No matter where you are in the world, a new service called What3Words has assigned a three-word code that contain your exact GPS coordinates. | Continue reading
The most soothing bike mechanic videos you'll ever see and maybe fall asleep to. | Continue reading
The Arizona Scenic Trail, commonly just called the Arizona Trail, is a jewel of the Southwest. 800 miles of trail ribboning through desert and mountain, from the border of Mexico through the Sonoran Desert, and across the Grand Canyon. As the Arizona Trail Association says, it’s … | Continue reading
Looking for good, entry-level binocs? Boom. | Continue reading
Surfers around the world are remembering that, oh, yeah, this is supposed to be unserious fun. | Continue reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkamAbuuwio&feature=emb_logo Adrian Ballinger knows his way around the world's highest peaks, having spent a ton of time on | Continue reading
Once at the brink of extinction, California condors are returning to their historic mountain habitats. | Continue reading
When Zev Heuer’s high school went online in mid-March due to COVID-19, the 15-year-old from Canmore, Alberta, realized that if he finished his coursework quickly enough he could pull off his dream trip—a 1,300-mile canoe journey to his summer job at Churchill River Canoe Outfitte … | Continue reading
Roads? The Izembek doesn't need roads. | Continue reading
Do a little energy plant business, climb a massive 80-meter wall, all in the same place. | Continue reading
Meet a Diné woman whose connection with the San Juan River runs as deep as the river itself. | Continue reading
Marin updates its steel bikepacking workhorse. | Continue reading
Ford's new Bronco teaser shows the new rigs actually off-roading. | Continue reading
Rodents tried to eat my engine while camping—learn from his $4,500 misfortune. | Continue reading
Huge news for the environmental movement as two controversial pipelines projects are stopped. | Continue reading
A search of common ground reveals support across political spectrum for wilderness and access to nature. | Continue reading
Mountain climbing, swimming, trail running (pouncing), all while purring. Let’s see you try that. | Continue reading
Sped up environment regs to be the order of the day at the USFS. | Continue reading
You don’t drink just any coffee in the morning at camp. You drink third wave, fair trade, hand-harvested peaberry beans. Your camp shirt is organic wool, harvested from sheep that also drink high-end coffee. So why is your firewood shrink-wrapped mysto wood you bought at a gas st … | Continue reading
It's impossible to resist cinnamon rolls of the smoked, campsite variety. | Continue reading
I had a gear storage problem. Although I’m primarily a cyclist and hiker, I do enjoy dipping a paddle in the water from time to time and wanted a kayak of my | Continue reading
From climbing the Grand Teton in cowboy boots to forming NOLS, this man lived large and taught many. | Continue reading
We’re not normally all that interested in FKTs around here at AJ, but this video is so cool, we’ll mamk | Continue reading
Last winter’s tragedy that claimed the lives of five French tourists and their Québec guide in the icy waters of Lac Saint-Jean during a snowmobile safari shook people on both sides of the Atlantic. It also rattled the tourism industry in Québec. The Québec government had already … | Continue reading
If in busting out your tent, you bust a tent pole, we have you covered. | Continue reading
One man's trash is another man's surfboard. | Continue reading
If you love cycling sandals, Shimano has a treat for you. | Continue reading
It took moving east to appreciate the freedom of lots and lots of public lands. | Continue reading
Jonathan Kusel owns three pickups and a 45-foot truck for hauling woodchip bins. He operates a woodchip yard and a 35-kilowatt biomass plant that burns dead trees, and he runs a crew marking trees for loggers working in national forests. Those are a lot of blue-collar credentials … | Continue reading
Brand spanking new gravel route across Vermont, anyone? | Continue reading
Aramark's operations boss at Yosemite Valley bogeys in very public fashion. | Continue reading
Dear all you parents and maybe someday parents out there: I am standing before you as indisputable proof that children become a product of what you expose them | Continue reading
Ray Collins spent most of his working life as a coal miner deep underground near Bulli, Australia, until he blew out his knee and could no longer perform at the same intense physical level. He used his workman’s comp to buy a camera and water housing and turned to the ocean he kn … | Continue reading
Don't know much about this guy other than that his name is Jeff, he bought a 2011 Honda Fit a couple years back, wrecked it, then figured, what the hell, let' | Continue reading
Eat and drink like a king on your next backpacking trip with these simple tips. | Continue reading
Until I moved my classes outdoors, I didn’t realize how much dealing with societal challenges was slowly breaking so many of us down. Racism has deep, long-lasting implications on social, emotional, and physical health. Unless you’ve experienced it many times, you wouldn’t really … | Continue reading
Join a science expedition researching climate change at the highest point on the planet. | Continue reading
If you have 5 minutes and a few ounces of space in your backpack, you can have tiramisu for dessert anywhere your legs can carry you. | Continue reading
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Could Irvine and Mallory have summitted Everest? And what happened to Irvine's body? We talked to Ozturk about his new project to find out. | Continue reading
Bikepacking Roots is a non-profit dedicated to all things bikepacking. We’ve covered them before, primarily as they announced their Wild West Route, a 2,700-mile expedition-level bikepacking route from north to south of the Mountain West. We profiled co-founder Kurt Refsnider as … | Continue reading
Behold, the war cry that has conquered entire square inches of desert sand. | Continue reading
Intrepid adventurer and inspiration to many, Madsen perished midway through her attempt to row across the Pacific. | Continue reading
At some point soon, the House will take up passage of the Great American Outdoors Act, passed itself by the Senate last week. The Senate vote was the major hurdle, the bill is expected to be approved by the House. Though, they might be tempted to make changes. Pork will maybe be … | Continue reading
Musings on the strange feelings you get when curled up in a car, alone, miles and miles from anywhere. | Continue reading
As the country wrestles with removing monuments to slave owners, one national park grapples with name changes of a popular attraction. | Continue reading
Mark Rober is a one-man Myth Busters meets Bill Nye, using science and video to explore such elemental and existential questions such as What If All The Toilets | Continue reading