AJ 22 • Resources Resources Issue 22 Never Swim Alone* At ten miles, the Strait of Gibraltar is the shortest of the Oceans Seven swims, though with more than three hundred ships passing through each day, it’s one of the most challenging. The rest are the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland, twenty-one miles; … Read more
Living in harmony with the seasons and the land is an ideal tightly wound up with Japanese national identity
For nearly fifty years, Desert magazine was gritty and provocative and full of love for the American drylands
David and I met in the first class on the first day of high school. It was gym, home room, and when they assigned lockers our names were next to each other alphabetically so we looked at each other and said, You wanna? Within a few weeks, we were inseparable. It’s impossible to exaggerate how … Read more
What’s the role of a guidebook? Mountain legend and author Joe Kelsey says it’s to help you to lose your way
AJ 22 • Mementos, Notes, and Fragments Mementos, Notes, and Fragments Issue 22 01 Famous El Cap Flakes Are Hanging By a Thread (So to Speak) Gravity always gets its way, it’s just a question of when. For the iconic rock formation on New Hampshire’s Cannon Mountain known as the Old Man of the Mountain, … Read more
How Colorado’s 1970s Pearl Pass tours helped create the wild new sport of mountain biking
New discoveries show that flora can hear, make, and respond to sounds
One man’s ongoing endless project to get to know his fellow travelers on the road. Photography of Elliot Ross
