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As a kid, you spend a lot of time imagining you’re someone else, like an astronaut deep in space, or a ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to ...

Catching a fish with your bare hands sounds like the sort of story you’d hear around a campfire, a tall ...

  Some of you might be thinking, “Brett, why should I learn how to pick a lock if I don’t plan ...

Editor's Note: This is a guest article by Brett Stone.  If you stop and think for a second, you ...

When it comes to trying to save a life — either someone else’s or your own — it can be hard to ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest article by Dave Elniski. Driving may be the most dangerous task that ...

While bear attacks are rare, a man should always be prepared for a bear encounter. You never know when ...

It’s infuriating how a tiny little vampiric insect can ruin one’s experiences in the outdoors -- ...

Earlier this month, 71-year-old Donald Zimmerman was jogging near Pillar Mountain outside of Kodiak, ...

Looking for a way to while away the time with your kids while you’re waiting for your food at a ...

When you think of perimeter alarms, your brain probably conjures up images of laser beams, loud sirens, ...

There are many skills fathers should pass on to their children: how to ride a bike, how to skip a stone, and ...

It is one of the planet's great ironies that a person can be lost at sea, surrounded by water, and die of ...

Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to know how to give a commanding whistle with my fingers in my mouth. ...

When we got married fifteen years ago, we both wanted to make the outdoors a part of our lives together. ...

An essential part of being an awesome uncle is having a repertoire of tricks and jokes that ...

You're lying in bed at night and hear a noise downstairs. Is there someone in your house, and if there is, ...

It’s easy to forget that rope is a tool; like all tools, it needs to be properly maintained in order to ...

With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to ...