It's not a sin to eat an entire bag of tortilla chips at the end of a hike. Not when the guac tastes this good. | Continue reading
In September 1959 a five-foot whisper of a woman, the French swimwear designer and alpinist Claude Kogan, set out for the 8,188-meter (26,864 ft) summit of Cho Oyu, the world’s sixth-highest mountain. She was joined by her friend Claudine van der Stratten of Belgium and Ang Norbu … | Continue reading
A man on a singular mission. | Continue reading
The Apostle Islands in Lake Superior are beautiful, remote, and not to be trifled with. | Continue reading
PNW knocks it out of the park, yet again. | Continue reading
Western Australia is a huge craggy hunk of reefs and points sticking way out into the middle of the Indian Ocean, practically begging big storms roaring off Antarctica to send its worst. It’s beautiful. It’s terrible. | Continue reading
Late spring brings the real bounty of the forest—if you know what to look for. | Continue reading
A ribbon of comfort flying in gravity's face. | Continue reading
When you need an excuse to disappear into the wilderness for a few days, it's hard to beat: 'Because it's what we do.' | Continue reading
Click and chill. | Continue reading
New technology shows human ancestors have used campfires hundreds of thousands of years before we thought. | Continue reading
British Columbia and Alberta argue their cases before the Court of the Universe that they are indeed, heaven, in this stirri | Continue reading
Ruling limits EPA’s ability to cut carbon emissions | Continue reading
On June 3, 1950, three years before anyone would stand on top of Everest, French mountaineers Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal knocked off the first of the 8,000-meter giants: 26,545-foot Annapurna. For three years, Annapurna was the highest anyone had ever climbed on earth. The … | Continue reading
If you're a humanities scholar looking for a post-doc, take note. | Continue reading
Who needs two extra legs? Or hooves? | Continue reading
The mightiest of mites. | Continue reading
‘There are waters I’ve wanted to fish for 50 years, and I’ve been denied the use of a state-owned resource.’ | Continue reading
Burly, USA-made, cool-looking cargo carrying. | Continue reading
The word “epic” is thrown around far too often these days, including by us, which can be a shame when it comes time to describe a short like this which is, indeed, epic. | Continue reading
“Nice. Yeah, you got it.” I slowly paid out rope as Lee grunted and mantled over the top of the cruxy bulge. “Sweet!” I almost squealed with excitement as he placed a cam and clipped into it. But then I quickly lowered my voice, afraid I sounded silly. Lee is a good friend, exper … | Continue reading
This looks like a fun trip outdoors in places and with people you might not expect. | Continue reading
High, uncrowded Oregon. | Continue reading
Goodbye catholes, can't say we'll miss ya. | Continue reading
Ride your kid to school, hit the town for a cruise, and take on multi-day gravel adventures, all with one helmet. | Continue reading
There's fun to be had, folks. | Continue reading
The InBetween House, outside of Nagano, Japan, is a mindbender of exterior/interior, public/private, and city/rural metaphors and functionality. Within the classic reference of nature-infused Japanese architecture, it delivers all of the aforementioned elements and everything in … | Continue reading
Ahhhhhhh. | Continue reading
Summer won't last forever (or will it?) so get to reading. | Continue reading
In which a new parent explains: "Now that silence is really all I have time for, I'm realizing that silence was a far bigger part of outdoor experiences than I'd imagined." | Continue reading
You've heard of Thor Heyerdahl's famous transoceanic voyages? Well, meet his mountain climbing, plane flying, gold mining navigator. | Continue reading
They rode the impossible with pluck, style, and nothing electronic. | Continue reading
The reintroduction of the long-lived, highly social birds has offered insight into the importance of parenting in the species. | Continue reading
I don’t speak much French and I read even less so I can’t tell you a whole lot about what this ad says, but I will do my best to translate: “Buy this little car/van because it’s the classiest camper you can get. Heck with your overbuilt Sprinters and your Tacomas with camper shel … | Continue reading
No love hotter than that shared by volcanologists. | Continue reading
Or can a Rivian compete with a gas-powered Honda Civic for carbon emission bonafides? | Continue reading
The idea came to him in the beer tent. “What if we nail 10 grand to a tree in Alaska and say, ‘Come and get it’?” Jake Beattie told friends at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival back in 2013. Beattie, the executive director of the Northwest Maritime Center, was fed up with hi … | Continue reading
What are you willing to risk? | Continue reading
Always do your homework, folks. | Continue reading
Fire expert Steve Pyne says New Mexico's largest recorded fire has a lesson for us but it isn't to stop prescribed burns. | Continue reading
Why buy $300 shades when these are out there kicking butt for so much less? | Continue reading
Now THIS is how you build a camper. | 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
A court ruling will make the Park Service review its sweeping permission as the Forest Service adds a new category of vehicle. | Continue reading
Is this a dude hallucinating or a tree having an existential crisis? | Continue reading
Independent, curious, fearless, Dervla Murphy was the travel writer's travel writer. | Continue reading
Lots of superlatives when it comes to Lake Baikal, including "weirdest." | Continue reading
Watch as a first-time backpacker pushes through exhaustion and near-breakdown on one of the country’s most spectacular high altitude treks. | Continue reading