"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you spend a fair amount of time outdoors, a pair of rubber boots is a necessity year-round. In fall, ...

That kind of sounds like the start of a song lyric, but this morning the thought came across my mind of how it’s nearly the middle of June. Plus, June is already halfway through the year. I woke up on ...

Joe Jackson, Outside online's Gear Guy, never thought that the ten years he spent as a raft guide, outdoor retail employee, and vagabond would turn into a career. I worked in my yard in each of these ...

Fun story in the New York Times about a guy who wore some boots in the mud and then died: The 500-year-old skeleton of a man … has been found buried in layers of river mud in southeast London, ...

Journalists wouldn’t be journalists if they didn’t risk the occasional battering from nature — say a hurricane surge — or, in the case of Miguel Almaguer, a massive surge of mud. Firefighters had to ...