the best tent stake length is harder than it needs to be. A few informal tests have been done over the years, but there's no concrete one size fits all solution. There's just so many...

Every backpacker starts to question the contents of their pack. Gear that seemed important when you bought it all of a sudden becomes unnecessary. Tent stakes are one of those items that's hard to...

If you're new to camping or you've been out of the game for a while you might wonder what comes with a new tent. Do you need to buy tent stakes or do they come with a tent? Do all tents come...

Back when I was a child, my boy scout leader told us that you could put a rope on the ground to keep snakes away. That seemed ridiculous at the time, but it was before GOOGLE so there was no way to...

As a grown man that screams like a little girl every time I see snake it's easy to see why so many people are afraid to go camping. There's just something about snakes that scares even the manliest...