Contributing editor Megan Michelson is an award-winning journalist who covers travel and the outdoors for a wide range of publications, including Outside, The New York Times, and the San Francisco ...

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Down has the highest warmth-to-weight and warmth-to-packed size ratio of any widely available material. And quality items made from it can last for decades. If you take care of them. Here’s how. We ...

When I hear the word humid, I tend to think “warm and moist.” Tropical, in other words. Now if the weather here in the cool, often rainy Pacific Northwest (it’s pouring as I write this, in fact) is ...

So it’s time to break out your trusty sleeping bag for another season of outdoor slumber: music festivals, camping trips in the mountains or bike expeditions to the far reaches of the globe. Most ...

DEAR HELOISE: I have several sleeping bags that are in dire need of cleaning. Is it best to wash them at home or to take them to a dry cleaner? -- K.R., Cleveland First you need to read the care label ...