I see them every single day: Neatly-knotted plastic bags of all colors, sometimes "discreetly" tucked by a trailside boulder, atop a marker post, or, in the most egregious cases, right in the middle ...

There’s one species of wildflower that none of us wants to see. It’s the “toilet paper flower,” and it’s unfortunately all too common along Colorado trails and dispersed roadside campsites where there ...

A dopey burglar was caught after leaving a dog poop footprint behind at a crime scene. Brian Harold, 20, was foiled after the distinctive marked muck was left at a home he was trying to burgle. The ...

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 ...

While hiking in the woods, it’s not uncommon to come across a pile of animal waste. It’s gross, to be sure, but identifying scat is actually one of the easiest ways to keep yourself safe from ...