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What to know when backpacking and flying for a tri

What to know when backpacking and flying for a trip ✈️ (’𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲' 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴!)

Our recent trip to Colorado was our first time backpacking somewhere that we didn’t drive to! 🙈 Here are a few things we learned about traveling to backpack! 🥾

⛽️ FUEL: we could not bring fuel in our luggage! We had to make a stop to buy more fuel for our @jetboil before heading out on the trail!

🥾 HIKING POLES: These need to be checked at the airport! We could not bring them on as a carry on. On this note, do you like hiking poles? Giselle loved them but I haven’t tried using them yet 🤷🏻

🌧 WEATHER: we kid you not that we checked the weather when we landed in Denver and it said rain for the next week in the middle of summer 😂 this was NEW for us Californians because we never get rain! ALWAYS check the weather! We had to go to @rei to pick up some rain shells for our backpack!

🧦 CLOTHES: pack light! Wear the clothes you plan on backpacking in to allow more room in your backpack! This will make the pack lighter and easier to travel with!

Have you ever had to fly to go backpacking somewhere? ✈️

Ultimate California Summer Road Trip 🚙 (’𝗦

Ultimate California Summer Road Trip 🚙 (’𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲' 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴!)

The most common DM we receive is “I am going to be in California for one week, where should I go?!” Here are a few places that are perfect for escaping the summer heat ☀️

🏄‍♂️ SoCal
📍 San Diego
📍 Malibu
📍 Santa Barbara

🌊Central Cal
📍Morro Bay
📍 Big Sur
📍 Monterey
📍 Santa Cruz

🏔NorCal
📍 Lake Tahoe
📍 Mt. Shasta
📍 Redwoods National Park

Where is your favorite place to cool off during the summer heat waves? 🧐

Check out the link in our bio to find our MUST SEE spots for every location ☝🏼

Ultimate Guide to Channel Islands National Park ⛺️ (‘𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲' 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿!)

🗓 WHEN TO VISIT: The best times to visit Channel Islands depends on what you want to do! January-March is perfect for wildflowers, August-October is best for snorkeling, diving, kayaking, and has amazing visibility in the water! 🛶

🏕 WHICH ISLAND:

🛶 Santa Cruz is the most well known island and is the best to visit! It offers the most opportunities to adventure and is perfect for a 2 day 1 night trip!

🐣Anacapa is beautiful but only has 1 main trail and can be seen on a day trip! Don’t go during breeding season or you will see 1000’s of birds!

🦭San Miguel has the best elephant seals and has one of the largest groups in the world! It also has a lot of wildlife so it attracts sharks. We don’t recommend visiting for most people!

🚫 Santa Barbara is not open to the public right now because of Pier construction, but it is the smallest island!

🏝 Santa Rosa has the best beaches! Most of the Channel Islands are rock cliffs, but this island has sand to give it a real island feel. It looks like Southern California, but it feels like Big Sur weather and is cold!

🚢 THINGS TO REMEMBER:
It is important to book your camp on Santa Cruz early in advance because they are very popular and buy your tickets on @islandpackers very quickly! Our first try we had a camp for the night but no tickets on the ferry because they sold out!

Find our full Channel Islands YouTube video in the link in our bio! ☝🏼

Do you prefer exploring the mountains or by the water? 🧐

If there’s one piece of advice we usually give t

If there’s one piece of advice we usually give to people before they get into hiking and backpacking, it’s to invest in a quality pair of comfortable, waterproof hiking shoes or boots (and breaking them in ahead of time😉) 🥾#sponsored

We’ve been partnering with @garmontboots on our last few backpacking trips from California to Colorado to test out their new Dragontail G-Dry Boots. We are quite particular about our hiking shoes since we do tons and tons of miles and thousands of feet in elevation change in them and want to make sure they are cushioned and comfortable, and their new Dragontail G-Dry models have definitely become a favorite for our backpacking trips in the mountains!

They are ultra lightweight, breathable, and super versatile across all kinds of terrain, and grippy for rock scrambling. Ever since we both had knee surgery for prior injuries, cushioning has been a must, so the foam inserts are fantastic and the rubber outsole provides some peace of mind knowing we have some extra stability. We wore these during our past few backpacking trips from rain and hail storms to 90 degree heat, and our feet were protected, comfortable, and ventilated in both extreme kinds of weather with their G-DRY technology!

What’s the most important feature you look for in a hiking shoe? 🥾

#staywild #garmont #dragontail

How to Capture Long Exposures on Waterfall Wednesd

How to Capture Long Exposures on Waterfall Wednesday! 💦 (’𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲' 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴!)

☀️ There are 3 things that we always do to capture the smooth silky look of a waterfall under any conditions!

📷 ND Filter: this is a MUST for every long exposure in mid day sun. It screws on to the tip of your lens and has different stops to control the light entering the sensor. We like to say these are the “Sunglasses” for your camera! 😎

🔭 Tripod: We always expose our waterfall shots for 1/3” of a second and it gives it enough motion to look smooth. We have tried longer and shorter settings, but 1/3” gives the best effect. Tripods are a necessity for this because the shutter speed is so slow that it would make a blurry image if it moved!

📷 Lens Cloth: we always wipe down the lens before taking photos of a waterfall to avoid the spots of water in the picture! The closer you get to the base of the falls the more you will be wiping!

📷 Find all of our photography tips in our Photography E-Book! Check out the link in our bio. 👆🏼

What is the most beautiful waterfall you have ever seen?🧐

Answering our MOST ASKED Question👇🏻 (’𝗦

Answering our MOST ASKED Question👇🏻 (’𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲' 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴!)

How do we find the places we camp at while road tripping? 🧐

We usually try to find free places to camp since we love to ball on a budget when we are out road tripping! We always make sure to research a TON on the spots we go to save hassle and time when we are out on the road on the weekends. THEN, if we can’t find somewhere free to stay nearby, we start looking at paid campgrounds, airbnbs, hotels, etc. Here are our favorite resources to check while planning:

○ http://freecampsites.net
○ iOverlander
○ Campendium
○ BLM (Bureau of Land Management) Interactive Map
○ Research on the Forest Service website

Always good to know that many USA National Parks (like Yosemite) do prohibit dispersed camping and only allow camping in established campgrounds, so make sure to check before heading out to every spot on your itinerary. Whenever you choose a campsite, make sure you are following Leave No Trace Guidelines. If possible, try to use sites where you can tell others have camped before to avoid creating new sites. 🍃

Are you more of camping or hotels & airbnbs kind of person? 🏕

Summer Outdoor Apparel Features that are GAME CHAN

Summer Outdoor Apparel Features that are GAME CHANGERS 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️(’𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲' 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴!)

It’s officially summer and that means prime backpacking & hiking season is in full swing! #ad

We have plans to hit the trails almost every weekend and are so excited to finally be getting out in the backcountry after last year’s fire season cut our backpacking season short. Here are the features we look for in clothing when packing for our trips to the mountains & trails:

🦟 Insect Repelling Clothing: We were pretty skeptical about this concept at first because the clothes don’t smell at like repellent at all and we are both total mosquito magnets. BUT when G came out with just ONE bug bite versus her typical 30-40 on our last backpacking trip, we are now firm believers! As people who have terrible allergic reactions to mosquitos, this is such a nice function of some of the new pieces in the summer @llbean line!

☀️ Built-in UPF: Clothes with built-in UPF make sun protection so much easier! We are both so so adamant about covering up in clothes with UPF, hats, sunglasses, and broad-spectrum sunscreen to make sure we are protected while out exploring!

💦 Moisture/Sweat Wicking: We always look for clothes that are naturally breathable, well ventilated, and moisture-wicking that also dry fairly fast!

All of our new pieces from @llbean’s summer line have been versatile staples on our last few trips whether we were backpacking, hiking, or paddle boarding that check all the boxes! ☑️

What kinds of adventures are you planning on doing this summer?

#BeanOutsider #LLBeanPartner

Road Trip Planning 101 🚘 (‘𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲'

Road Trip Planning 101 🚘 (‘𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲' 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿)

It’s officially summer woohoo! ☀️ We are so stoked since we’ve got a ton of weekend trips planned for the next few months. We’ve been getting tons of questions on how we plan our trips so we thought it would be fun to outline our generic process below:

📅 Block Out Dates for Adventures: Since we still both work full time office/studio jobs, it’s important to plan far in advanced for us. We usually plan about 1-3 months in advanced but aren’t afraid to be spontaneous too! We typically sit down one day and plan out 2-3 weekends of every month that we’ll reserve for adventuring so we leave some rest/family weekends.

🌎 Pick a Destination: We usually choose closer spots in CA for our typical weekend adventures, but if we have a long weekend or holiday then we’ve been venturing out to other states. We are SO stoked because we just booked our first international trip post 🦠 and will be using up most of our PTO on that! We highly recommend stacking your PTO with long weekends as well so you can go to farther locations, as long as you don’t mind potential crowds.

📝Itinerary Planning: We love to lay out a giant document of all potential spots we want to visit and kind of do some sort of virtual location scouting with blogs, all trails, Pinterest, google maps, etc. so we can get an idea of what we want to do and where we want to go! We’re both very Type A lol. Then we narrow it down after listing out everything and throw everything on Google Maps to see what driving times look like, then narrow it down even more!

🏕Logistics: Make sure you know where you are sleeping, if you’ll need permits or reservations to visit any particular spot, your vehicle is good to go and has proper safety supplies, grocery shopping is all complete, packing is all done, etc.

🤙 Go! Sometimes this is the hardest part for people. Things may go perfectly or things may not go according to plan, but we constantly learn from our mishaps on the road and that’s always a fun part of the adventure!

Do you have any road trips planned this summer? Let us know where you’re headed below! 🗺

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