Backpacking & Hiking

Pack your bag, tighten your boots, and get ready to hit the trails with your troop.

Backpacking & Hiking

Six stoves to heat up your campout menus

By Scouting magazine

For today’s primitive adventures, namely camping or backpacking deep in the woods, a reliable camp stove can still be a dream—turn on the gas, touch a match to the burner, and a blue flame pops to life, a torrent of channeled energy ready to do your culinary deed.

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Travel to East Texas’ Big Thicket National Preserve

By Scouting magazine

Deep in the eastern part of the Lone Star State, about 250 miles east of Austin, lies a vast, tangled quilt of pine and cypress forest, hardwood forest, meadow, bog, blackwater swamp, and arid sandhills appropriately called the Big Thicket.

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Backpacking & Hiking

Leave No Trace: Share the Responsibility

By Scouting magazine

The Boy Scouts of America plays a significant and fundamental role in introducing millions of youth to the out-of-doors, a critical task among a generation increasingly disconnecting from the natural world.

Backpacking & Hiking

Cookbooks to spice up your camping cuisine

By Scouting magazine

Spice up your campout cuisine with three new cookbooks by authors (and avid hikers) Christine and Tim Conners, who collect many of their recipes and tips from Scouts and Scouters.

Backpacking & Hiking

Hiking North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park

By Scouting magazine

Consisting of 70,447 acres of rugged topography, of which nearly half is designated wilderness, Theodore Roosevelt National Park offers some of the best national park solitude south of Alaska. More than 100 miles of hiking trails wind through the park’s three units.