Hunting Numbers Are Down—So What Does That Mean for Conservation Funding?

Gun sales are way up, but fewer Americans are hunting than ever, which raises hard questions about conservation funding being tied to guns and ammo sales. | Continue reading


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Yosemite Reservations Required All Summer Now, Booking Opens March 23

Get those fingers clicking. | Continue reading


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Pack Burro Racing, the State Sport of Colorado, Still Going Strong

Easily one of the top three strangest official state sports. | Continue reading


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Graeme and His Hand-Built $13k Cabin

We're not tired of DIY cabin films and we're pretty sure you aren't either. | Continue reading


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A New Northwest Anthology Finds Both Terror and Magic in the Darkness

‘Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses from the Gloomy Northwest’ explores landscapes and life from the Inland Northwest to the Pacific. | Continue reading


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Going the Eggstra Mile

Bikepacking and scrambled eggs make for excellent weekends. | Continue reading


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The Right Way to Store Winter Gear for the Summer

Hey, your skis, Gore-Tex, and avie gear need some TLC, and you have plenty of time to do it now. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Drop Waterfalls Not Bombs: Outdoor Companies Rally to Ukraine Relief

We often struggle to grasp the human impact of something like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine until the suffering we see on television and social media is distilled into something we can understand. For me, that moment came last week, when an image of a kayak in the sky blue and sun … | Continue reading


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Gravel: A Love Letter

A blast through gravel cycling's past. | Continue reading


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That Time the Explorer’s Club ‘Served’ Eons-Old Mammoth Meat

In 1951, members of the much venerated, celebrated, ballyhooed, and, in more recent years, viewed with a much more critical eye, New York Explorer’s Club, hosted a dinner during which they claimed to serve prehistoric mammoth meat recovered from below a glacier. A man named Doug … | Continue reading


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Organize Your Sh*t With Luno’s Terrific Seatback Organizer

Stores everything you want stored. | Continue reading


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Easy to Make Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Overnight Oats

Author, food lover, and traveler Jen Sotolongo is a whiz at whipping up vegan recipes that can be made just as easily at a campsite as in a fully stocked kitchen. She recently spent a few years bike touring Europe and South America with her partner, building recipes along the way … | Continue reading


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Barack Obama Is the Voice of a New National Park Doc Series

President Obama protected more federal lands than any US president before him, so it makes sense he’d narrate a new national parks docuseries about the absolute natural wonders these parks are. | Continue reading


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After a Near-Disastrous Winter, Vail Resorts Raising Wages and Opportunities

Vail Resorts learned from the frustration of its guests and, more importantly, its employees. | Continue reading


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Fjällraven Mëëts Spëcialized In Rare Colläb

Durable and cool? We're in. | Continue reading


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‘Utahlorado’ Is An Idea For A Mega-State Of Awesomeness

Dear States of Utah and Colorado: Hey, so you know what would be cool? If Utah and Colorado became one giant state called “Utahlorado.” I know we’ve spent a lot of time comparing the two-who has better skiing, who has better climbing, whatever-so obviously the best way to settle … | Continue reading


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The Stumbling Cheetah

Can the cheetah outrun the livestock farmers who despise it? | Continue reading


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Here’s What Bike Shop Owners Think About Servicing DTC Bikes

Apprehensive about bringing your DTC bike into a local bike shop for repair? Don't be. | Continue reading


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Very Cool: Repair Your Own Primus Stove With Free Replacement Parts

Zen and the Art of Backpacking Stove Maintenance. | Continue reading


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I Can’t Find My Grocery Store As Well As Frank Worsley Guided Shackleton

When Shackleton’s lost ship, The Endurance, was found earlier this month, it was astonishing. Not just because it was lost for more than a century and is an enduring icon of heroism in expeditionary history, but because it was just a few miles from where the ship’s captain and na … | Continue reading


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A Whole Lotta Public Land Is ‘Landlocked’ and Inaccessible

16 million acres of public lands are surrounded by private lands with no access for the public who owns it. | Continue reading


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For the Planet’s Sake and Our Own, We Should Let Rivers Run Free

By removing aging dams, we can restore freshwater ecosystems, support Indigenous communities, and improve public safety. | Continue reading


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Meet the Newest Inductees to the California Outdoors Hall of Fame

Normally, we wouldn’t necessarily cover the induction of regional luminaries into a state’s outdoor hall of fame, but this 2022 class of the California Outdoor Hall of Fame is a stunner. We’re publishing the COHOF statement for the class of 2022 here in its entirety. -Ed. *** A 1 … | Continue reading


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Climbing Again After a Big Fall

Rannveig Aamodt fell 50 feet down during a climb. She broke…everything. Doctors told her “good luck” when it came to walking again. Aamodt told them to jus | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

This Is, Officially, the Volkswagen ID Buzz Electric Bus—Really

After what has felt like 50 years of waiting, VW finally reveals their new electric microbus. | Continue reading


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SAR Rescues Same Hiker Twice Two Days in a Row in Arizona

If at first you don't succeed, uh, don't succeed again? | Continue reading


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Al Faussett Never Met a 100-Foot Falls He Wouldn’t Run in a Dugout Log

He plunged down any thundering mass of whitewater he could find, all in early 20th-century handmade boats. | Continue reading


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Raise a Glass to the Trailbuilders

We'd be lost without them. Literally. | Continue reading


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Shackleton’s Long-Lost Ship, ‘The Endurance,’ Has Been Found

Greetings, old friend. | Continue reading


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The Birth of Cuban Surfing Is Happening Now

A Cuban surf culture rises. | Continue reading


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How Good Can a $900 Gravel Bike Be? The State All-Road 4130 Weighs In

A three-digit price for a bike that you can actually enjoy in 2022? | Continue reading


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Here’s a Sneak Peek at the Spring Issue of Adventure Journal in Print

SUBSCRIBERS! If you need to change your address, do it now. | Continue reading


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Are Outdoorsy People Nicer Than Indoorsy People?

The answer may surprise you. Actually, no, it won't surprise you, because you're smart and intuitive, and, by the way, you look great today... | Continue reading


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Naked Ski Day? Naked Ski Day

The reddest of cheeks. | Continue reading


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Giving Up Everything to Do Nothing

The life of luxury takes many forms. | Continue reading


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Giving Forever Chemicals in Ski Wax the Boot

The ski industry wrestles with eliminating toxic waxes from the slopes. | Continue reading


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Let’s Not Squander the Miracle of a Wild Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park turns 150 years old this month — a milestone truly worth celebrating. | Continue reading


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The Last Ski Maker in Scotland

The life of a wooden ski maker in Scotland looks pretty darn sweet. | Continue reading


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Kyiv Cyclists Are Still Riding Much to the Chagrin of Anti-Cyclists

Sometimes you just have to laugh. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

The Rise, Fall, and Fabulous Return of: Ski Ballet

For your weekend, or anytime, viewing pleasure. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

The Greatest Grand Canyon Speed Runs, Ranked (Not By Speed)

Last week I lost the Grand Canyon permit lottery for the twelfth year running, which got me thinking about the great sneaks of Grand Canyon history. Among them was the late Fletcher Anderson’s solo descent in about 1977. The run trip took Anderson about 49 hours, which at the tim … | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

REI Employees Successfully Vote to Unionize

The vote comes after a contentious back and forth with company leadership. | Continue reading


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Pioneering (and Obsessive) Grand Canyon Explorer Harvey Butchart

Generations of Canyon rats owe their beta to this tireless, curious, radical man. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Get Paid $20k as President of the ‘Loam and Gravel Society’

Ride, film, get paid. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Walking Meditation Sounds Pretty Cool

For Thich Nhat Hanh, the late Vietnamese monk who popularized mindfulness in the West, walking was not simply a way to get from one place to another, or an activity to be reserved for a perfect forest path. It could be a profound contemplative practice putting people in touch wit … | Continue reading


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Curried Chicken With Chickpeas and Rice

Save this one for a colder weather backpacking trip; it will ward off the evening chill and give you plenty of energy to stay warm in your sleeping bag all nigh | Continue reading


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The Inspiration and Obsession of Fly Fishing

When his father died, Jeff Davis couldn’t have imagined he’d build on his on father’s obsession with fly fishing to the point of starting his own fly fishing business, but that’s exactly what ended up happening. Going through his father’s decades-old collection of flies and angli … | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

A Short Review of a Great New Flat Pedal Mountain Bike Shoe

Simple, sturdy, ankle-protecting wonders. | Continue reading


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