Colorado-based author Kate Siber can be reached at katesiber.com and @sibereye.
Southern California artist Ariel Lee posts up at leeariel.com and @lee_ariel_. You can purchase her art at ariellee.bigcartel.com.
Christophe Jacrot’s newest book of photography, Winterland: The Colors of Snow, will be released in the United States in January 2026. christophejacrot.com, @christophe.jacrot
Photographer, painter, filmmaker, and Surfer magazine founder John Severson passed away in 2017, but his family foundation maintains a website where you can purchase his original art and prints of his photos, including the iconic image of Greg Noll featured here. surferart.com. Noll died in 2021 at age eighty-four; you can read about him at the Encyclopedia of Surfing, eos.surf.
Sam George is the former editor of Surfer magazine, Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, and author of the 2025 memoir, Child of Storms, which we excerpted in AJ38. @samgeorgesurf
About Iceland: Respect the moss, as it’s older than your country, softer than your pillow, and can take a century to grow back. Always bring waterproof toilet paper; Iceland laughs in the face of anything dry.
Mattias Fredriksson is a photographer, journalist, and editor-in-chief of Interstellar, Stellar Equipment’s mountain culture journal. He’s spent nearly thirty years documenting ski and mountain bike cultures around the world and his images have appeared on more than five hundred magazine covers. He lives in Terrace, British Columbia. mattiasfredriksson.com, @mattiasfredrikssonphotography
If you’re thinking about moving to the interior of Alaska in winter, writer Carrot Quinn wants you to know “it’s a dry cold.”
Quinn has hiked eleven thousand miles and written three books. She currently owns a guiding company and takes groups of women, trans, and nonbinary people backpacking in Arizona, Utah, and Alaska. carrotquinn.com, carrotquinn.substack.com, @carrotquinn
Mad River Glen’s single-chair bullwheel started turning in 1948 and continues today. Want to be a ski-area owner? Shares of MRG’s co-op are available for two thousand dollars plus another two hundred dollars a year. That gets you voting rights, a fifteen-percent discount on season passes, and access to passes or day tickets after they’ve sold out. The area would like to sell two thousand five hundred shares; currently, there are two thousand one hundred thirty shares held by eighteen hundred individuals. We’re guessing they’ll throw in a “ski it if you can” sticker, should you join them. madriverglen.com, @madriverglen
Kenneth Howe worked as a reporter for many years, covering forty thousand square miles of Alaska to put out a weekly newspaper, before finding his way to Hong Kong, where he opened Varga Lounge, a downtown bar. Repatriating after two decades overseas, skiing Mad River is his key to not burning up on reentry. kennethhowestorytelling.com
After her epic round-the-world ride, Elspeth Beard returned to England and started her architecture practice. Her redesign of Munstead Tower in Godalming won the 1994 Royal Institute of Architects award for Southeast England. She remains devoted to riding BMWs and exercising her pilot’s license. Her book, Lone Rider, is widely available. elspethbeard.com, elspethbeardarchitects.co.uk, @elspethbeard
John Scurlock built an airplane. Then, for nearly twenty-five years, he flew it to the wildest corners of western North America, photographing the mountains and glaciers he found there. He lives on an island in western Washington with his wife, photojournalist Ruth Fremson, and their two cats. His book, Snow & Spire: Flights to Winter in the North Cascade Range, is available on his website, as are prints of his extraordinary photos. jaggedridgeimaging.com, @john_scurlock
In 2019, an email from Bill Lipe inspired author Morgan Sjogren to retrace the historic 1920s Bernheimer Expeditions in Glen Canyon, where she was living out of her Jeep. Sjogren devoted five years to the project, hiking thousands of desert miles, navigating canyons of library archives, and regularly corresponding with Lipe. Her resulting book, Path of Light: A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon, is an exploration of a century of human impact on a beloved landscape. morgansjogren.com, wildwords.substack.com, @morgan.sjogren
If you’re shying away from Ecuador because of unrest, know that it’s geographically confined around Guayaquil—the mountains are tranquilo. If you’re a beginner or intermediate mountaineer, we recommend guide Juan Espinoza, WhatsApp +593-98-295-7566. Plan three weeks to be acclimatized enough to climb several peaks; go light, but not as light as the writer.
Author Mark Jenkins has been writing about adventure for forty years, twenty of them for National Geographic. He recently fell off a mountain, shattered his foot, and, as we went to press, was hobbling wildly about on crutches. markjenkins.net, markjenkinsgoingtoextremes.substack.com
Dave McAdam’s cabin is not for rent. However, his property management company, Homestead Modern, represents fifty-some properties in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree National Park, California. homesteadmodern.com, @homesteadmodern
In case you haven’t noticed, the recipes we feature in Three Square are always vegan. There are two reasons for this: One, for lots of recipes, it’s easier to add animal products than remove them. Two, eating more plants and fewer animal products is one of the best lifestyle changes you can make to fight climate change. It’s not like you’re going to waste away; bears, despite their love of salmon, eat mostly berries and other fine vegetative foods.
The recipes in this issue are excerpted and adapted from Dirty Gourmet, Mountaineers Books, 2018. Dirty Gourmet’s second cookbook, Dirty Gourmet: Plant Power, was published by Mountaineers Books in 2023. dirtygourmet.com, @dirtygourmet
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