Before my first thru-hike, I didn’t own a scale and never knew what I weighed. I enjoyed beer and bread, and running and hiking. People never made comments on my body, and beyond the everyday ...

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Day hiking. It’s the gateway drug to the outdoors. Hiking can be as easy or as difficult as you’d like it to be, but it’s still just putting one foot in front of the other. One of the benefits of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many apps make opting outside easier, with AllTrails at the forefront. Launched in 2010, it now features over 450,000 trail guides ...

I’d felt strangely drawn to the Keystone XL. In the fall of 2011, when I fantasized about walking the length of the 1,700-mile proposed pipeline — that, if approved, will carry oil from the Tar Sands ...

Sometime around 3 a.m. on July 5 last summer, as I drove along Whitney Portal Road, I thought about a lyric from Phoebe Bridgers’ album “Punisher.” “Why would somebody do this on purpose when they ...

The 67-mile Backbone Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains offers numerous adventures, including this 9.8-mile section through ...

North Jersey's hiking trails offer stunning views from Pyramid Mountain to glacial lakes at Sunfish Pond, inviting locals to ...