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Tips and Tricks For a Successful Outdoor Adventure With Your Toddler premium
By:  Brendan Place     Before kids, getting outdoors was simple. Put on your boots, pack your bag, and hit the trails. With toddlers, getting outdoors can be a little more complicated, but with the right planning and preparation you can make your adventures exciting and stress free. You’ll have to wait a few years […]
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June 7, 2018
4 Foolproof Ways to Press PLAY on the Summer Camping Season premium
As much as we love the other three seasons, we have to admit we’ve got a special weakness for summer. Because even though most of us are long past the “school’s out” days—or rather, it’s our KIDS that are gearing up for 9 days of barefoot, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed joy—we still get a little frisson […]
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May 22, 2018
4 Family Camping Hacks to Save Your Sanity premium
(and Put More PLAY in Your Day)     If we’re honest with ourselves, and your friends at Kelty always are, kids can be pretty gnarly. Even the most devoted parent can admit that there are certain situations in which their little ones’ big personalities are maybe…how to say…a lot do deal with. And family […]
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5 Ways to Turn Kelty Ditch Day into a 3-Day Weekend premium
  ICYMI: your friends at Kelty have officially declared Friday, April 27 “Ditch Day.” So start brewing up some epic excuses (colonoscopy? hostage situation? shark attack?), because your boss ain’t gonna see your pretty face for a single minute on that fateful Friday—you’ll be anywhere but inside, doing anything but sitting around. Here are 5 […]
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Take your April Fool’s Day Pranks to the Next Level: Camping premium
The man, the myth, the legend himself: Dick Kelty 5 Amazing April Fool’s Day Pranks to Play On Your Campmates If you’re doing life right, there’s at least one serial prankster in your circle of friends. You know the type: every gathering presents opportunities to pull one over on somebody new, and every moment that passes between […]
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March 21, 2018
Spring Fever: 6 Activities to Help You Forget it’s Still Cold AF premium
You guys! It’s officially spring! That means we’re *THIS CLOSE* to having survived the short, dark days of winter…and well on our way to reversing our Vitamin D deficiencies with lots of QT outside. However, there’s a reason poet T.S. Eliot tapped April, and not February, as the “cruelest month.” Despite the lengthening days and deceptively […]
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March 13, 2018
Frozen Dead Guy Days 2018-Unicorns & Rainbows premium
Polar Plunge Jumps:  Coffin Racing:  Kelty in Unicorn Onesies:  Freezing your @#$ off at Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival:  And It. Was. Awesome. There’s a tiny town in Colorado, just up the hill from Kelty HQ, where one weekend every year, the town swells by 20,000 quirky, costumed fans ready to do just about anything to party it […]
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February 8, 2018
6 Creative Ways to Slay Valentine’s Day premium
6 Creative Ways to Slay Valentine’s Day Whoa there, Romeo! Not every girl wants to spend Valentine’s Day spruced up in her stiletto best, slogging through the inflated prix fixe menu whilst gazing into your oh-so-soulful eyes. (Okay, your eyes are kind of dreamy.) But here at Kelty, we believe that any date worth his […]
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4 Ways to Get Your Fill of Chill this Winter premium
4 Ways to Get Your Fill of Chill this Winter With California in ashes, Colorado staring wistfully at its flake-free skies and the entire East Coast digging out from last week’s insane snow siege, the weather so far this year has been, shall we say, not exactly normal. But instead of crying over spilled powder, […]
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November 14, 2017
Camping, Friendsgiving style. premium
‘Tis the season…for camping with friends.  The days are shorter and cooler, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate a national holiday outside. No not that holiday, the other national holiday: friendsgiving. Kelty combined two of our favorite things on a recent trip: camping and friendsgiving. It’s not too late to pack up the tents, […]
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May 2, 2017
Everything You Need to Know About Colorado Public Lands Day premium
What is Colorado Public Lands Day? In 2016, Colorado became the first state in the nation to establish a holiday dedicated to our public lands. Every year, starting with 2017, the 3rd Saturday in May will be set aside as Colorado Public Lands Day.   Why is CO PLD historic/significant? Colorado boasts over 24 million […]
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