"Swiss" and "trailer park" are not phrases that you'd typically put together, but hey, why can't the Alps enjoy the fruits of single-wide mobile living? P | Continue reading
Standing on the Devon coast, my phone rings. “Hi James, we’d like you to look after Rothera for us. Are you happy to take the job?” “Yes, of course!” Cue a moment of panic. After an hour-long interview only that morning, I have just signed up to work in Antarctica for eighteen mo … | Continue reading
You can't find these spots without years of experience up t | Continue reading
First time the Half Dome to valley floor ski had been completed. | Continue reading
No dividend for you this year, members. | Continue reading
Kittie refused to take no for an answer when bicycle clubs tried to enforce their whites only rules. | Continue reading
Never stop never stopping. | Continue reading
One-pot camping dinners don't get much tastier, filling, or simple. | Continue reading
I attended a ranger program recently dealing with Leave No Trace. The ranger showed a picture of rock art, or “ancestral inscriptions” as archaeologists often refer to the practice. We agreed that one does not touch or otherwise deface it. Then she flashed a shot of some modern g … | Continue reading
Who needs land when you have sea? | Continue reading
Nothing quite so adventurous as visiting | Continue reading
Reflections on a life well-lived... in a van. | Continue reading
From the filter and subject, Ryan Van Duzer: “A bike puts me smack in the middle of the awesome outdoors, with my legs as the sole engine for exploration. There’s something primal about being so exposed yet so self reliant, setting the pace for my life and always moving forward.” … | Continue reading
The media acquisitions keep comi | Continue reading
War-torn as they may be, the mountains of Afghanistan offer respite. | Continue reading
68 seconds of wonder. | Continue reading
This 440-square-foot prefab will have you longing for the desert sky and open plains you never knew you needed. | Continue reading
Gear You Repair Yourself Is the Most Sustainable Gear | Continue reading
Popular installations often frame the desert as austere and inhospitable. But there are artists who look at the land differently. | Continue reading
The wave is Shipstern’s Bluff. What surfers call a “slab” because the roof of the wave is thick like a slab and tend to fall quickly toward the trough, like a slab of wet concrete. It breaks against the base of cliffs in Tasmania. When it’s | Continue reading
More hikers now missing at mysterious site of death of nine hikers 60 years ago. | Continue reading
Long before highways, before cross-country road trips were a thing, there was Bessie Stringfield. | Continue reading
Kid hauler by day, tent hauler by, uh, day. | Continue reading
Chrysler, why would you deprive us of this? | Continue reading
Five days after Muhammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri and Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto launched their summit bid on Winter K2, and more than 100 hours since they were last seen from base camp, the search for the missing climbers has ended. A fourth climber, Ali’s son Sajid Sadpara, 22, des … | Continue reading
Ride to the trail, hike the trail, descend back to the start. Bingo bango bongo. | Continue reading
The bittersweet realities of life on the road, when it wasn't your choice to begin with. | Continue reading
The firefall is, well, falling this week. | Continue reading
Letting go of expectations is hard. Enjoying what follows is easy. | Continue reading
Does something scare you? Yeah, you should probably do it. | Continue reading
One less (toy) car. | Continue reading
A new study compares snowpack across the world and offers a tool to help scientists pinpoint where this critical resource is waning — and what that means for ecosystems and economies. | Continue reading
Lots of people wouldn't consider walking down these slabs. | Continue reading
At 1 a.m. Saturday local time, three climbers were above 27,000 feet on K2, facing a technical descent in bitter cold and the accumulated fatigue of nearly 48 hours without sleep. Hours before, Bulgarian climber Antanas Skatov fell to his death lower on the mountain. Muhammad Ali … | Continue reading
This renovated barn stays true to its roots and creates a brand new home already steeped in history. | Continue reading
What can't you fit in the back of a Subaru, anyway? | Continue reading
The "Voice of the Desert," Ken Layne, brings his strange visions of a strange environment to a great little book. | Continue reading
https://vimeo.com/504073796 Doesn't really ever get old, does it, the West? No matter how many times over the mountains, the red cliffs, the chalky sands, t | Continue reading
Three base camps from the ill-fated attempt to cross Antarctica in 1914 reveal troves of historic treasure. | Continue reading
One of Alaska's greatest survival stories | Continue reading
It's time for Mystery Ranch Theater, 3000 | Continue reading
Doesn't take much really, for us to feel like we should take care of public spaces. | Continue reading
The nation's firs | Continue reading
A yummy alternative to the backpacking breakfast rut. | Continue reading
Filmmaker Graeme Jenvey | Continue reading
Sometimes instant coffee is fine. Backpacking long distances, over many days, for example. Sometimes, ancient coffee grounds that you bought for that one trip t | Continue reading
When The Man tries to squash your camping urges, there's always the wild and free sleeping poach. | Continue reading
@bikepackingsucks is one of my favorite Instagram follows. H | Continue reading