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Three Square

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Fall is a spectacular time to be outside. These three recipes are among our favorite autumn combinations

Surf City, Canada

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How did a small Vancouver Island seaport become the most surf-crazed town in North America?

When a Family Cabin Forms You

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Our family cabin was located in a tiny north-south valley, which was located in a larger east-west valley, and so I imagined the terrain as a giant Phillips-head screwdriver pattern, with our little spot in the very bottom of the center. It wasn’t exactly the Grand Canyon, because this was central Pennsylvania, but the trees … Read more

Cold Catalyst

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Open-water swimming explores the boundaries of sensation, instinct, and comfort

Intro

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When I was four, my mother took me to a pool in Alexandria, Virginia, and paid for me to have swim lessons. I was terrified. The instructor said, “Don’t worry, if you drown your parents will sue me, so I won’t let that happen.” This was cold comfort, and the lesson was an abject failure. … Read more

A Land Apart

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Now at peace, Kurdistan tries to reclaim its mountain past and build its recreational future

Mistakes Will Be Made

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A collection of mishaps, screwups, oversights, and other assorted mayhem as confessed by some of the world’s top adventurers

Unblinking

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Conservation photographer Cristina Mittermeier has a clear-eyed view of our environmental crisis and a hard-edged strategy for addressing it