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.
A motel reported a guest missing after the person failed to check out. Search-and-rescue crews located the person’s body on Mount Whitney.
A kayak fisherman recently had a close encounter with a great white shark off the coast of Half Moon Bay. He was spooked.
A couple of playful bobcats are capturing hearts in a video showing them wrestling and playing around in Bend, Oregon.
Massive boulders rained down upon a popular trail in Utah on Friday, and now the trail may need to remain closed until spring. Watch here.
A wildlife photographer in California set up some Halloween scenes in the Santa Ana Mountains next to his trail cams. See what he captured.
While jogging, a man came upon a male wolf that was not happy to share its space with the runner. Watch here.
A very determined squirrel had her work cut out for her when an intruder (a snake) snuck into her tree cavity and made itself at home.
A massive bull elk bugled at bystanders in Estes Park, Colorado, including two men who were standing quite close to the animal. Too close.
An eastern brown snake, one of the most venomous snakes in the world, recently crawled into a shed and then disappeared . . . almost.
Adorable footage from Jackson Hole shows two bear hanging limply from tree branches as they take a midday nap.