Bad decisions make for great stories.” I think I read that on a boardwalk T-shirt one summer, and it warmed my heart. On the weekend after Thanksgiving, though, I was cocooned inside a sleeping bag ...

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Outdoor gear that improve any adventure in nature.

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A hypnic jerk is a sudden involuntary twitch or muscle contraction that occurs as you fall asleep. Also known as sleep starts, these hypnic jerks may jolt the entire body or affect only one part, like ...

An emerging new generation of ultralight backpacking tents combines compact ... The solo Orbiter offers a 90 x 44-in (229 x 112-cm) sleeping area for a total of 27.5 square feet (2.6 sq m ...

And while rain covers do a pretty good job, most of the time, you need your sleeping bag and puffer jacket to stay dry all of the time. Even for gram-counting ultralight fanatics this one isn’t ...

Robby Kinlan, 21, was found dead in his bed on January 9 in Koh Tao, nicknamed 'death island' because of the number of tourist fatalities there. He had suffered an acute pulmonary cardiac failure, ...

Many of them are young backpackers seeking out the local party scene. Last year, a British backpacker was found dead in a drain on the island after going missing on a pub crawl. In 2014 ...