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Intro Intro
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Mementos, Notes, and Fragments Mementoes Notes and Fragments
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Recommended Reading Recommended Reading
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Feature For Sale or Trade, One Reverse-Averse Van
Found on the Seattle Craigslist, its author unknown, this prose-poem farewell to a beloved vehicle contains a multitude of tales
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Natural Curiosities There’s a Superorganism Right Beneath Your Feet
Meet the strange, living crust that holds the desert together
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Feature A Land Apart
Now at peace, Kurdistan tries to reclaim its mountain past and build its recreational future
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Feature Surf City, Canada
How did a small Vancouver Island seaport become the most surf-crazed town in North America?
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Feature Unblinking
Conservation photographer Cristina Mittermeier has a clear-eyed view of our environmental crisis and a hard-edged strategy for addressing it
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Weekend Cabin When a Family Cabin Forms You
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Feature Norse Saga
In the Faroe Islands, nothing is flat, the wind blows hard or not at all, and a human-powered crossing demands any means necessary
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Feature Cold Catalyst
Open-water swimming explores the boundaries of sensation, instinct, and comfort
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Feature A Big Day in the Sky
New Hampshire's Presidential Traverse holds the highest points in the East, all above treeline, and they're spiced by the world's worst weather
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Feature Mistakes Will Be Made
A collection of mishaps, screwups, oversights, and other assorted mayhem as confessed by some of the world's top adventurers
112
Three Square Three Square
Fall is a spectacular time to be outside. These three recipes are among our favorite autumn combinations
116
Portfolio Portfolio: Against the Flow
A group of climbers travels to Japan's tallest waterfall for initiation to the ancient practice of sawanobori
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