Contest: Submit your favorite backcountry breakfast or dinner

By Hunter Hall | February 11, 2025 |

For the 2025 guiding season we’re looking for a new breakfast and dinner recipe. The two winners will get to take our “Plan Like a Pro” online course,an 8-week comprehensive trip planning curriculum. Most importantly though, they will become immortal backcountry chefs, whose meals will be savored by hundreds of starved backpackers for years to…

Extend Your Learning!

By Hunter Hall | February 28, 2022 |

This is meant to be a final ‘send-off’ post for our Plan Like a Pro course and guided trips with links, books, and other resources meant to further your education if you like, on your own terms. It starts with some of our favorite books, classes, apps, online communities and podcasts; and then it goes…

Tutorial: How to store, clean, and repair backpacking gear

By Hunter Hall | March 22, 2021 |

Once you find the right gear for you (based on your objectives) and spend your hard-earned money on it, you’ll want to make sure it serves you for as long as possible. You can help by Storing it properly Keeping it clean, and Knowing how to repair it when something inevitably happens to it. At…

Tips: How to buy backpacking gear

By Hunter Hall | March 14, 2021 |

Consider this a handy introductory guide to buying backpacking gear, with the emphasis on how to buy instead of what to buy. I’ll discuss the ethos of buying gear and the kind of mindset you should try to get into before purchasing anything, as well as the kind of traps you should avoid.  My personal…

74 testimonials about our online trip planning course

By Hunter Hall | January 30, 2021 |

Since 2014 I’ve asked our guided trip clients to complete a post-trip survey to gather feedback about our guides, locations, meals, and curriculum, plus their overall satisfaction. Reviewing the results is a multi-day project but entirely worthwhile: they confirm what we’re doing right, and they give me a checklist of improvements for the following year. Naturally, we…