Back in the good old days of summiting Mount Everest, you could just shimmy down your pants, drop a deuce, and leave it right there on the snowy ground. The problem with just leaving poop on the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When his first daughter was in diapers, Jake Thomas began thinking about the problem of poop, never imagining it would become his life’s work. But it has.

If you’re one of the 63 million Americans who went hiking last year, chances are you’ve found yourself needing to go, with no toilet in sight. Aside from personal inconvenience, why is this such a big ...

I was lying on a boulder at the base of a waterfall a few weeks ago when my mind started wandering to the subject of trail etiquette. While I was relaxing, my hiking buddy was fording his way up a ...

NOTE: We would be remiss not to take advantage of this spell of abnormally cooler weather in North Texas this year. That’s why, despite Dallas’ concrete confines, we’ve been offering up suggestions ...

Dogs are a part of life in Summit County, and that means they like to do anything and everything their humans love about the outdoors. Earlier this summer, a pit bull was rescued near Quandary Peak ...

Dogs are a part of life in Summit County, and that means they like to do anything and everything their humans love about the outdoors. Earlier this summer, a pit bull was rescued near Quandary Peak ...

Brian Garner started a new job the very day I first emailed him. Garner, a 19-year-old thru-hiker, was training to spend his first season cooking and cleaning in the iconic alpine huts of New ...

NEVADA CITY (CBS13) — There's a poop problem in the foothills, and now a conservation group is asking the community for a creative solution the stinky situation. After finding 78 piles of dog poop in ...