About a month ago, caught in a surprise rainstorm on my gravel bike, I undertook an unscheduled test of the breaking angle of my 42mm tires. In short, though I | Continue reading
The rhythm (of nature) is gonna get you. | Continue reading
Yeah, the Bearclaw TOWMAK has fat tires and drop bars, what of it? | Continue reading
Hello, everyone! Adventure has been my escape and refuge over the last six months and I'm guessing it's been that way for you. Adventure Journal, too, is a re | Continue reading
Toss your hat in the ring to paddle through some of the most beautiful country on earth. | Continue reading
Last year, combing the nearly impenetrable jungles of the Colombian Amazon, archaeologists discovered an astonishing series of rock paintings, thousands upon th | Continue reading
A 60-something surfer and cr | Continue reading
Years ago, residing in the gritty, noisy, and hectic heart of San Francisco, I bumped into a guy from my rural Vermont childhood, Jimmy, and we made plans to go for a walk, catch up. Three evenings later, aimlessly strolling through parks and neighborhoods and industrial hinterla … | Continue reading
Last week the whole world took a serious interest in the otherwise oft-ignored southern Utah desert when a 10-foot metal monolith was discovered. That remoteness did not stop people from somehow figuring out where it was and venturing out to try to get a much closer look. And the … | Continue reading
Overlanding in a 2WD? All part of the adventure. | Continue reading
Deep-pocketed venture capital firm banks on niche audiences paying for the media that sustains their stoke. | Continue reading
https://vimeo.com/442494425 For years now, the Bogus Basin Nordic Team in Boise, Idaho, has welcomed Boise-area refugees—resettled in Idaho after being displaced elsewhere in the world—into their Nordic skiing community. It looks like an awesome program, which all began when a Bo … | Continue reading
The Monty Python icon talks about friend and mountaineer who passed away last week. | Continue reading
The rarely considered impacts on land and wildlife of the lowly fence. | Continue reading
Think snow means mothballing your bike? Nah. | Continue reading
From cowering to powering through backcountry storms. | Continue reading
Mike and I arrived at Lincoln Falls to see a dozen people spread across the base of the routes and decided to go a couple valleys over to see if another ice climb was in. We grabbed our packs and hiked a couple miles up the road to Blue Lake, postholing a little bit, to […] | Continue reading
Now's your chance to mortgage your house for an Ansel Adams print. | Continue reading
The biggest dam-removal project in American history is back on track, following an agreement last week to move ahead with demolition of four dams on the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Northern California. By securing additional state funds to guarantee the project, the agre … | Continue reading
There's Something Behind You—But What? | Continue reading
And the feud that followed them to their graves. | Continue reading
After passing with bipartisan support in August, the conservation law hits stumbling blocks. Here’s what may happen next. | Continue reading
Who needs carbon fiber ratcheting gizmos? | Continue reading
As the planet warms, Everest's roof gets a bit more breathable, according to new study. | Continue reading
Something strange is going on in remote southern Utah. Last week, wildlife officials were out flying over the desert in a helicopter, counting bighorn sheep, when something out of this world appeared among the red rock. Shiny, clearly unnatural, straight and uniform, not things m … | Continue reading
Watch this and you'll hear drum riffs on your next trail run. | Continue reading
I’m not proud of it but I found myself in a Baby Gap the other day. They sell terrific toddler clothes, what can I say. As I stood in line I noticed a rack of face masks. Dozens of them. I didn’t really think it was odd or anything until I left and saw a […] | Continue reading
Perhaps you have your eye on a little patch of land somewhere. If only a lightweight, relatively inexpensive cabin that doesn’t require a foundation, in most cases, could be shipped there easily, you could have a dream setup. Especially if that cabin was a marvel of expandability … | Continue reading
Closing the books on one of the toughest climbs in history. | Continue reading
With more than 4,000—yeah, 4,000—stories in the AJ archive, we thought it was a good time to pull one from the rafters, wipe off the dust, polish it with ou | Continue reading
What happens when ice dragons—once fearsome glaciers—are gone? | Continue reading
It's like a time capsule of intolerance. | Continue reading
Thank goodness for Cerro Torre. | Continue reading
If you're only out there on the best days, you miss a whole lot about your favorite places. | Continue reading
Might as well be a promotional video for the Alberta tourism board. | Continue reading
In a surprising move, a rush for lease oil drilling parcels to be sold in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge just before Biden's administration takes the helm. | Continue reading
A surprise big dump, a town slowed to a crawl, and learning to love the pre-skiing season. | Continue reading
There is a wave that breaks in western Ireland called Mullaghmore. No idea what that name means. No idea if the wave is surfable when it is pleasant. The footage released each winter from the place looks like this: moody, horrifying, dark, Guinness-crave-inducing. This is Conor M … | Continue reading
The mountain biking is killer bIs $10k enough to pull up roots and establish them in Northwest Arkansas? | Continue reading
A new Climate Corps could provide badly-needed work for young people while providing them with training for today’s green jobs. | Continue reading
Getting out doesn't have to mean getting way, way out. | Continue reading
Takikawa, a town on Japan’s Hokkaido island had a little bear problem. Wild bears have been increasingly wandering into town, possibly because of a shortage of acorns in the surrounding forests. Or perhaps they just like the towns architecture. Either way, locals are concerned ab … | Continue reading
Surely somewhere in your home you have a drawer stuffed with national park ephemera. Brochures, maps, postcards, maybe. There is something vaguely amusement park like about national parks in the sense that they have an aura that within the boundaries of the park, there is magic. … | Continue reading
What happens when style is removed from the outdoor equation? Pretty much nothing, really. | Continue reading
Last week we published an essay from Alex Mason about how she left her office job to hike the PCT, which inspired her to leave the office behind altogether (Get | Continue reading
It's expensive, but not AS expensive as first reported. | Continue reading
The Patrouille des Glaciers is a legendary ski race through the Alps, put on by the Swiss Armed Forces. The Faction ski team wanted to scope the terrain without racing, and maybe sample some of the big peaks in the area along the way. This teaser is a taste of | Continue reading
If you’ve skied almost anywhere in North America, you’ve probably got a few of Jim Niehues’s paintings in the pockets of old parkas and bibs, or tucked away in your glove box or, if you’re no packrat, embedded in deep in some cerebral corner dedicated to happy memories. In the tr … | Continue reading