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What does one do with the thoughts that keep you up at night, solo in the tent?

What does one do with the thoughts that keep you up at night, solo in the tent?

It's long past time to get over misguided assumptions about looks, ability, and character.

That awkwardness when two friends have a sporting outing and one has a different sport in mind.

Vans are sweet and all, but they're marks of adulthood. Sometimes a little regression to childhood is just [...]

That awkwardness when two friends have a sporting outing and one has a different sport in mind.

What happens to your relationship when the going gets tough?

In the face of snarky criticism, perhaps the best impression is the one you make with your tread.

Beneath the hipster/lumbersexual conformity of today's neo-naturalists is something very: a hunger for meaning.

Growing up has a funny way of making us hesitate. Here's for leaping into the unknown.

His photos are rich with longing for the mythology of the iconic American mountain west.

From kiteboarding the Black Rock Desert to skiing Antarctica, this photographer gets around.

New amputee badass Niki Rellon thought walking from Georgia to Maine would be a great way to rehab.

What’s the difference between a travel photographer and a traveler who photographs? It might be a [...]

That sandstone bluff was a sight for sore eyes. Well, sore legs, at least. We needed a proper, safe place

When is a hashtag more than just a hashtag? When it becomes a community of friends in real life. Meg

I think it started with the wooden clunk of Brendan stacking a few small fallen logs across the windward opening

Few things are worth enough to skip a vacation. But Sondre Forsell makes a pretty strong case for using your

When Joe Riis graduated from college after studying wildlife biology in Wyoming, he decided he didn’t [...]

Mitsu’s eyes seemed to light as he delved into the subject, describing new possibilities and aesthetic [...]

Photography has been Chris Brinlee Jr.’s passion since he started studying it at 18. But it [...]

Jillian Lukiwski’s Instagram feed looks like something straight out of a Patagonia catalog. [...]

Long before “putting a bird on it” was a thing, Kim Stroud was onto something. Since the early [...]

Guiding a group of skiers across a backcountry slope in the Selkirks in 2003, Ken Wylie watched as an avalanche

Love bicycles? Love donuts? Anyone who’s ever tucked into a decadent meal with the burning hunger [...]

With hardly another car on the highway an hour before dawn, it was difficult to keep from pressing the pedal

Alex Honnold has made a name for himself free soloing the big walls of Yosemite, cruising up classic, [...]

My mom recently told me the story of a woman remembering the moment Nazi soldiers came to take her father

What exactly is lost with each bit of dark night sky that’s blotted out by artificial light? Paul [...]

“Why do women just love to judge each other?” I wanted to ask. My friend, a high-achieving urban [...]

What do you do when you want to get an up-close-and-personal shot of a lion without getting too up close

Chris Noble has been photographing climbers and adventurers for decades – for the likes of Life, [...]

My friend’s smile lit up as she pulled up the photo on her phone and held it across the table

Filmmaker George Desort fell in love with Isle Royale the way another man might fall in love with a woman.

I didn’t realize-or tried to ignore-that the man was talking to me until he was standing in front of my

A sea of faces stared wide-eyed into the cold, brightly lit night, ooohing and ahhhing as Will Gadd precisely [...]

As a professional photographer, Michael Mullady’s lenses are usually aimed at stories of environmental [...]

Throwing the surfboard onto the car for a trip to the beach is standard California weekend fare, but in New

“Nice. Yeah, you got it.” I slowly paid out rope as Lee grunted and mantled over the top of the cruxy

Joey Schusler has a mountain biker’s dream job, managing the ambassador team and social media for Yeti [...]

Huffing and puffing around the hairpin switchback, I was intimately aware of how mushy and weak my thighs felt in

Poet Jynne Martin has been fascinated with penguins, National Geographic, and snowbound landscapes since [...]

At the seasoned age of 23, Morgan Maassen has already been carving out an enviable career in surf photography for

When we installed the Kuat NV rack, it was a last-ditch effort to keep mountain bikes a part of our

A traveler since childhood, Jake Sargeant is a master at capturing the light and feel of various places he visits.

Nature offers up plenty of magnificent moments to those with a waiting camera, but an eye for simplicity and [...]

“The only thing I regret is that I didn’t pack one of my cute scarves. And lipgloss,” my [...]

Our eyes locked, and I sensed a deep pleading from her dark brown eyes-a very earnest expression. I [...]

Tally Gunstone has the Pacific Northwest in her blood, and it shows in her photos. A native Portlander, [...]

Alpinist Steve House has earned his reputation as one of the best high-altitude climbers of our day by going faster

Filmmaker Jim Hurst’s work takes him from his home in southwestern Colorado, where he used to coach [...]

“I think it’s hot when a woman can blow a snot rocket without slowing down,” my guy friend [...]

Jeremy Koreski’s photos put his audience very squarely in his shoes – which are often wetsuit [...]

In rock climbing and mountaineering, there are few acceptable excuses. Accountability is high. Other than [...]

How can this embodiment of the new school Millennial outdoor brand afford to manufacture here? Keep things simple.

The rush of emotion took me by surprise. I had awkwardly cast the line several times, usually landing it in

“All mountains appear doomed to pass through three stages: An inaccessible peak, the hardest climb in [...]

Sometimes I just want to trail run or sport climb without thinking about what message I'm sending to the men [...]

The magic combo for a successful mobile lifestyle is nailing the art of simple living and finding a way to

Beryl Markham didn’t get a hero’s welcome when she became the first woman to fly solo across the [...]