We talk with Steve Rinella, hunter, writer, founder of Meateater, the tv show and podcast, about conservation and the links between hunters and non-hunters. | Continue reading
How much of 'wildness' is part of the American Dream? | Continue reading
When Californians refer to “the Ranch,” they’re traditionally talking about Hollister Ranch, a private enclave north of Santa Barbara that hide epic surf breaks (and which gave its name to the derivative “surf-inspired” clothing line from Abercrombie). In the last couple of years … | Continue reading
On December 23, 1942, Jens-Anton Poulsson skied alone across the Hardanger plateau, or Hardangervidda, in the Telemark region of Norway, one of the most hostile mountain areas in Europe. Poulsson had grown up in the town of Rjukan—a few days’ ski away—and had even built a cabin o … | Continue reading
Have you heard about the intrepid men currently attempting to cross from one side of Antarctica, passing over the South Pole, completely unsupported, dragging all their food and supplies with them? Nobody has ever successfully done this before and now two men, Colin O’Brady, a 33 … | Continue reading
Simple fact: Bicycles have never been better than they are today. As far as categories of bikes for riding off-road, we used to break things into XC, trials, and DH. Before that you either had a mountain bike (and used it for, um, everything) or you didn’t. Nowadays there are add … | Continue reading
We’re on the Klondike Fire in southern Oregon, and we’ve just completed a full day of burning—12 hours of dragging a drip torch through poison oak and yellow jackets, lighting brush and on occasion, a few of the Douglas firs and lodgepole pines amidst it. The main fire is now les … | Continue reading
If you have yet to see Free Solo, immediately after watching this short, check your local movie times to see if it’s still playing near you. It’s a breathtaking film, especially on the big screen. Your pulse will quicken and your palms will sweat even though you know Alex Honnold … | Continue reading
Dixie is the biggest national forest in Utah, spanning 170 miles across the southern reaches of the state. What’s your fancy? Dramatic red and orange canyons? Dixie’s full of ’em. High alpine lakes? Dixie’s loaded. Fields of aspens, fluttering hypnotically in the breeze? Yep, you … | Continue reading
The coolest search and rescue vehicle out there just might be this beautiful, 1972 Pinzgauer rolling around in Washington. | Continue reading
Enjoy a virtual trip along the classic Kokpelli bikepacking route, from Colorado to Utah, in this beautiful and minimalist short film from Manual Pedal. | Continue reading
Yesterday, via the miracle of technology, I gave a presentation to a journal class in New York while I was sitting in my office in Southern California. Not only did I put on a nice shirt, I actually wore pants. It felt like a banner day, really it did. We covered the business sid … | Continue reading
A few weeks back, PrimaLoft announced it had developed something called PrimaLoft Bio, an insulation made from recycled and, here’s the kicker, biodegradable synthetic fibers. Now it’s announced it’s also figured out how to make recycled and biodegradable synthetic performance fa … | Continue reading
Voting with your dollars, putting your money where your mouth is—whatever you’d like to call it—making buying decisions based on the politics, ethics, or values of the brand selling you their products appears to be an increasing motivation for customers. According to a study rece … | Continue reading
Adventurers Clarissa Black and Leigh Swansborough hiked the Chilkoot Trail, paddled the Yukon River, and walked the Dempster Highway across the Yukon. | Continue reading
Reports are beginning to swirl that Ryan Zinke, Trump’s scandal-plagued Secretary of the Interior and a hugely divisive figure in the outdoor community, may not be in his post for much longer. It’s not unusual for presidents to reshape their cabinets after a midterm election, esp … | Continue reading
We’ve reported quite a bit recently on studies that show, more of them all the time it seems, that being in wilderness, especially being active in nature, can act as a healing salve for mental and physical ailments. For some people, thru-hikes over incredibly long distances becom … | Continue reading
The Cape St. Francis sequence in Endless Summer is surf moviemaking’s perfect sphere. Our Pythagorean ideal. Nothing to be added. Nothing subtracted. I knew this right down to my not-yet-descended testes when I watched Endless Summer in a Santa Monica movie theater in 1967. I kno … | Continue reading
In the summer of 1968, nine sailors began sailing from various ports across Great Britain in the The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a solo, around-the-world, non-stop sailing competition. Rules were fairly loose, as some of the entrants had already been planning around-the-world … | Continue reading
The Outdoor Foundation is a nonprofit that works to get kids outside and to make being outside and adventuring, exploring, and having fun in the wilderness part of their lives on a regular basis. Last summer, Patagonia, Thule, and VF Corp—the parent company of The North Face, amo … | Continue reading
Dirty Gourmet is three women—Aimee Trudeau, Emily Nielson, and Mai-Yan Kwan—who came together after a bike tour across Canada. They put together a big variety of camp meals, many of which can be found in their cookbook of the same name, with lots of different cultural and taste i … | Continue reading
Well, this is extremely cool. Team River Runner is an adaptive sports program that gets veterans in the water and paddling as a form of therapy, both physical and mental. This past September, they took on the bold task of prepping and guiding five visually impaired veterans for a … | Continue reading
If you are starting to dread, just a little bit, mothballing your mountain bike for the coming winter, watch these madmen and take heart. Flowing over slushy singletrack and boosting over icy ramps, they show that a little snow is nothing plenty of blazing speed and a brazen line … | Continue reading
Sunny Eaton and Karin Balsley left their jobs and their home behind, built up a tough-as-nails Land Cruiser, and hit the trail, becoming 'The Vagabroads.' | Continue reading
This past weekend a video of a plucky baby bear determined to crest a steep, snow-covered slope to join its mother at the top went viral. At first, it seemed most social media posts of the video celebrated the little bear as a source of inspiration, a sort of real-life version of … | Continue reading
It’s a beautiful place, Iceland. One of the most beautiful places I have ever been. The landscapes are magnificent and serene. You can travel for miles on end, undisturbed, free to daydream gently as you go. You are free to pitch your tent wherever you please in that big empty si … | Continue reading
Ross Edgley, a British adventurer who has pulled off some impressive, if questionable feats, like running an entire marathon while dragging a car on a tow rope and swimming massive lengths of the Caribbean Sea weighed down by a 100-pound hunk of wood, stepped into the Atlantic ne … | Continue reading
Inaccessible Island is an actual place and appropriately named as far as islands go. You can, however, access Inaccessible Island, technically, though it’s fiendishly difficult. It’s a steep-cliffed island some 2,175 miles from South America and 1,740 miles from South Africa. No … | Continue reading
Alpinist, educator, business owner, award-winning mountain guide, and all-around badass Angela Hawse has every right to rest on her rather luminous laurels. After all, she’s spent the last 35 years introducing others to the wonders of rock, ice, and snow while guiding across five … | Continue reading
Adventure photographer Sebastian Copeland has spent more than a decade exploring the planet’s polar regions. Partly that’s because he’s a traveler, climber, and mountaineer by nature, but also because he hopes to share the fragility of these places with the vast majority of peopl … | Continue reading
Last month we presented the trailer for an exciting new short film about Malcolm Bass, Guy Buckingham, and Paul Figg making the first successful climb of Janhukot, near the headwaters of the Ganges, in the Indian Garhwal Himalaya. The brief trailer was gorgeous and whetted our ap … | Continue reading
When Robert and Samantha Garlow moved from Buffalo, New York, to Yakima, Washington, they decided that rather than choose a standard permanent dwelling, they wanted something mobile. But not a van. Not an RV either. A small, simple, and sturdy home designed for full-time living, … | Continue reading
Charles Post is an ecologist, filmmaker, and photographer, originally from Northern California but now living in Montana. He spends a good chunk of his time traveling through the West, researching and telling stories about wildlife and conservation. Last year Post went to Texas t … | Continue reading
This short film was released a couple years back, but as the thermometer’s needle begins to dip in the northern hemisphere, our thoughts turn to shivering, cold water surf sessions, and it’s a film you can’t watch enough, really. Called Freezing, it’s a poke in the eye of overly … | Continue reading
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
Gary Paulsen’s book Hatchet, about a kid who survives an airplane crash deep in the woods and has to survive on his own in the wilderness deeply affected thousands of adolescents when the book was published in 1987. Kids everywhere would think about Brian, Hatchet’s quick-witted … | Continue reading
I walked into a Subaru dealership this past weekend, the first time in my life I’d ever set foot in one. In retrospect, it’s hard to believe I hadn’t been in one before. As I drove up in my dusty Tacoma with a mountain bike strapped to a hitch rack and surfboards in the bed, … | Continue reading
Since publishing his iconic desert paean Desert Solitaire in 1968, Edward Abbey has been lionized in the wilderness community as a champion of wild places, eloquent curmudgeon, and pioneering monkey-wrencher. His potent influence continues to course through the modern conservatio … | Continue reading
The USGS just released its latest volcanic threat assessment report (amateur volcanologists may read here)—a pretty interesting read, actually—which describes the threat level of the 160 active volcanoes in the US. Roughly 20 percent of those active volcanoes are in national park … | Continue reading
It seems like one after another, awesome outdoor movies keep getting pumped out. And along comes the Women’s Adventure Film Tour, nine—as of now—inspiring films from the worlds of climbing, surfing, cycling, skiing, snowboarding, adventure photography, and on and on. The tour kic … | Continue reading
It’s kinda funny that the name of this REI/Teton Gravity segment is called The Far Out Ones, because in it Jeremy Jones talks about how he’s traveled all over the world to snowboard and now is finding satisfaction close to home, in his case the Sierra Nevada or, in this road trip … | Continue reading
While Danner makes plenty of hardscrabble boots meant for traipsing through marshes in pursuit of game or standing all day in the mud while working construction and hiking boots so burly your grandkids will be handing them down to their grandkids, the last few years they’ve been … | Continue reading
Did you know that there are tiger farms in China? Or that the 6,500-plus tigers there outnumber the 3,900 in the wild and that when the tigers are slaughtered their skin and bones are sold on the black market for superstition-based medicinal rites? Since 1993, when China banned t … | Continue reading
I’ve often wanted to reincarnate as a tree. Silent, peaceful, long-living, stoic. There’s something about them that feels…wise. As humans, we look to trees for protection, shade, shelter, beauty, and comfort. Patagonia’s new film Treeline explores those themes with a handful of s … | Continue reading
When Friends on Bikes founders Molly Sugar and Gritchelle Fallesgon moved to Portland, Oregon, from larger, more diverse cities, they took a look at the cycling community, both on and off-road, and while they saw a vibrant, passionate cycling community, they didn’t see a whole lo … | Continue reading
It took three attempts, the last one on his own, but Austrian alpinist David Lama successfully made it to the top of 22,600-foot Lunag Ri on the border of Nepal and Tibet. In 2015, Lama and American mountaineer Conrad Anker turned back when they determined the margin for a safe … | Continue reading
The thing I loved most about Stuart Island was how it never seemed to change. Every summer I would come back a year older, but the mountains still loomed above the ocean, the Douglas fir trees still framed the dock, the pond still felt refreshingly cool when I ran up the hill and … | Continue reading
The BLM officially recognized a man who claimed an 80-acre plot of land in Alaska as the nation’s last homesteader in 1974, ending the 112-year program. The Homestead Act was, of course, written to quicken western expansion, deeding people small chunks of farmland if they worked … | Continue reading