Bethanie is a writer, editor, and author of animal-science books for kids. She covers camping, hiking, gear, inspiring stories, wildlife, adventure travel, and more for the Outdoors.com. She always has a few camping trips on the calendar.
If you have summer travel plans that include outdoor adventure, you won’t regret making these upgrades to your gear.
On Thursday morning at the Yamagata Airport in Japan, a black bear was spotted near the runway, and then it disappeared. Watch here.
A whitewater kayaker went over a huge waterfall, Palouse Falls, on purpose, dropping nearly 200 feet. Watch the footage here.
Brilliant trail-cam footage shows a very rare and endangered species—the Sierra Nevada red fox. Watch it here.
An unexpected rockfall at Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument barely missed two young swimmers in the water below. Watch here.
Footage of a mountain-lion group exploring a backyard in Colorado, is gaining a lot of attention online. Watch here.
The search for missing hiker Monica Reza is ongoing after six days. Reza disappeared while hiking outside of Los Angeles, California.
Yosemite National Park is a national treasure, and everyone knows it. A recent video shows Yosemite entrance traffic, and it’s scary.
A terrifying first-person GoPro video shows a man running from a charging elephant in Sri Lanka. Just wait until you see how close it was.
A video of a couple’s rare moose encounter in the Canadian Rockies has wracked up over 2 million views. See what happened here.