Hello, festive trailblazer! Welcome to the season where jingle bells ring, and shopping lists... well, they start to look a bit daunting. If you're here, chances are you're on a quest to find the perfect gifts for those special outdoorsy people in your life – the ones who think 'silent night' is best experienced under a sky full of stars. Are you ready to step up your gift game this year, moving beyond the realm of predictable socks (unless they are merino wool hiking socks) and impersonal gift cards? You're in the right campsite! This isn't just a gift guide; it's your compass to navigating ..read more

Hello, Fellow Wilderness Explorers of The Outdoor Soul! It's me, Bob – your go-to outdoorsman, dad-joke connoisseur, and now, believe it or not, a newly minted author. That's right, I've swapped my hiking boots for typing shoes (just kidding, I wrote most of it in socks) to bring you my first hiking book, "A Hiking Solo Guide: Just Me, The Trees, and My Thoughts (Help)!" The Wild Idea Let's rewind to six years ago, when "The Outdoor Soul" was just a sapling. It was here, amidst tales of trails and the aroma of virtual campfire coffee, that the seed for this book was planted. This wasn't just ..read more

Hello my fellow outdoor souls. I’d like to introduce to you, Muhammad Nasir, a hiker much like myself. He wants to share with you some tips and tricks to stay comfortable when hiking. This takes me back a few years to a post I wrote called Hiking Mistakes That’ll Cost Ya’, where I forgot to wear my merino wool socks on a hike and my feet ended up blistering like crazy. Take heed, my friends, as this is some important stuff, here. Guest Post: by Muhammad Nasir When the summer arrives, the weather becomes hot, so many people around the world tend to escape their day-to-day routines and spend ..read more

After reading about my past Fall Color Tour, you may be yearning to organize and plan your own tour. This is an annual family trip that I look forward to, and is always full of adventure and picturesque moments I want to keep. My kids are always asking me where we are headed for our next tour, and enjoy brainstorming ideas on where we should go. Although the trips are amazing, there is quite a bit of planning and organizing that goes into this. I recommend spending a good amount of time in the planning stage, at least a month in advance, to make sure it turns out epic for everyone involved ..read more

Greetings and salutations, fellow outdoor enthusiasts (or in my own way…Cheers, mateys). After a way-too-long hiatus from writing, I’m back in the saddle and at it once again. I kind of feel like I really need to make it up to you by providing a real whopper of a post, so get comfy, my buds and bud-ettes. There’s gonna be copious amounts of notable information in this one. Lots of things have happened since I’ve last been here in this position. I’ve let my blog sit for years now, yet I still have readers visiting my site and reading my past articles. This is good news to me, as I feel like I ..read more

Hey there. Howdy. I know it has been a while, but The Outdoor Soul is back in business. It has been a rough past year and a half, eh? I know that we all have had our own struggles with everything that has been happening and changing in the world around us. However, I want to let everyone know that it’s okay. Change is inevitable. We just have to roll with the punches, accept the changes, and find our own ways to deal with and live among them. Okay, enough of the sad speak, let’s have some fun now. So…recently, I was contacted by a company based out of Melbourne, Australia. This company called ..read more

Close your eyes and picture everything you enjoy and love about being out in nature. Now imagine a coastline that hosts thousands of kilometers of rivers, lakes, and the Pacific Ocean. Imagine a place where you are spoilt for choice with adventure lurking almost everywhere you go. Picture yourself and your trusty kayak companion, venturing out onto pristine shorelines or into serene bodies of water which glisten with every kayakers’ hope for excitement, adventure, and fun. Right about now, lyrics to a popular song from The Beatles comes to mind: “Picture yourself on a boat on a river, with ta ..read more

Not only is this guy a writer, researcher, and consultant, but he is also a traveler, adventurer, and fellow admirer of the outdoors. He has been many places all over the world, and his photography shows his kind spirit and love for all things nature and humanity alike. Let him tell you about his adventure through the Gorges of Verdon, France. I leave the table open to you, Tim. I have been blessed with a love of the outdoors from early childhood. I grew up in rural Ontario, Canada, and everything we did as kids were outdoor. The first months of my life were spent aboard a sailboat. From earl ..read more

I am proud to introduce to you James Woods, a fellow avid outdoor enthusiast, and owner of TripToTheWild.com where he shares his love of the outdoors and to help people find their way outside in order to enjoy the great outdoors. There, you can find plenty of great Outdoor Recreation Reviews and Advice to help you get yourself out in nature to enjoy what Mother Nature has to offer. Enough from me…take it away, James. Hiking is a great activity that brings us outside and allows us to engage ourselves in nature for a moment. Day hiking is a great activity that isn’t an expensive hobby or pastim ..read more

I’d like to introduce to you a fine young man and fellow outdoor enthusiast who has reached out to me and taken his time to put together a guest post for The Outdoor Soul. Thomas Glare is a small business owner who chooses to run his business while spending his time outdoors in the open air and has written a great little piece with suggestions on how you can start enjoying the outdoors while building a small business of your own. So, without further ado…take it away, Thomas. Description: Check the list of the best win-win solutions to run a small business ..read more