Hiking Hydration: How much water should you take? Hiking hydration is extremely essential to your safety and health. I recently published an article about items not to take on a hiking trip. The main idea for the article was to make it humorous. I failed to make that...
18 Easy Camping Hacks to Make Camp Better Are you in search of some easy camping hacks? Well, I’ve got 18 camping hacks just for you. These hacks are bound to improve your camping trip, whether you’re glamping or backpacking to your camp spot. Camping should always be...
16 Things Not to Pack for Hiking DISCLAIMER: due to some of the content from comments made on this blog post, I’ve decided to add this disclaimer. first of all, my reasoning for this article is mainly geared at hikers who are looking up cut weight. If you were with...
10 Places to Stay Near Shawnee National Forest Do you need a place to stay near Shawnee National Forest? You’re not from Southern Illinois. You don’t know your way around that well. There are so many little towns around the Shawnee National Forest. You...
10 Shawnee National Forest Backpacking Loop Trails Are you struggling to find good Shawnee National Forest backpacking loop trails? There are more than 400 miles of trails in the Shawnee National Forest. It’s hard to determine what trails loop and which ones...
10 Strenuous Hikes in the Shawnee National Forest There are quite a few strenuous hikes in the Shawnee National Forest. Those last two words (“to enjoy”) might make some of you look at this article twice. Who in their right mind wants to go on a strenuous hike? Many...
