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Featured product · Fixed-Blade Knives
A full-tang fixed blade for your camp kit. Explore the Bravo 1’s product details, photos and buying options, and check the steel and handle of your chosen variant before ordering.
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Editorial
Expert-picked, reader-ranked: our editors set the ten and the launch order, then your star ratings move picks up or down over time.
Browse every Top 10 listOur editors test the gear, pick the ten, and set the order the day a list publishes. After that, the ranking is live: every member star rating feeds the community order, so picks climb or slide as real owners report back. Editorial judgment decides what earns a spot — you help decide where it sits.
Verified specs, feature and use-case comparison, and outside sources choose the ten and the published order; field-tested picks are labeled.
Your 1–5 star ratings drive the community order on every list.
Picks rise or fall over time — nothing is frozen at launch day.
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Named editors who use this gear in the field — here is who writes the picks.
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Gear reviewer based in Bozeman, Montana
Tom's thirst for adventure started in Boy Scouts and has only grown wilder. These days you'll find him chasing his kids through deep powder, ripping dirt bikes, chasing big fish in Alaska, or camping under a blanket of stars — from snow to sea.
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Free planners for itineraries, camp menus, and loadouts — all saved to your Basecamp.
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Keep your trips, gear, favorite places, guides and camp menus together as you take on the outdoors. Create a free account, save your favorites, then build a trip and return to your plans on any device.
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Trip planning
Verified places worth planning around — Alone filming locations, National Parks, big rivers, coastal ranges.
Featuring · Alone Show
Gear, clothes, filming locations, winners, wildlife, and season-by-season analysis — all in one independent hub. Build your ten, take the contender quiz, or dig into what actually wins.
Season 13 complete
Alone Season 14
Expected August 2027 on History
What Alone winners actually chose · Seasons 1–12
Field sports & craft
Deep reference sections written from first-hand field use — species profiles, knots and lures, and the shelter craft that keeps a camp livable when weather turns.
Hunting
Species profiles for 49 big game animals, a complete turkey hunting hub — calls, camo, blinds, spring vs fall — plus rifle, bow, and upland breakdowns.
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Fishing
Identify what swims where, tie the knot that holds, and let the lure planner match presentation to water and light.
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Shelter craft
The shelter progression that actually keeps you dry and warm — from a five-minute tarp pitch to a snow-season debris hut.
ExploreEverything outdoors
Hunting, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, bushcraft, backpacking, hiking, climbing, skiing and more — how to do it, where to go, and the gear that holds up.
Read & learn
Independent buying guides, practice-now skills, and dispatches from the country we cover.
Browse the full field guide library
Outdoor skill
Choose poles, tie a tripod lashing, raise a stable tripod over the fire and hang a pot at the right height with a chain, pot hook or adjustable trammel.
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Outdoor skill
Learn to interpret cloud formations to make short-term weather forecasts, focusing on cirrus, altocumulus, and cumulonimbus clouds.
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Outdoor skill
Learn to reliably tie a bowline knot with one hand, a critical skill for emergency self-rescue or securing a line when one hand is occupied.
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Step-by-step guides you can memorize before the moment matters — from one-match fires to safe ice travel.
Browse all skillsChoose poles, tie a tripod lashing, raise a stable tripod over the fire and hang a pot at the right height with a chain, pot hook or adjustable trammel.
LearnField SkillsQuick tricks give you distance estimates good enough for route planning without a rangefinder.
LearnNavigationContour lines encode slope steepness, direction, and specific landforms if you know how to read them.
LearnWaterWater boils at lower temperatures at high altitude, so you need longer boil times to reliably kill pathogens.
LearnShelterStandard stakes fail in wind and wet ground. Storm anchors keep your shelter down when weather turns.
LearnTools & CordageA dull axe is more dangerous than a sharp one. A basic mill file returns a working edge in minutes.
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hunting
Why First Lite's 308 Wool Tracker became my go-to off-the-rack wool hunting pant—quiet, warm, honestly built, and cut like a pant designed by people who hunt.
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hunting
Why Micklagaard’s made-to-measure Hamra Professional became my favorite cold-weather hunting pants—and how exceptional service rescued my sizing mistake.
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alone
Split gear, dense coastal bush, and the psychological weight of delayed reunions trigger multiple early exits in Alone Season 4, Episode 2.
Read articleAdventure Eats
Campfire classics and Dutch oven crowd-pleasers, with fresh picks rotating in all the time.
Free Outdoor Forum
Sixteen free boards covering hunting, fishing, backpacking, canoeing, camping, gear, survival skills and camp cooking. Every thread is a permanent page, so good answers keep helping people who search for them later.
Outdoor TV
Eight more hubs for the wilderness and survival shows worth watching — each with seasons, cast, where to watch and the latest news.
Utah slot canyons Show hubRunning Wild with Bear GryllsCelebrity guests pushed to their limits, season by season.Explore the hub
Qutang Gorge, China Show hubAsh DykesRecord-setting expeditions, shows, videos and gear.Explore the hub
The Yaak River, Montana Show hubMountain MenLiving off the grid in America's mountains.Explore the hub
The Serengeti, Tanzania Show hubNaked and Afraid21 days with no food, water or clothes.Explore the hub
The Moab desert, Utah Show hubMan vs. WildBear Grylls dropped into the world's wildest places.Explore the hub
Canada's boreal forest Show hubSurvivormanLes Stroud alone, filming himself for a week.Explore the hub
Alaska's Brooks Range Show hubLife Below ZeroLife above the Arctic Circle through the year.Explore the hub
Kachemak Bay, Alaska Show hubAlaska: The Last FrontierThe Kilcher family homestead, off the land.Explore the hubEach picture shows the country that series films in, not the show itself. Photos: Bureau of Land Management, Public domain; Hugh Llewelyn, CC BY-SA 2.0; Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0; Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0; Zach Dischner, CC BY 2.0; Pascal Gauthier (Xaphan9966), CC BY-SA 2.5; Carl Burger, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain; Beeblebrox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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