REI slashed prices on water bottles, coolers, cookware, camping gear, and electronics for May. Shop picks from Stanley, Yeti, Le Creuset, and OXO, starting at $5.

Along with a snug sleeping bag and other camping essentials, you'll need a lightweight, dependable tent to pitch up at night.

Ted Crookston and Russ George write in a commentary that a Cook Inlet fishing experiment is about survival — for fish and ...