Tom Hornbein, Legendary Everest Pioneer, Dead at 92
In May, 1963, Jim Whittaker summited Everest from the South Col, becoming the first American to reach the highest point in the world. But later th...
Read moreIn May, 1963, Jim Whittaker summited Everest from the South Col, becoming the first American to reach the highest point in the world. But later th...
Read moreDr. Suess titled one of his books Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Such a great title, isn’t it? Totally worthy of the exclamation mark. It captures the...
Read more6,600 feet up a mountain in a small wood box, three hours by foot from the nearest dirt road, the rest of the world a million miles away, no conve...
Read moreSo is hiking. So is camping. So is skiing, surfing, rafting, catch and release fishing, trail running, mountain biking. And that's what makes thos...
Read moreYou know that bit in Forrest Gump where he takes off running, without any planning or preparation, and doesn’t stop for three years? Some days (m...
Read moreWhen I took my first course at the National Outdoor Leadership School in Lander, Wyoming, years ago, the preferred method of waste disposal was br...
Read moreFive or so years back I embarked on a serious van conversion experiment. For my project, I used the following kit: One diesel van, large enough f...
Read moreMillican Dalton knew how to make an impression. When a correspondent from the Sunday Chronicle newspaper came calling in 1933, the self-styled “P...
Read moreYou can be a well-seasoned backpacker and a dedicated mountain biker, and have had plenty of success putting the two together on long bikepacking...
Read moreIn 2017, the public lost 1,470 acres of wilderness-quality land at the base of Mount Sopris near Aspen, Colorado. For decades, people had hiked a...
Read moreWalter William Greaves was never marked for fame or fortune. He came of age in the late 1920s in Bradford, a gritty mill town in the north of Eng...
Read moreFree entrance. Free camping. Now this is how a national park should be. Peel off a few billion by making a handful fewer stealth fighters we don't...
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