Outdoor Camping and Hiking Tips and Recommendations

Here at Northwest Outlet, we have a long family tradition of hiking & camping. Here you’ll find great tips, gear recommendations and reviews, and a few quick lessons about how to properly hike and care for nature. We’ll cover all the broad topics like car camping, ultralight backpacking, lightweight backpacking and equipment comparisons. Our content is tailored more towards the newcomers in the hiking world, but veterans are welcome too.

Hunting Knives Guide

A hunting knife is a mandatory hunter’s tool. The trusty blade has been with us for thousands of years; it’s more of a tool for field work and building traps than a weapon. A knife is an essential camping companion that helps you whittle wood and make kindling, split branches and prepare your game meat. Choosing the best hunting knife to take on so many demanding tasks can be overwhelming. Hopefully,this guide will help you make the right decision. (more…)

By NWO|April 14th, 2020|Outdoor|

Top Affordable Camping Tents

There are four things that you take out into the wild that will make or break your camping adventure: the boots, the backpack, the sleeping bag and the tent. If any one of these critical pieces of gear fail, you might have to cut your trip short. The best camping tent needs to be trustworthy, durable, inexpensive and relatively light; and most importantly, it needs to meet all your specific outdoors needs such as housing multiple people or a family, being easy to set up, being waterproof and so on. That’s a lot of information to process. (more…)

By NWO|March 2nd, 2020|Outdoor|

Backpacking Gear Checklist

What should you bring on the hike? That’s the toughest question every new and veteran hiker has to ask himself before every hike, and simply, there’s no universal answer. Someone hiking in the desert will have a drastically different hiking gear checklist compared to someone hiking in a snowy mountain, a jungle or an arctic region. There are some common points, namely the big four items and the ten essentials are something that all hikers have to bring on their hikes.

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By NWO|February 27th, 2020|Outdoor|

Does Bear Spray Work

We’re all worried about meeting aggressive wild life when we’re out hiking. Most of the time (we’d guess at least 99.99%) wild life doesn’t bother us in the slightest, and we don’t bother it either. We’re both out there, enjoying our lives in nature and respecting each other’s boundaries and looking not to be a bother. Until that is no longer an option. Let’s take a look at some self-defense options in the wild.

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By NWO|February 19th, 2020|Outdoor|

Outdoor Clothing and Gear Brands

There’s one thing that differentiates outdoors brands from other apparel brands. Trust. They have to earn and keep our trust with high-quality, proven hiking and outdoors gear. That gear might very well save your life out on the trail, or a snowy mountain. These brands spent decades building up that trust, refining their wares and improving their performance. (more…)

By NWO|January 21st, 2020|Outdoor|

Best Gift for Hikers

Choosing a good gift is tough. We’ve been there, scratching our heads and reading blog post after blog post about how to pick a gift for a friend or family member that’s really into a hobby. It’s extra hard to pick out a gift for someone that has a hobby we know nothing about. If you’re not a hiker, camper, backpacker or an outdoors person, choosing a gift is a daunting task. There are so many gadgets, pots and pans, tents, boots, specialized clothing, knives and many other things to pick from. (more…)

By NWO|December 24th, 2019|Outdoor|

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