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Malia Knows the Adventure Itch Must Be Scratched

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Kauai is the world’s only perfect place. Really, truly. If you’ve been, you may be raising a hand to argue a counterpoint, but then you remember the sights, the smells, the very vibes of the place and you remember. Malia Manuel, the subject of this short, is from Kauai, but even she knows you have … Read more

Even My Tiny Alaskan Town Is Getting Screwed By the Housing Crisis

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Dozens of us highlighted how communities across the West have fought similar battles for an entire generation now. With no guardrails to support local homeownership, second-home real estate investors would likely gobble up the project’s predominantly high-end units. It’s happening already, with most shunning the long-term rental needs of a few thousand people in this … Read more

A Review of Questionable Utility: My Adventure Toddler

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For most of my adventure-y excursions that don’t involve a mountain bike or a surfboard, my toddler, all 30 pounds of her (yeah, you read that right) joins me, often in her chariot, the wonderful Poco Plus backpack from Osprey. I acquired her in the, uh, usual way about 15 months ago (no paid advertorial … Read more

The Art of Apprehensive Adventuring

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Ravine Cyrique, Dominica, 2008 Halfway down the rope ladder, I paused to collect myself. “Are you sure about this?” I asked. But there was no one there to respond. Paul, my boyfriend, had scampered down the ladder without a flinch and was now well out of view. As I clutched the weathered rails, staring at … Read more

Unboxing Museum Bikes Is ASMR for Bike Nuts

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The Pro’s Closet, online used bike megastore, has a giant museum of historic bikes. They’ve started a series of unboxing and building up museum rigs and there’s not much better to relax to if you’re a bike nerd than these videos. This one is a very rare 1986 Cunningham aluminum road bike and, well, check … Read more

Do You Have the ‘Fear of Nature’?

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What do we lose when natural spaces and species disappear? Increasingly, research has shown that as species and ecosystems vanish, it also chips away at our ability to preserve what remains — because we no longer understand what we’re losing. You probably see it all the time. The neighbor who puts pesticides on his lawn … Read more