The More Stuff You Have Strapped to Your Pack, the Cooler You Look

Really, it does, so you should be that guy. Wait, are you already that guy? | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

The Head Scratching One Star Reviews for National Parks

Some people are just impossible to please. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Are There Any Real Ski Towns Left in America?

Remember the scruffy, core ski town? | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

In the Mountains, It Need Not Be Lonely at the Top (Because There Are Pikas)

A climb in the Cascades to hear the voices of American pikas living at the edge of crisis. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Disabled and Way More Than Able in the Outdoors

Meet Vasu Sojitra, your new fave outdoor athlete. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

How to Embrace the Suck and Enjoy Winter Trail Running

It's hard, it's cold, it's magic. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

In a Minnesota Park, Cabins in the Sky Are There for the Community

Built by the community, for the community. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Did You Know Colorado Has a Banana Belt?

There’s a special slice of Colorado where the weather’s a little warmer, the winter skies a bit brighter, why, you could almost call it a banana belt. In fact, many of the locals do. Check ’em out here, monitoring the crop via bike. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

No Such Thing as a ‘Snow Day’ When Your School Bus Is This Badass

When the snow piles up and roads become treacherous, the beloved by kids and detested by parents "snow day" is declared by school districts across the norther | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Harvesting Ski Cores From Avalanche Felled Trees

When trees were knocked down by an avalanche, this ski maker put 'em to good use. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Alpinist Wanda Rutkiewicz, the First Woman On K2, Got There On Crutches

A stalled motorcycle kick-started one of the most extraordinary careers in mountaineering history. Wanda Rutkiewicz was 18 years old in 1961, a promising athlete who had attracted the attention of Poland’s Olympic volleyball coaches. Then her old Junak ran out of gas. One of the … | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Cyclist in Alaska Fights Off 500-Pound Bear After it Bit Him

Scary scene ends as well as it could for both man and bear. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

‘Dear Rider’: The Life of Jake Burton and Snowboarding’s Ascension

Jake Burton gets the docume | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

How a Bunch of Michigan Surfers (Yep!) Got Together to Save Their Sport

Imagine being a skier waiting all summer and fall for fresh powder. You obsessively check your forecast apps, check your equipment, wax your skis. Finally, that magic day arrives. You drive to the trailhead only to find a sign that says, “trail closed due to snow.” That’s how Mic … | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Lost Hiker Ignored Rescuers’ Calls Because They Came From ‘Unknown Number’

When caller ID works too well. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

In an Estonian Forest, These Megaphones Amplify the Sounds of Nature

An architecture project we love. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

I Think We Can All Agree This ‘Tacozilla’ Chinook Re-Issue Will Rock

We'll take two. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Get Those Snow Chains Ready

It pleases Ullr, after all, as do these Security Chain Super Z chains, which might be the best. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Why Are We Still So Afraid of Prescribed Burns—The ‘Good Fire’?

Despite the evidence supporting prescribed fires in the American West, policymakers are slow to put it into practice. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

‘Summit of the Gods’ Takes an Animated Approach to Everest

New Netflix animated film looks like a gorgeous and haunting ascent into the world of obsessive mountaineering. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

If You Don’t Already, You, Too, Can Learn to Love Snow Camping

Our own Shawnté Salabert, who leads wilderness courses about camping in snow, offers some advice to the cold adverse. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

A Trip, and a Bonding Moment With a Vanished Species

Exploring a remote Newfoundland island, one of the last strongholds of the extinct great auks. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Surfing When It Snows

Brrrrrr. Bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrr. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Men? Mountaineer Miriam O’Brien Underhill Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Men

She pioneered and argued for "manless" climbing in a hugely influential 1934 essay. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

In Praise (And Search) of Independent Ski Hills

Long live the indies. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Hey Toyota—Please Make More Vans Like This Heavenly Rig

We'd buy like 10 of these TownAce vans if we could, Toyota. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Finding Fury

Mt. Fury, easily in the top 10 mountain names in the U.S. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

You Can Buy a Piece of Ski Art History With a James Niehues Original

Get your hands on some of the rarest ski art out there. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Maybe We Should Rethink Those National Park Bucket List Moments

This summer saw plenty of national park visitors trying hard to work through their bucket lists -- sometimes with disastrous consequences. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

The Frozen Mysteries of Lake Baikal

The biggest lake in the world is also the strangest. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Tom Morey, Boogie Board Inventor, Dies at 86, Leaves Perfect Burial Wishes

Tom Morey was the kind of eccentric genius required to invent something as fun as the bodyboard. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

New Radiohead Music Video Flips the Script on Wildlife Rescues

In a strange way, which shouldn’t be surprising because this is Radiohead, after all, | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

‘Thanks for the Thousand Dollars, Now Go Screw Yourself’

Powdr Launches “Fast Tracks” that let you pay to skip lift lines at Lanes at Killington, Snowbird, Copper, and Mt. Bachelor. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

We Love This Shotgun Seat For the Kiddos (Fun for the Adultos Too)

Literally miles of smiles. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Total Immersion Via Bike

No better way to see homeland than with a bike. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Alfonsina Strada, The ‘Devil In A Dress’ Who Rode The World’s Toughest Tour

They don’t do bike races like they used to. Take the Giro d’Italia, one of the world’s longest and most prestigious stage races. Today, the race covers some 2,100 miles in 21 stages. The riders flash by in a brightly colored pack, with helicopters overhead and a long line of cars … | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

A ‘Slab of Misery On Wheels’ Campervan For Sale on eBay Is Wonderful Ad

This "Reminder Of ‘Terrible' Life Choices" could have been yours! | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

The Trash Down There: Keeping Lake Tahoe Blue

A non-profit has recovered four tons of garbage below the surface of beautiful Lake Tahoe—and they want more. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

The Last Mountain: The Story of Tom Ballard

Tom Ballard and his climbing partner Daniele Nardi died climbing Nanga Parbat in 2019. Ballard was the son of world-class mountaineer (and Historical Badass) Alison Hargreaves, who herself died climbing K2 many years ago. The BBC recently released a film about Ballard’s life, The … | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Elk That Had Tire Struck Around Its Neck for Two Years Is Mercifully Freed

The elk lost his antlers, but gained full range of motion from his neck. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Update on the State of Adventure Journal

Hello, everybody. I’m Steve Casimiro, the founder and editor of AJ. Also, the photo editor, copy editor, fact checker, sales and marketing director, and vp of | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

The Master Carver

Wayne Price is an Indigenous Alaskan artist who carves in the ancient traditions of the Tlingit people. In this short film, he not only carves, but forges an adze. He’s a master. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin Featured on NPR’s Fresh Air

Their new documentary chronicles the incredible rescue of 12 children trapped in an underwater cave. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Opinion: The Hero Myth of Wildland Firefighting

It’s not heroic to fight a problem that could have been averted with responsible policy. It’s tragic. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

When Bikes Were Klunkers And Denim Was Spandex

See where it all began. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

Biden to Restore Bears Ears, Other National Monuments to Pre-Trump Era Size

President Biden will sit down at a signing ceremony today to restore the size of Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (both | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

As Crowds Pile Into Parks, Officials Mull Management Options

Reservations, timed-entry and other solutions being considered. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago

1,300-Year-Old Ski Found in Norwegian Ice

It completes a pair, the first half of which was found seven years ago. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 2 years ago