About Long Days
Time well-spent.
Long Days is an independent magazine that celebrates backcountry camping in all its beautiful forms.
Backcountry camping, by our definition, is camping that you can’t do with a car (or motorcycle or truck or motorboat or or or). Our favorite is by canoe, but Long Days also celebrates and features stories about people who hike and bikepack. The modes of getting there are different, but the experiences of being there, we believe, have a lot in common (and provide an opportunity to learn from one another).
Humans have been sleeping outside since we’ve existed, taking shelter from and living with the elements since way before we ever built permanent shelters. This magazine is a celebration of sleeping outdoors and all the unique feelings, experiences and stories that come along with it.
We publish twice a year (for now), in June and December.
A note on canoe-camping specifically: Canoeing, while not unique to Canada, is a fundamental part of our precolonial history. So is the place where this magazine is created, which is on the traditional territory of the the Haudenosaunee, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, the Neutral Peoples, the Anishinabewaki and the Mississauga. Canoes are a fundamental part of Indigenous history in North America and we honor that history in each issue.
About the Founder
My name’s Chase.
I’ve done a lot of things professionally: journalist, comms professional, marketer. I’ve spent my professional life mostly behind a screen.
But in leisure, I’ve always done one thing that I truly loved: camping.
Growing up, our family vacations were done on an extreme budget. Weekend trips to some place within driving distance. We had a cheap Walmart tent and brought blankets from home as our bedding. We cooked on the fire—no Coleman stove in those early days. We went to bed when the summer sun went down and woke up when the tent got too hot to stay wrapped up.
No GameBoy. No TV. Just me, my folks and the great outdoors.
This magazine is an ode to the joy of my life and if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance it’s an ode to yours, too. Thanks for coming out.
