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Planning your first weekend hike or a backpacking trip? Want to know what it's like to experience free fall from 13,000ft? Interested in swapping beta on some of the best bouldering locations across the US? Check out our Trip Reports for recent articles from our Featured Bloggers. Whether you’re venturing outdoors alone or with your family or friends, you’ll find something that matches your interests! We also tackle complex topics like racism, colorism, transphobia and queerphobia in outdoor recreation.

Posts tagged Indigenous

3 Ways to Build a More Inclusive Outdoor Culture

Are you a white hiker interested in creating inclusive outdoor spaces in your community? Get comfortable with examining white culture—naming and potentially deconstructing what you’ve always considered to be normal, or the standard.

Mardi FullerMardi FullerAugust 9, 2021Vermont, Green Mountain State, Allyship, Indigenous, ListicleComment

10 Ways to Prepare for Your First Backpacking Trip

Loving the outdoors isn’t “acting white,” it’s rejecting white supremacy and the belief that the outdoors belongs to white people. You belong there too. So here are 10 ways to prepare for your first backpacking trip this summer. Backpacking is for everyone. Just never forget, you are on Native land.

Nadia MercadoNadia MercadoJune 20, 2021Backpacking, Indigenous, Afro-Latinx, Afro-Latina, Hiking, Backcountry, Guide, Listicle, Hiking GuideComment