The best backpacking gear list is not all-inclusive. While it may not cover everything you need on a backpacking trip, it includes 20 of the most important items on your packing list—at least in our ...

I did not grow up in an outdoorsy family. We spent the occasional summer road-tripping through Colorado, sure, but I was just as likely to spend an entire school break playing Super Nintendo in my ...

Mystery Ranch is a historically great backpack brand in the backcountry hunting world, and the company’s new Mystery Ranch Mysterium series is an impressive, feature-rich line of packs designed to ...

Whether you’re a novice backcountry skier or an experienced splitboarder, one thing is the same: You need a ski backpack to carry your gear. Ski backpacks are an essential item in the backcountry ...

Your backpack is your command center in the mountains, and in winter conditions, it ensures operations run smoothly. The best backcountry skiing packs are roomy enough to fit all of your essentials ...

Your pack and its contents can make or break any backpacking trip. Our experts review the latest. The post We weigh up the ...

Having trouble figuring out the perfect backpack for skiing? Here’s the list of our favorite ski packs of 2025. Figuring out what to carry skiing is already hard enough, so let us take some of the ...

Backpacking packs are among the toughest items to fully test within the course of a season. They’re more complex than apparel, they take longer to show their weak spots than boots, and all the bells ...