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Thru-hiking the John Muir Trail in Seven Days: Amazing experience, or...
“Umm, hey buddy, you okay?” It’s 4:30 a.m., a time of day that puts us in the questionable company of cat burglars and alpinists. Our headlamp beams seem to bounce off the inky black of a moonless...
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The Magic of Hiking to Yosemite’s Waterfalls
My seven-year-old daughter, Alex, is engaged in some heavy intellectual lifting. I can tell by the way she stares quietly, her brow knitted in thought, at Upper Yosemite Falls. We’ve hiked for 90...
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Inspiration For 2013: My Top 10 Family Adventures
At this time of year, I start pulling out maps and guidebooks and poring over my lengthy—and always growing—list of outdoor trips I want to take. (My document slugged “Trip Ideas” is now 11,855 words...
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New Year Inspiration: My Top 10 Adventure Trips
I often get asked, “What’s your favorite trip?” And I can’t answer that one. To pick just one from all the amazing adventures I’ve had the good fortune to take feels impossible to me. But I tried...
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10 Tips For Raising Outdoors-Loving Kids
As we neared Gunsight Pass in Glacier National Park, on the middle day of a three-day family backpacking trip, a man and woman in their fifties stopped to talk with us. They sized up our kids and...
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Featured Photo Gallery: The John Muir Trail
There may be no more gorgeous long backpacking trip, step for step, than a thru-hike of the John Muir Trail through California’s High Sierra, from Yosemite Valley to Mt. Whitney. See why in this...
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Five Great National Park Adventures
Hearing the thunderous roar and walking through the rain of mist coming from some of North America’s biggest and most iconic waterfalls in Yosemite Valley. Seeing mountain goats, bighorn sheep, and one...
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Photo Gallery: 10 Beautiful National Parks You Can’t Visit Now (And What To...
By Michael Lanza With the federal government closed, we can’t hike, paddle, backpack, or climb in our national parks right now. No one knows when the government shutdown will end, but it can’t go on...
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Photo Gallery: 10 Amazing National Park Adventures (And How To Pull Them Off)
By Michael Lanza A few weeks ago, in the midst of the federal government’s, um, hiatus from functioning, I posted at this blog about 10 national park adventures you couldn’t do then. Well, this may not...
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10 Tips For Keeping Kids Happy and Safe Outdoors
By Michael Lanza Some people might say my wife and I are bad parents. We’ve repeatedly and deliberately placed our kids—at young ages—in risky situations. And I’m not talking about letting them ride...
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Planning to Thru-Hike the John Muir Trail? Do It Right on This 10-Day,...
By Michael Lanza Are you planning to thru-hike the John Muir Trail? “America’s Most Beautiful Trail” should be on every serious backpacker’s tick list. After thru-hiking it in a week (read my story...
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Photo Essay: A Year of Outdoor Adventures
By Michael Lanza Depending on every pay in fact that come people non persciption generic viagra non persciption generic viagra save up as payday term personal references. Even those that many customer...
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The Magic of Hiking to Yosemite’s Waterfalls
By Michael Lanza My seven-year-old daughter, Alex, is engaged in some heavy intellectual lifting. I can tell by the way she stares quietly, her brow knitted in thought, at Upper Yosemite Falls. We’ve...
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Inspiration For 2014: My Top 10 Family Adventures
By Michael Lanza How many outdoor trips do you have on the calendar for 2014 already? I have three, with five more in active planning stages. For me, this is the time of year for pulling out maps and...
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10 Favorite Images From 2013 Adventures
By Michael Lanza After plowing through several thousand photos taken over the course of about 15 trips last year, I selected the following 10 that represent, for me, either the essence of each...
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Photo Gallery: Celebrating National Parks Week
By Michael Lanza Are you planning to visit a national park this week or this year? National Parks Week reminds me of writer Wallace Stegner’s famous quote: “National parks are the best idea we ever...
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Ask Me: Advice about North Cascades, Olympic, and Mt. Rainier National Parks...
[Originally a message via facebook.com/TheBigOutside] Hi Michael, Thank you SOOOO much for taking time out to answer some questions I have. Myself (55 years young), my husband, my daughter, and her...
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5 Classic (Age-Appropriate) National Park Adventures for Families
By Michael Lanza What national park adventure should we take with our kids? That’s a question I get frequently from parents. It’s a tough one to answer, given all the great choices. But my advice...
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Ask Me: Is Early June Too Early For Hiking Mount Whitney and in Yosemite?
Michael, My wife and I, mid-30s, are planning a getaway week (from our kids 3 and 5) for the first week of June. We’ve booked cheap round-trip flights from Cleveland (900’ above sea level) to Las...
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Ask Me: Where Can I Hike in Yosemite in Late Fall?
Michael, First, let me say that I enjoy your trip reports, gear reviews and especially the photographs. I also love kids and your adventures with them are a joy to read. Your website inspires me to...
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