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Picking the best backpacking food for your trip will largely come down to personal preference. These picks are a great place to start.

Lighter doesn't mean worse: Save your back and still get a great sleep at night by packing one of the best ultralight tents on the market.

These models will have you jumping for joy as you hike.

Upgrade one of the most essential items in your survival kit.

From sandwiches to wings to quarter birds (no tenders allowed), here are PoMo’s picks.

A sad farewell to the oxtail French dip sandwich—get yours before December 19.

Skip Black Friday this year and spend your morning at Forest Park, Mt Tabor, and elsewhere

Portland Monthly Lake lovers still have to wait to rent a boat at Olallie Lake Resort (above), which has a tentative open date for 2021 of July 22, as recovery work continues after last years wildfires.  Photograph by Isaac Lane Koval Oregon is defined by water, from the mighty Pacific at our western edge to the rivers that separate us from Washington and Idaho. But those aren’t our only H 2O treasures. Tucked along Oregon’s mountain spine are countless alpine pools beckoning for s...

The other Eagle Creek offers a wild, cathedral forest with scarcely another human in sight. By Benjamin Tepler 3/16/2021 at 12:30am Published in the March 2021 issue of Portland Monthly Early this year, Eagle Creek in the Columbia River Gorge—one of the most visited trails in the state—reopened after a three-year lockdown. In 2017, the trail was ground zero for the eponymous wildfire that blazed through 50,000 acres of waterfall corridor. This winter, amid rebuilt bridges and sproutin...

Is there any dish as classic and as frequently riffed upon as fried chicken? From Southern-style bone-in chicken to Cambodian wings to creative, towering sandwich creations, there’s fried chicken for every palate in Portland. Our top picks (appearing here in alphabetical order) spanned all these genres, but they all have two major criteria in mind: maximal juice and crunch. That means that no tenders or nuggets made the cut; nor did any fried chicken sandwiches made with chicken breast...