The best thing you can say about gorp, the ur-trail mix of “good ol’ raisins and peanuts,” is that it provides enough metabolic fuel to get you to the trail’s end, where (let’s hope ...

A couple of months ago, I was shopping with my mom for a pair of hiking boots for her birthday. Our journey sent us to the Merrell outlet store where we browsed for shoes and deals (buy one, get 25% ...

It’s a sad fact of our commercial culture that the real worth of a great thing is often obscured by its own success. Consider “Peanuts,” whose creator is the subject of “Good Ol’ Charles ...