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Enormous Dog Rescued After Hiking Too MuchThis is Floyd. He weighs 190 pounds. He is safe now....

Another Hiker Dies Trying To Reach <i>Into The Wild</i> BusVeramika Maikamava, a 24-year-old Belarusian woman, died on Thursday in Alaska when she was swept away while trying to cross a rain-swelled river while hiking to the bus where Chris McCandless starved to death in 1992....

Poor Injured Hiker Subjected To Nightmarish Helicopter Rescue From HellThis probably isn’t the worst helicopter rescue of all time, but it’s enough to make a person consider whether it wouldn’t be preferable to die of exposure on a desert mountain, slowly baking to death under a relentless sun....

Knife-Wielding Hiker Accused Of Killing One Camper, Injuring Another On Appalachian Trail

One Appalachian Trail hiker is dead while another is recovering from several stab wounds after a man attacked a camp in southwestern Virginia with a knife early Saturday morning. Massachusetts resident James Jordan was arrested by Wythe County Sheriff’s Office deputies in the George Washington and J...

The Government Shutdown Has Turned Yosemite National Park Into A Congested, Poop-Filled Mess

After the federal government shut down on Dec. 21, National Parks Service workers were furloughed, but Yosemite National Park did not close. In fact, it is currently more open than ever, with the $35 park access fee waived and entrance booths bearing a “Pass On Thru” sign. People are indeed passing ...

A Simple Guide To Staying Alive In The National Parks

More and more Americans are getting outdoors. Since 2000, attendance rates to national parks have steadily continued an “up and to the right” growth trend. Between 2000 and 2013, year-over-year attendance bobbed between 260-280 million visitors. While that 13-year span could be considered healthy gr...

Driving Into A Raging Wildfire Seems Extremely Not Fun

The western half of the United States—and specifically the Pacific Northwest—is currently burning away to nothing, no thanks to California’s policy of, uhh, diverting water into the ocean or something. Major fires are right now burning in Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and western M...

Christian McCaffrey And Friends Helped Save A Hiker's Life

Christian McCaffrey and some friends went for a hike this past weekend outside of Denver, and their pleasant afternoon out nearly turned tragic after they witnessed 72-year-old Dan Smoker Sr. fall roughly 20 feet onto a rock. “I had never seen anything quite like that in my life as far as the traum...