About Dave and the Great Outdoors
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Dave and the Great Outdoors is a small backpacking site for people who want to spend more nights on trail and less time second-guessing gear lists.
I write about backpacker-friendly camping gear, backpacking food, and trail recipes — the kind of practical picks and meal ideas that fit in a pack, not a car trunk. Expect practical, well-researched recommendations and simple food that actually tastes good after a long day.
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Thanks for reading — and for taking the long way around.
Photos
Site photography comes from Unsplash under the Unsplash License. Thank you to these photographers:
- Rows of yellow tents pitched in a green mountain valley under a cloudy sky by Shantanu Nayak
- Clear mountain stream tumbling over rocks below rugged peaks by Martin Bennie
- View of a mountain at dusk through an open tent door by Dmitrii Vaccinium
- A pot of stew simmering over a campfire in the grass by Arpad Czapp
- Campsite in a sunny mountain meadow, ready for a trailside meal by Li Yang
- A lit tent glowing beneath the Milky Way by Alex Moliski
- Backpacker with a loaded pack on a rocky trail in autumn mountains by Alex Moliski
- Headlamps and lights shining over a hillside camp at night by Sebastian Marx
- Hiker seen from behind on a rocky alpine trail facing a mountain range by Alex Moliski
- Volcanic peaks rising above the clouds, seen from a high backpacking camp by Muhamad Guntur
- Hiker walking a forest trail toward an alpine peak by Thierry Lemaitre
- Camping hammock under a tarp between pine trees by Josh Koop