Do Public Lands Need a Rest?
Decades of research and centuries of cultural precedent point to the benefits of a time-out
Chris Muldrow
Hiding in Plain Sight
One of the world’s most ambitious rewilding efforts is little known, little visited, and smack in the middle of Montana
Peak Sketching
A long-time leader of the American climbing community expresses himself with a sixty-year-old toy
The Social Backpacking Network
What it’s like to hike in Arctic Sweden with a few hundred newfound friends
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading — Adventure Journal 40 The Magazine Field Notes Podcast Shop Account Subscribe The Magazine Field Notes Podcast Shop Subscribe Recommended Reading No. 40 Notes From an Island Tove Jansson · Timber Press · 2024 For twenty-six years, Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä spent summers on a bare … Read more
Intro
Creating a fire by rubbing two sticks together is surprisingly challenging, which actually should not be surprising, since everybody who’s tried will tell you it’s challenging. There are so many variables before you even commence with the frictive part. Where do you get the sticks? What kind of wood do you use? Do you take … Read more
Arts + Sciences
Outdoor author and Dharma counselor Kate Siber, bold landscape painter Ariel Lee, and stormy weather photographer Christophe Jacrot
Blind Faith
On Ecuador’s highest peak, alone in a storm on borrowed gear, he had no choice but to continue toward an unseen summit