Erik Vadas-Gauden

The one who started Outfarer

Outfarer started with Erik, who launched it with a few passionate friends. A nature lover first and foremost, he writes about the topics closest to his heart and reviews a good chunk of the magazine, including every survival and bushcraft article before it’s published.

Passionate, literary-minded, and very sociable, Erik loves meeting fellow enthusiasts, and a good laugh. Nature comes first: he observes birds, animals, and plants with the naked eye, through binoculars, or with a spotting scope, goes stargazing, and practices nature photography, right up to stalking wildlife with a camera.

He hikes, takes walks in the woods, goes backcountry camping in a tent or under a tarp, goes glamping too, and travels by RV. He’s passionate about survival and bushcraft: shelters, fire, navigation. His other pursuits include geocaching, archery and sport shooting, open-water swimming and freediving, paintball, airsoft, and scouting. He has gone skydiving and done several extreme sports, including parkour, and he has traveled widely.

On Outfarer, he writes regularly about topics of his choosing and shares what he’s learned firsthand. He reviews survival and bushcraft articles as a priority, always before they’re published, along with those on nature and the night sky, observation and optics, camping, backcountry camping, and camper vans, and outdoor activities like archery or geocaching. Once he has reviewed an article, “Reviewed by Erik Gauden” appears in its byline.

His editorial line, which is also the magazine’s: open, cited sources, rules read in their current version, and safety first. A story is always told by the person who lived it, and an opinion is presented as just that, an opinion. He’s been part of the team since the magazine launched in 2026.

To suggest a topic or report a mistake, write to the editorial team from the contact page: we will pass your message along.

Topics

Survival and bushcraft, Nature and the night sky, Observation and optics, Camping, backcountry camping and camper vans, Archery, airsoft and geocaching

Languages

French, English, German, and several other languages