It’s jarring to see nature make something with ruler-edged straight lines. Especially when those straight-lined things are massive icebergs hundreds and hundreds of yards long. Which is just what has happened in Antarctica, and NASA is all over the scene taking pictures and causi … | Continue reading
Jaimal Yogis spends a lot of time thinking about not thinking. He’s a writer and surfer based in San Francisco, California, where he pursues the elusive quality, or perhaps a state of being, of Zen. Yogis has written two memoirs about the relationship between surfing and his Zen … | Continue reading
This is my kind of ride. Northern latitudes. A minimum of talking. No cars. Country roads. Variable terrain. Sam Needham is a triple threat: photographer, illustrator, and filmmaker. His illustrations are bold, high in relief, geometric, and stand in contrast to the soft gradatio … | Continue reading
On November 18, 1928, Glen and Bessie Hyde said goodbye to brothers Ellsworth and Emery Kolb, left the Kolb’s house near the Grand Canyon’s Bright Angel Trail and began walking down a path leading to the Colorado River. The Hydes had a boat tied up there, one in which they’d spen … | Continue reading
Thom Yorke. The frozen continent. Greenpeace. Black and white video. Here’s almost four minutes of an ethereal escape from, well, everything. Song is called “Hands Off Antarctica.” | Continue reading
Alexandra Ulmke did what you've always dreamed about. Quit her job, bought a van, tricked it out, and started roaming around Alaska | Continue reading
The Massacre Rim towers 1,000 feet above Long Valley in the vast reaches of northwestern Nevada. As with most hikes in this part of the world, getting to the top requires picking out an unmarked route, being flexible and overcoming obstacles. Halfway up, after skirting yet anothe … | Continue reading
This is quite a time for adventure film buffs. Free Solo is smashing documentary records and slickening palms across the country, and The Dawn Wall is warming hearts in screenings all over the place, surely it’s playing tonight at a mountain town near you. And now, on their heels … | Continue reading
Over the years, I’ve tried plenty of padding options for sleeping while truck camping. Thin sheets of memory foam worked pretty well, but were a pain to store and got dirty and gross quickly. Regular backpacking sleeping pads are fine but always feel insufficient considering ther … | Continue reading
For the past few years, REI has shut down its entire business for Black Friday. The company gives its employees the day off, keeps it brick and mortar doors closed, and even flips over the “closed” sign on its website. All part of the #OptOutside campaign to emphasize, well, gett … | Continue reading
Though pop culture often presents surfing awash in sunny skies, in electric blue water, with tanned-to-perfection people riding waves in itty-bitty bathing suits, much of the world’s best surf actually has the audacity to break in cold, grey environs. The west coast of Canada, fo … | Continue reading
Sometimes a polar bear is a living symbol of climate change. Other times an image of a dying polar bear is basically raw meat for the people who want to deny the truth about global warming and demonize the scientists who are researching and communicating these important issues. T … | Continue reading
Scotland’s Shetland Islands are windswept and rugged, full of wide-open vistas, thousands of squawking migratory birds, awesome rock formations, and winding trails. An epic place for long, lingering walks and time spent decompressing in the joys of raw nature. It just so happens … | Continue reading
If you’re part of a couple expecting your first kid, the C-word that usually strikes the most terror in your heart is “college,” but for a pair of French surfers in the midst of a major build, it was “cabin.” The couple, who lived in Paris, contacted JAVA Architecture to design a … | Continue reading
Back in Adventure Journal 07 we recommended the book Honouring High Places: The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei. It’s a collection of stories written by Tabei, the first woman to summit Mt. Everest and to climb all Seven Summits, among a bushel of other mountaineering feats. Tabei w … | Continue reading
“Left for dead” are three words you don’t ever want to be associated with your name. Same goes for “mauled by grizzly,” or “crawled 200 miles.” In 1823, fur trapper Hugh Glass tried all three phrases on for size. Glass, prior to experiencing the above horrors, was hired as a trap … | Continue reading
We’ll admit that we’re not exactly video game connoisseurs here at AJ, so it’s not entirely surprising that it escaped our attention that there’s a video game based on Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. Until now. This is mindblowing. An entire video game with nary a shootout, alien i … | Continue reading
Hey, guys. Steve Casimiro here. I’m kind of a dork about dropping a new issue of Adventure Journal—I feel very much like a proud parent. The thing is, I don’t think we have all that much to do with the success or failure of each issue—”we” being Joni, who designs the book, me, an … | Continue reading
If you’re a fan of the Sawyer Squeeze water filter system—and if you ever used it, you almost certainly are a fan—you’re in for a treat. Sawyer has recently announced their new Micro Squeeze filter system. At only two ounces it’s a full ounce lighter and is much smaller in the ha … | Continue reading
You don’t always need to be fleeing a frustrating and confining 9-5 to embrace the wanderlust wonders of the camper van. You can also be a young adventurer with a mobile job, an eye for scenery, and a burning urge for travel. Like Jordan Tarver here. He’s a writer and a photograp … | Continue reading
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love the people, culture, and fat backcountry lines in the mountains surrounding Jackson, Wyoming. And anyone who knows me knows how much I love sharing untracked pitches with people I don’t know, as well as scoring second tracks. There’s plen … | Continue reading
It's like the Ikon or Epic Passes, but for joining environmental causes. | Continue reading
Running? Climbing? Scrambling? Hiking? What’s your pleasure? For Rory Bosio, Fernanda Maciel, and Martina Valmassoi, the mountains around Chamonix provide a little bit of all of that, but mostly, it’s mountain running that calls them. Punishing, exhilarating, tortuous, soothing, … | Continue reading
If you’ve spent much time hiking in the high country of Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park, you know its awesome beauty and rugged, rocky trails. Some of the Sierra’s highest passes are in that region, including 11,845-foot Kearsarge Pass, which connects a wonderland of backcount … | Continue reading
This weekend, nine climbers were killed when a storm ripped through their camp at Mt. Gurja, a 24,000-foot peak in the Himalayas. Among the dead were four Nepali guides and a team of five South Korean climbers, including world record-holding mountaineer and the trip’s leader, Kim … | Continue reading
If you can’t get to New England for some good old-fashioned leaf peeping, to see the magic of fall as it sweeps through forests, turning green leaves to red and gold, you can at least get a taste in this beautiful short film by Jeff Thomas and Mike Rogge, Color Rush. Not only do … | Continue reading
Hey, hey! Adventure Journal has just launched its first merchandise, a collaboration with artist John Fellows. This limited edition—just 100 of each product—was extended first to subscribers of AJ in print and now we’re opening it to everyone. T-shirts are almost gone and bike wa … | Continue reading
In the Machine Age, hunting tethers humans to a natural reality. | Continue reading
Ian Frazier's 'Travels in Sibera' is a grand adventure tale through one of the world's biggest, and strangest lands. | Continue reading
Fighting a devastating invasive bug means getting to trees via whitewater. Cool. | Continue reading
Enviro groups welcome the news but wonder if Zinke is playing favorites with Montana's open spaces. | Continue reading