When shooting the rapids is scary, it's probably best to shoot the rapids. | Continue reading
A company that once employed Interior Secretary Bernhardt plans to drain springs below Mojave Nat Monument | Continue reading
The summer issue of Adventure Journal features our report on the women-driven revolution in female-owned outdoor brands, the first new way to surf waves in 3,000 years, diary from a record-setting thru-hiker, the outdoor culture's hardest-working artist, the ethics of angling whe … | Continue reading
Gorgeous Joshua Tree cabin comes with a fire lookout tower and all the desert you can look at. | Continue reading
Great rafting, uncrowded trails, and big mountain views combine with cultural resources like petroglyphs make the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness a treasure. | Continue reading
Jerzy Kukuczka was the second climber to scale all 14 of the world’s highest mountains, but that’s not why he’s remembered as one of the greatest alpinists of all time. It’s the way he climbed them. His resume is mind-boggling. In just eight years he climbed all 14 of the world’s … | Continue reading
Skies above national parks are an unregulated Wild West, allowing nearly unlimited air tours and all the noise they bring. That might finally be changing. | Continue reading
If you’ve purchased a backpack in the last three or four years, you probably have a very good pack. Even budget packs are better than most top of the line packs were 15 years ago. Unless you’re radically switching packing strategies from ultralight to kitchen sink or vice versa, … | Continue reading
Say hello to van life without the commitment, liability, insurance, maintenance, storage, cost. | Continue reading
Don't let detractors get you down. Hiking off-trail and adhering to LNT practices can be done—plus off-trail hiking offers the best rewards. | Continue reading
Go behind the scenes and below decks with the adventure seekers who pilot the world's biggest ocean-crossing ships. | Continue reading
The former concessionaire got $12 million for the marks, but the Ahwahnee is the Ahwahnee again. | Continue reading
Pedal-assisted bikes are getting smaller, lighter, and more ubiquitous. Is it time to bite the bullet? | Continue reading
Staffing has dropped 20 percent since 2005, while visits have skyrocketed. Yikes. | Continue reading
People thought the photo was a fake, but the meltwater is due to a European heat wave that spike temps to 114º in France. | Continue reading
But the peak is loaded with rookies and critics decry the 'Everestization' of the Savage Mountain | Continue reading
Anya Violet and Ashmore Ellis have already gotten more than 8,000 women camping via bikes and they're Babes Ride Out program is only growing. | Continue reading
Wild coyotes in urban spaces can bring a bit of the outdoors to the concrete jungle—but why are their populations growing in places like San Francisco? | Continue reading
You're not ready for 'Walden' until you're ready. Once it grips you, it stays with you forever. | Continue reading
Carl Akeley was the father of taxidermy and museum dioramas, as well as a hunter, inventor, and conservationist. Lots of contradictions, but he led an astounding life. | Continue reading
The architect wanted a simple affordable home away from home. So she designed one that doesn't require wealth to afford. Now, to get one of these to the States. | Continue reading
There's about to be a new industry standard for rating a sleeping pad's insulation. Here is how it works and what you should know. | Continue reading
What if you didn't need to drive to trailheads anymore? | Continue reading
Riding bikes for fun is a privilege, taking it for granted is the stoke-killer. | Continue reading
Last year, I conducted a memorable interview with French environmentalist Claire Nouvian. She’d just been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work with BLOOM Association, a non-profit that uses scientific data and public outreach to effectively dismantle d … | Continue reading
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” | Continue reading
Climbing groups have released the first-ever State of Climbing Report, quantifying who's climbing, where, and how much money they're spending. | Continue reading
Hint: It begins and ends with something that would make the Lorax proud. | Continue reading
With each successful expedition, the Sherpani of Nepal prove to thousands of young girls the world over, there is no summit out of reach. | Continue reading
The USDA’s Wildlife Services program slaughters millions of wild animals every year — including endangered species. It doesn’t have to. | Continue reading
Climbers Sasha DiGiulian and Tommy Caldwell have partnered with the Access Fund and Native Outdoors to make a film about the ethics of recreating on and being part of conservation efforts with native lands. In this short, they meet up with folks like Len Necefer of Native Outdoor … | Continue reading
We're putting our resources where they can have the biggest impact fighting climate change. | Continue reading
A Colorado bear has decided breaking into cars is no longer enough. | Continue reading
When Dawid Andres first dreamed of crossing the South American continent with his half-brother Hubert Kisiński, the idea of bolting bikes to pontoons and descending the Amazon River was the furthest thing from his mind. The plan in the beginning was more sensible: Bike from the P … | Continue reading
The human urge to outmatch nature is age-old. | Continue reading
Fly fishing may conjure images of golden sunlight bathing a cool Montana stream, twinkling on a late summer afternoon, and yeah, that’s part of it, so is wading into frigid glacial melt during a snowstorm. In Iceland. | Continue reading
Just a couple best friends bombing singletrack. The dog is nice enough to let the human eat his dust for a bit, too. Kind-heareted soul. | Continue reading
Why should she apologize for being stronger or faster than a man? She shouldn't. | Continue reading
Don't want to schlep black beans in the backcountry? Dehydrated flakes are light and still make an awesome soup. | Continue reading
Under President Donald Trump, federal agencies have chipped away at the reviews and permitting required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws. Earlier this month, the Forest Service proposed a significant overhaul of th … | Continue reading
Simple: A few minutes of tremendous summit views. That’s it. That’s all. | Continue reading
They ran out of gas and water, faced snowstorms and tornados, and were arrested for wearing men's clothes, in their great cross-country motorcycle adventure. | Continue reading
There are more than 3,000 stories in Adventure Journal’s archives, most of which are evergreen, and occasionally we put the best of them back on the home page for new readers to see.—Ed. Have you ever fantasized about being a fire lookout, or living in a cabin high in the mountai … | Continue reading
When a life of climbing isn't quite enough to fill the soul anymore, what comes next? | Continue reading
If you want to figure out how climate change is affecting the world’s highest places you have to go up there yourself to find out. So scientists like John All, who directs Western Washington University’s Mountain Environments Research Institute, spend weeks at a time at the world … | Continue reading
When I took a post-college job as a seasonal ranger at Grand Teton National Park 23 years ago, I noticed right away that my “Smokey Bear” hat carried some serious emotional baggage. As I later wrote in my book, “Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature,” pa … | Continue reading
It’s that time of year when, in so much of the country, the heat of the afternoon is broken by raging thunderstorms. Sped up video breathes life into storm clouds to the point you can nearly feel the barometric pressure drop in the room when watching. | Continue reading
Eight decades later, historians still search for clues to Earhart's disappearance. | Continue reading