How Guided Backpacking Trips Combine Adventure, Experiential Education, and Hassle-Free Transportation Across the USA
8 days ago
·Ready to explore the wilderness without the logistical stress? Learn how professional guided backpacking trips offer the perfect blend of outdoor education, safety, and provided transportation, making backcountry adventures accessible for everyone.
Wilderness Foraging for Beginners: Safe Wild Food Identification & Outdoor Survival Skills Guide
12 days ago
·A comprehensive beginner's guide to safe wilderness foraging, wild plant identification, and foundational survival skills. Learn how hands-on experiential education helps you build real confidence and self-sufficiency in the backcountry.
Top Survival Skills for Beginners: What Everyone Should Learn Before Your Next Outdoor Adventure
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Learn the fundamental pillars of wilderness survival, from the S.T.O.P. rule to fire craft. This guide highlights why experiential education is the key to staying safe during your American outdoor adventures.
Best Guided Outdoor Adventures in the USA for Beginners (Hiking, Canoe Camping & Survival Training)
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New to the wild? Explore our expert guide on the best guided backpacking, canoe camping, and survival training across the USA. Learn why professional guiding is the safest way for beginners to build backcountry skills and confidence.
Guided Backpacking Trips for Beginners — What You'll Learn on the Trail
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The leap from day hiking to overnight backpacking trips can feel intimidating. Carrying everythin...
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How to Choose the Best Corporate Wellness Program for Your Company
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Looking for corporate wellness programs that actually work? Learn how to choose the best corporate wellness programs for your team, why outdoor corporate retreats outperform traditional options, and what corporate retreat team building activities deliver lasting results. Destination Backcountry Adventures creates customized wilderness experiences that boost engagement, build culture, and develop leadership skills. Explore our approach and plan your next retreat today.
Winter Hiking 101
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Winter hiking provides unique conditions that require more planning and prep than spring, summer,...
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Hike & Harvest—Autumn in Upstate New York
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Our fall Hike & Harvest day adventures are some of our most popular trips each year. But what...
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Our Favorite Post-Hike Breweries in the Catskills
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Coffee tastes better in the backcountry, and beer tastes best after a day of hiking. Lucky for us...
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10 Reasons to Fall in Love with Canoe Camping
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Canoe camping may be the most underrated way to adventure in New York State. While many people kn...
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An Introduction to Bushwhacking AKA Hiking Off-Trail
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For many newcomers to the hiking world, the term “bushwhacking” produces images of machete-wieldi...
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Medical Considerations for Winter Hiking
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By Brad Winer, Licensed Outdoor Guide, NOLS Wilderness First Responder and AHA Basic Life Support...
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How to Dress for Winter Adventure
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By Dave DiCerbo
Many years ago, an inexperienced and arrogant young man set off on his first wint...
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Our top 5 tips for winter hiking and backpacking
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1) Layer, layer, layer.
We’ll cover this again in our upcoming article on what to wear for wint...
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Misty Mountain Marriage on Plattekill Mountain
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On May 27, 2018, at the top of Plattekill Mountain, in a cloud and a dream, we shared our vows an...
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Welcome to the Catirondacks
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Last week, we scouted a new trip with our friend Will Soter from Upstate Adventure Guides for the...
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How to stop your clothing from destroying the planet
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If you love getting your exercise on in the great outdoors, you're probably the type of person wh...
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Our Favorite Fall Hikes in the Catskills
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Upstate New York offers some of the best fall foliage in the world. Warm days, cool nights, and j...
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Find Your New Edge - Yoga and Hiking Trips
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"Find Your Edge"
Those are the words you hear right before your leg starts to wobble in tree pose...
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Know Before You Go: A Quick Guide to Rules and Regulations in the Catskills
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Over the past several years, hiking and backpacking in the Catskills Forest Preserve has increa...
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Getting Lost to Find Myself - How I Stumbled upon the Magical Secret Land of Trout and Berries...
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An Accidental Discovery
We’ve been visiting the “Secret Land of Trout and Berries” for years now...
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Catskills 3500 Club - My Journey from Tenderfoot to Guide
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It may be hard for you to imagine that there was a time when my life didn’t revolve around the o...
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More Awesome Press Coverage—Mens Health!
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We're flattered to be featured in this month's issue of Men's Health!
The article is called “Star...
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Survival School with the Wolves of Wall St (Journal!)
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We had the pleasure of hosting Jeff Bush from the The Wall Street Journal on a Survival School We...
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More than Mountains: Not all paths leads to the summit
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The first time I hiked with real hiking boots, I saw the Milky Way. I slept in a lean-to built w...
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Yoga Will Make You a Stronger Hiker
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There’s a moment when you see the break in the trees. You push past the last patch of spruce fir,...
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Utah: Beyond Words
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“We worked our way across the center of the state, then angled down into the canyon country so...
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DBA Gives Back!
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The woods bring us peace, they provide a place for fun, a space for contemplation and quite simpl...
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A Very Icy Day on Plateau Mountain!
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On a gorgeous, sunny and warm day towards the end of the "winter that wasn't," we headed up to th...
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Winterfalls!
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Well, we still haven't seen any snow of note upstate, but that hasn't stopped us from getting som...
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Bushwhacking Big Indian and Backcountry Bachelor Parties!
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Old Man Winter stubbornly refuses to spend any time in the Catskills this year and he's been miss...
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The Desert Calls and You Should Answer the Damn Phone!
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We are very excited to announce that we've outlined our itinerary for this year's Wandering Out W...
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Mountains & Mansions! An Extraordinary Adventure with Exceptional Accommodations!
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We love exploring in the mountains in the snow--we really do. We get to see views like this!
Bu...
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Survival School, Swimming & Shenanigans! A customized Catskills adventure for the John Jay Swim Team!
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This past weekend we had the pleasure of hosting the John Jay Women’s Swim Team in the Catskills ...
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Utah: My New Year's Resolution to Wander
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At the time of year where everyone is making resolutions to lose weight or take on new challenges...
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