Recently, I looked through the photos of my Great Western Loop trip in 2007. My, my—I had such a small and light pack. But the trend has been moving in the wrong direction ever since, and for about a ...

I’ve been lucky enough to travel all my life, both for work and pleasure, from the arctic to equatorial tropics to scorching deserts. And I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the right backpack.

Now that the snow has finally melted from the Ridge of Bell on Aspen Mountain, our thoughts can turn from skiing to hiking in the backcountry. In planning my first outing of the season I realized it ...

Fifty years ago, a young artist and hiker in Santa Cruz, California, dropped out of college and opened a backpack shop. That little storefront in downtown Santa Cruz grew into Osprey, an award-winning ...