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.
Rangers received a bizarre call about a random llama roaming around the El Corte de Madera Open Space Preserve in California.
A family tent camping in Yellowstone National Park endured a night of eerie howling, keeping them up and little scared. Listen here.
A family didn’t know what was coming when they spotted a shelf cloud moving ominously toward them in the sky. See it here.
A group of young men driving through Yosemite spot a bear in the woods to the side of the road, and they lose their minds (in a good way).
PSA for hikers—not all chirps you hear in the wilderness come from birds. Mountain lions also make a chirping sound. Listen here.
A clever black bear was determined to get some human snacks in California’s Lake Tahoe. Watch it go down here.
Fishermen in New Jersey had a close call when a massive whale lunged out of the water to catch some fish and nearly smashed them.
See a funny photo bomb from a couple of endangered birds—California condors—on a remote camera in California.
A group of four hikers in Alberta, Canada, found themselves being stalked by a mountain lion as they were out trekking before dawn.
A man attacked a hiker with a knife in the Grand Canyon after she got lost and asked for directions. Learn more here.