Every seasoned camper will admit to finding themselves, at one time or another, so tired, pressed for daylight or challenged by incoming or inclement weather that they simply pulled their tent from it’s bag and put it up as quickly as possible – wherever they could. Those veterans will further admit they probably didn’t sleep [...]

Late Friday evening. Day one of vacation. Back country West Virginia. Blue smoke flowing from beneath the motorhome and the pungent odor of burning transmission oil told us everything we needed to know. We were in trouble. At best, our motorhome transmission’s front seal was blown. At worst, a new or rebuilt transmission would be [...]

Are the kids bored with pizza-parlor or back yard birthday parties? Then get wild this year. Throw a camping birthday party – and not in the back yard. Take the fun to a campground or park. Cut loose, party hearty and put on a birthday event everyone remembers. Six Keys to Great Camping Birthday Parties [...]

Her fresh view and enthusiasm for shooting, hunting — everything wild — was engaging and contagious. Kristen Monroe, a 30-something mom from Wisconsin, recently found shooting, hunting and outdoor communications. Observing her, I looked back with some envy and admiration. I remembered my early days as a hunter, when I was about Kristen’s age. I [...]

African safaris were considered an extreme sport in the late 1940s and early ‘50s. Most Americans could only dream of experiencing the mysterious world of the kudu, elephant, zebra and rhinoceros. Roy Weatherby’s 50-day hunting sojourn in 1948, which he chronicled on newsreel footage and brought back to the states, gave Americans rare, real-life glimpses [...]