In 1968, a Minnesota insurance salesman named Ralph Plaisted was sitting in a bar, talking to a friend about snowmobiles. His friend said that if snowmobiles were so great, he should be able to ride ...

With almost 45 feet of vestibule space and four stability-enhancing criss-crossing poles, the next size up of REI’s Base Camp, the Base Camp 6 Tent, offers the best combination of space and ...

For adventurous campers, which no doubt includes more than a few Toyota 4Runner owners out there, rooftop tents can take the ...

The entire thing, poles included, weighs less than 4 pounds ... for that you’ll need to add extra weight in the base of the tent. (Bags filled with beach gear or a cooler will help!) ...

After days of delays, a rescue flight reached the South Pole on Saturday to pick up an ailing worker at a research station there. Snow and wind delayed the rescue attempt for five days while the ...

After years of producing ultralight shelters pitched with mandatory trekking poles and guy lines, it debuted the X-Dome 1+ freestanding dome tent with ... at backcountry base camp smoother and ...