We assume Vlotkamp translates to float camp, but even if, strangely it doesn’t, (yes, we know Google Translate is a thing), it’s a fitting name. The camp is a series of rafts with fairly luxe tents on them, all floating on a lake in Flanders, the Flemish region of Belgium. Paddle … | Continue reading
People are still getting too close to the animals. | Continue reading
Journalist Sarah Everts delivers a chatty, informative romp through the unusual science and history of perspiration. | Continue reading
Bikepacking and a thoughtful examination of the | Continue reading
Montgomery Atwater is one of the reason we can ski sweet, steep powder safely. | Continue reading
Feed a bear, go to jail. | Continue reading
One of surfing, and the SF counterculture scene's, very best. | Continue reading
A film about Marc-André Leclerc several years in the making, paused after his death. | Continue reading
Ah, the age-old desire to compare apples and oranges. | Continue reading
A blast from the past reinvented. | Continue reading
An ode to the sea. | Continue reading
Oh, you thought ten mile days were tough? | Continue reading
Where I live in Marin County, you still see plenty of greyhounds on road bikes flashing past on country roads, but their numbers, relative to their | Continue reading
Leave No Trace also includes messing with the rocks. | Continue reading
Francesco D’Alessio and Giorgio Frattale make excellent bikepacking films under the n | Continue reading
John Campbell of Alpine Luddites makes gear the way it should be made and is teaching students the way. | Continue reading
It took filmmaker Nicolaus Wegner fourteen months to shoot this time-lapse of some of Wyoming’s most awesome places. It will take you only seven minutes to watch. | Continue reading
When the surf is too good to flee the Bigfoot. | Continue reading
A peek into why the apparel industry is so wasteful. | Continue reading
Cliff Young became a folk hero after his legendary "tortoise and the hare" win. | Continue reading
Popular mapping app has faults after all. | Continue reading
2,660 miles, 2,660 photos. | Continue reading
We’re testing a very budget-minded gravel bike right now, the State Bicycle Co. All-Road 4130 (we’ll be reviewing this pleasant surprise in the coming weeks, but for $900, this is a wicked fun bike). It’s, despite the low price, a pretty standard drop bar gravel rig. We already l … | Continue reading
11 of Hillary's best quotes. | Continue reading
Mike DeBernardo lives in Scotland and scoots around the many munros, trails, and ice-shrouded boulders on bikes. Last winter, with indoor lives still mostly on pause, DeBarnardo started filming his bike rides as a kind of letter/time capsule to his future self. | Continue reading
First, yes, people surf in Michigan. All over the Great Lakes, in fact. Why just last week, we published this story about surfers braving the winter cold, and growing actual icicles on their faces, chasing waves in Minnesota. It should be little surprise the Great Lakes generate … | Continue reading
How the presence of humans can disturb wildlife up to half a mile away. | Continue reading
Izzy Lynch and Tessa Treadway are pro skiers so they kinda have to spend huge amounts of time deep in the mountains. They’re also single moms, both with different stories of loss, but the same story of being buoyed by the joy of teaching their | Continue reading
Don't leave the health of your climbing rope to chance. | Continue reading
Welcome to surfing's Other North Shore. | Continue reading
The 2021 Swift Campout winner looks like they have more fun on the trails than anyone. | Continue reading
A self-proclaimed "solitary son-of-a-bitch," Fletcher wrote the book on thru-hiking and wilderness survival. | Continue reading
Another one (well, three) bites the dust. | Continue reading
Simple is best. | Continue reading
Her first foray into the ultralight trekking pole tent world goes swimmingly. | Continue reading
You don't have to live in the Southwest to live Southwest. | Continue reading
A Western Australia surf session is ruled over by dolphins. | Continue reading
Eddie Bauer makes some terrific outdoor gear, and now you don't have to buy it to use it. | Continue reading
Because lighter is righter...or something. Step 7: Replace video game console with smartphone apps. | Continue reading
A centuries-old method for a great fire with minimal wood. | Continue reading
Tim Treuer might be the first person in 52 years to swim under Gregory Natural Bridge in Fifty Mile Canyon. | Continue reading
Just like you have a hard time getting rid of that old headlamp you don't use anymore, your ancestors hated tossing worn-out utensils. | Continue reading
Just a little taste of the John Muir Trail for some Monday inspo. | Continue reading
In a solar-powered factory, to boot. | Continue reading
Our REI Kingdom Cot 3 review reveals a luxurious and easy to live with bit of camp kit. | Continue reading
A forgotten offshoot of kayaking gets another day in the sun. | Continue reading
On a windy morning in March, two older surfers at LeCount Hollow Beach, on Cape Cod, look out at the gray Atlantic. They are scanning the water closest to shore for seals, with whom they increasingly have to share the frigid water, which can dip as low as 37 degrees Fahrenheit in … | Continue reading
It's the second fatal bear encounter in Montana this year. | Continue reading