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The cottage gear industry doesn't just need makers. It needs a place where makers can be found and a community that connects them to the hikers they s...

In Part 2, the origin story. Joe Hardin was once in the pulmonary wing of a hospital, unable to walk 100 yards without supplemental oxygen, dealing wi...

Joe Hardin just ran 314 miles across Tennessee in July. Self-supported. No crew, no aid stations, no shade. He went nocturnal to escape the heat, slep...

Donovan "Iceman" Rice drew a 2,000-mile loop around Colorado, told us in April he might be "wildly off" on every number, and then walked it: the first...

Joe Hardin once couldn't walk 100 yards without supplemental oxygen. He was in the pulmonary wing of a hospital, dealing with pancreatitis, a collapse...

Dan Durston spent hours on the Pacific Crest Trail thinking about tent geometry: why did trekking pole shelters have to be so complicated? Three years...

In Part 2, Cam and Doc get into what he's built and what he believes. The Hiking Life: a free resource started in 2010 while he was building the websi...

Backpacker Magazine has called Cam "Swami" Honan the most traveled hiker on earth. He has walked more than 75,000 miles across 68 countries. His Hikin...

Backpacker Magazine has called Cam Honan the most traveled hiker on earth. He has walked more than 75,000 miles across 68 countries. He completed the ...

Every cottage gear founder had a moment when they walked away from a conventional career. In "Quit Your Day Job," we hear four of those stories. Whitn...

In Part 2, the real story of why Andrea was primed for that stranger's suggestion in Vermont comes into full focus: years of political reporting that ...

Andrea Zelinski had been covering the Texas State Legislature for the Houston Chronicle for years and was newly divorced when a stranger on the Appala...