How many vegetables can Henry Cordeal fit in a Vitamix? More than you think. Watch this veteran Kooch-i-ching staff man turn his blender up to 11 as he teaches you how to make a nourishing green smoothie.

Is Andy Howell kissing a stick? No, he’s just testing it for moisture—one of several skills that this Kooch-i-ching staff man will teach you in “The Art of Batoning,” a masterclass in splitting wood with a knife. Be sure to wear closed-toe shoes when you try this at home!

A lot of sweating and swearing take place on a portage, and sometimes bugs try to chew on your neck the entire way across a swampy expanse, but the true spirit of our experience involves using teamwork, along with grit and determination, and then laughing when it is all over.

When Brandon Stanton, author of the popular blog Humans of New York, put out a call for “quarantine stories” last month, he received thousands of responses from around the world. One of those responses was from Rosie Ecker.

From beautiful Salt Lake City, Kooch-i-ching climbing instructor Michael Martinez shows you how to do a handstand. Don’t forget to stretch!

“We all know that feeling on [a] trip after a long, hard morning of endless paddling and wet portaging…and then your trip head announces that you are going to be stopping and making tuna melts. Although I cannot replicate that feeling, we can make a dang delicious tuna melt.”

From her home in Mexico, Ogichi staff woman Teresa Baños shows you how to transform a boring white T-shirt into a tie-dyed masterpiece in just a few simple steps.

Back by popular demand, Alex Ernst shows you how to tie four useful knots in this video: the bowline, the slip knot, the square knot and the timber hitch.

Nice day for a paddle indeed! Except that in this video, Alex uses an ice hook—not a paddle—to maneuver his canoe across a semi-frozen lake in Maine.