Dispatches

Winter hiking provides unique conditions that require more planning and prep than spring, summer,...

Our fall Hike & Harvest day adventures are some of our most popular trips each year. But what...

Coffee tastes better in the backcountry, and beer tastes best after a day of hiking. Lucky for us...

Canoe camping may be the most underrated way to adventure in New York State. While many people kn...

For many newcomers to the hiking world, the term “bushwhacking” produces images of machete-wieldi...

By Brad Winer, Licensed Outdoor Guide, NOLS Wilderness First Responder and AHA Basic Life Support...

By Dave DiCerbo Many years ago, an inexperienced and arrogant young man set off on his first wint...

1) Layer, layer, layer. We’ll cover this again in our upcoming article on what to wear for wint...

On May 27, 2018, at the top of Plattekill Mountain, in a cloud and a dream, we shared our vows an...

Last week, we scouted a new trip with our friend Will Soter from Upstate Adventure Guides for the...

If you love getting your exercise on in the great outdoors, you're probably the type of person wh...

Upstate New York offers some of the best fall foliage in the world. Warm days, cool nights, and j...

"Find Your Edge" Those are the words you hear right before your leg starts to wobble in tree pose...

Over the past several years, hiking and backpacking in the Catskills Forest Preserve has increa...

An Accidental Discovery We’ve been visiting the “Secret Land of Trout and Berries” for years now...

It may be hard for you to imagine that there was a time when my life didn’t revolve around the o...

We're flattered to be featured in this month's issue of Men's Health! The article is called “Star...

We had the pleasure of hosting Jeff Bush from the The Wall Street Journal on a Survival School We...

The first time I hiked with real hiking boots, I saw the Milky Way. I slept in a lean-to built w...

There’s a moment when you see the break in the trees. You push past the last patch of spruce fir,...

  “We worked our way across the center of the state, then angled down into the canyon country so...

The woods bring us peace, they provide a place for fun, a space for contemplation and quite simpl...

On a gorgeous, sunny and warm day towards the end of the "winter that wasn't," we headed up to th...

Well, we still haven't seen any snow of note upstate, but that hasn't stopped us from getting som...

Old Man Winter stubbornly refuses to spend any time in the Catskills this year and he's been miss...

We are very excited to announce that we've outlined our itinerary for this year's Wandering Out W...

We love exploring in the mountains in the snow--we really do. We get to see views like this!  Bu...

This past weekend we had the pleasure of hosting the John Jay Women’s Swim Team in the Catskills ...

At the time of year where everyone is making resolutions to lose weight or take on new challenges...

We hope you had a festive and frightening Halloween! We went out with an awesome group and enj...

Autumn has Arrived! The last few weekends have been simply glorious, as we’ve watched fall settl...

Summer is off to an amazing start in the woods! Berries are ripe, boats are in the water and the ...

By Will Soter and Jessica Tackett Traversing the spruce fir forests and dense hemlock groves of ...

  While we value the incredible access we have to trails in the Catskills, true connections with...

This week was filled with sweeping views, beautiful wildflowers, weird and wonderful weather co...