We’ve been waiting for over a year to try Fernweh Food Company’s backpacking meals and we finally got that chance a few weeks ago when we backpacked a few days out of Mammoth, CA. It’s always somewhat of a gamble to try new meals backpacking because having a bad backpacking meal just sucks!Enjoy …

A couple of weeks ago, we packed up our backpacks and headed out for a leisurely 3-day backpacking trip to Purple Lake out of Mammoth Lakes. It had been almost a whole year since I had been backpacking, and I really needed it! Getting out into nature and sleeping under the stars was what I needed.I …

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."- Helen KellerWhat the heck is a "micro-factory," I thought when I first saw Alisa post about her micro-factory in a mutual online outdoor group we're both members of. I mean, a micro- …

All industries have an impact on the environment and the apparel industry is no exception. The key to reducing that impact is by focusing on practices that we can continue long term, without the harmful effects of traditional manufacturing. We are glad to be at the forefront of this movement with ou …

In all honesty, we were a little skeptical about Ombraz's armless sunglasses at first. I mean, we've thrown away tons of sunglasses because their arms broke. Why would we want a pair without arms? Isn't that like eating a taco without hot sauce? It just didn't make sense. Yet, we were highly intrigu …

If you've ever been hiking down the trail and felt an extraordinary sense of connection to your surroundings, you've experienced a deepening of your spiritual relationship to nature. This feeling may have come in the form of clarity and awe for what you were seeing- maybe a lone giant red cedar you' …