This spring, L.L.B.N. wants to help you feel great out there, with gear tips and advice for heading outdoors and exploring all the possibilities of this season.

Here's a simple tip to help you stick to your goals for the new year.

Take a walk outside.

In one study, researchers found that just an hour spent walking in nature

improved participants' attention spans and memory by 20%.

If you're having trouble focusing some time outside could be the answer.

For more fun ideas, easy howtus, and inspiring stories,

visit L.L Bean.com slash guide. Oh, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is stunning in the early fall.

Summer temperatures taper off and cooler weather starts to arrive as the leaves begin to turn vibrant shades of red, yellow, and orange.

Morning fog rises up through the mountains of the Catalucci Valley, located in a more remote

and high-altitude area of the park. The early hours of the day this time of year

are peaceful, ambient, and calm. But the quietness won't last long. Eventually the

peaceful stillness will be broken by a low frequency vocalization that starts as a hum and builds up to a high-pitched scream held for several seconds, followed by a series of loud sharp sharp grunts.

The vocalizations will continue to echo through the landscape

as more and more of them joined together in a call and response chorus.

It's jarring to hear for the first time, but Park Rangers and frequent visitors are all too

familiar with the call of an Elk Bugle.

Elk Bugles are unique vocalizations emitted by male elk during the breeding season.

It's distinctive and unmistakable to those who have heard it before. It was once a sound that could be heard it before.

It was once a sound that could be heard from late August to early November throughout the United

States, from coniferous forests to semi-desert habitats.

Though certain physical characteristics varied throughout their range,

...