Bikepacking trip through Italy you say? Where do we sign up? | Continue reading
28 miles per day for 7 straight years. | Continue reading
The question we've all been asking. | Continue reading
Six of nine members make history. | Continue reading
The first American woman in Antarctica helped her husband—and the bickering all-male crew—establish the fist American base in Antarctica. | Continue reading
Letting nothing stop her. | Continue reading
For decades, the Adventure Cycling Association’s (ACA) Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (1998) was THE cross-country route for riders looking for a long-distance epic across spectacular backcountry scenery. Then, in 2017, the Western Wildlands Route, plotted by Bikepacking Roots, … | Continue reading
Every year, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis adds up the dollar value of all the stuff we outdoorsy folk buy. In 2020 it came to $689 billion, which is a lot of cash and, by extension, a lot of stuff. And if you think about it (or more to the point, even if you […] | Continue reading
Three decades ago Kevin Wilson was in a car accident that left him partially paralyzed. After long bouts of depression and alcoholism, it was skiing, and his own power of will, that saved him. | Continue reading
The ageless one, for real. | Continue reading
The most beautiful terror. | Continue reading
She had content marketing dialed before content marketing was a thing. | Continue reading
Age is just a number, so they tell us anyway. | Continue reading
She's grizzly bear 399, and wherever she wanders with her four cubs, there's bound to be trouble. | Continue reading
On the water, healing. | Continue reading
Sometimes it is so hard to stuff stuff into stuff sacks. | Continue reading
When hollow surfboards were king, nobody surfed like this. | Continue reading
While fees provide vital resources to our underfunded national parks and forests, they create a barrier to access for low-income users. | Continue reading
When a young man named Andre, who loved the good life outdoors, died at a too young age, his parents wanted something more for his body than a coffin. They chose a beautiful ponderosa as his final resting place. This is their story. | Continue reading
A cabin perched at 7,000 feet in the North Cascades? Yeah, sounds good to us. | Continue reading
In a career full of superhuman stories, Charlie Porter’s 1975 climb on Baffin Island’s Mt. Asgard stands out: He took a month just to ski in all his gear to the base of the route, lashing a long pole across his pack in case he fell into a crevasse. He soloed up the wall over […] | Continue reading
Who needs hero dirt when there's hero, uh, pavement. | Continue reading
Chacos schmockos. Tevas schmevas. It’s Bedrocks our feet crave. There’s just something about the minimalist-ish (depending on style) Vibram soles and the toe thong strap that makes these things work. And look vaguely exotic. They’re not chunky, they don’t look like your aunt Gert … | Continue reading
These off-road driving instructors practice what they teach on their overlanding trip around the Americas. | Continue reading
North Dakota's underrated gem. | Continue reading
The "Smartest" off-roader many can buy. | Continue reading
Yes. Simply, yes. | Continue reading
Linking protected areas from Yellowstone to the Yukon shows the value of conserving large landscapes, not just isolated parks and preserves | Continue reading
One of the most wild places in America is awfully close to one of the least wild. | Continue reading
For the past month, masked and armed men have been stealing high-value mountain bikes at gunpoint in the hills east of Oakland, Calif. There have been at least five such incidents in recent weeks, though it’s not unheard of for armed robberies of bikes to take place in the area i … | Continue reading
Hello. It’s time for your moment of calm. You are a steadfast rock in the middle of a tempestuous sea. You are the summit of Mt. Everest in the spring monsoon. You are riding toward the La Sal Mountains of Utah, where cool air and shade await. Ahhhhh. Photography by Sinuhe Xavier | Continue reading
Beat the lines at national parks by creating your own homegrown park. | Continue reading
It doesn't get a whole lot more badass than changing the world with the stroke of a pen. | Continue reading
There are lessons here about hubris and weight distribution. | Continue reading
Imagine the possibilities. | Continue reading
Hydration bladders get full of germs far quicker than you'd like, so here's a step-by-step guide to cleaning yours. | Continue reading
Ukraine, in far better days. | Continue reading
Sanmao made good on her lifelong dream to travel the Sahara and in so doing inspired millions of Asian women to expand their worlds. | Continue reading
How extreme can sitting be? | Continue reading
When plastic becomes the dominant object on remote beaches. | Continue reading
The Hudski Doggler returns to doggle even harder. | Continue reading
Ten bills in Congress would add conservation protections to 7,000 miles of river to safeguard drinking water, biodiversity and recreation. | Continue reading
A Texan climbing scene you're gonna like. | Continue reading
Extra big water bottle cage? Check. Spider web fender offers? Double check. | Continue reading
As if the world wasn't already an endless series of punches in the face. | Continue reading
There's more to thru-hike prep than route planning and packing. Here, learn from our mistakes. | Continue reading