Maybe it was the heat that afternoon in Madison, or maybe it was sheer exhaustion as the meeting approached its sixth hour. Either way, tempers were flaring. The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board, a politically appointed body that advises the state’s natural resources agency, met on Aug. 11, 2021, to debate a seemingly narrow question: How … Read more
Little Ryker Webb spent the weekend outside earlier this month, involuntarily. The three-year-old was playing with his dog outside a family home in northwestern Montana, near Bull Lake, when he seemingly vanished. At roughly 5pm last Friday he was reported as missing while his family had begun combing the woods near his home. Authorities and … Read more
More Than Just Parks is back with a short film celebrating Badlands National Park, the pride of South Dakota. 244,000 acres of strange rock formations, endless grasslands, and the rumbling hoofbeats of bison.
Short weeks are the best weeks, but we do have business to conduct, which is to introduce you to the cover of the summer issue of Adventure Journal quarterly. Indeed, I can’t remember when I’ve been so excited about a cover photo. This image of Grand Canyon river guide Margeaux Bestard was created by David … Read more
It is absurd to suggest that a person could have a gear crush on something as utilitarian as a vehicle rack, but I will suggest it because I do in fact have a gear crush on the Front Runner Outfitters Slimline II. It was a pleasure to assemble—really—and is even more of a pleasure to … Read more
New Zealand’s hut system is legendary: well-kept backcountry havens pepper the country’s most popular trails and the remote, less-traveled ones too. Take a look inside the life of one of their dedicated hut-wardens with this sweet video from Whitney Oliver, an Australia-based filmmaker with a penchant for the quieter side of the outdoors. So it … Read more
Ukko is the Finnish god of thunder and the wide open sky. Ukko is a moody, SOB, huh?
If you’re not deeply familiar with Marin County, California, and you ride mountain bikes, you might think of it as a bucolic, redwood-shrouded system of gorgeous singletrack trails twisting above trickling streams, poking out of the trees for ocean views, and leading to charming towns with plentiful beer and coffee options. The birthplace of mountain … Read more
The mere thought of barbecue’s smokey scents and intoxicating flavors is enough to get most mouths watering. Summer is here, and that means it is barbecue season for many people in the U.S. I am a chemist who studies compounds found in nature, and I am also a lover of food – including barbecue. Cooking … Read more
You don’t have to be into sport climbing, or any other kind of climbing, to be wowed by the sheer faces of these limestone cliff palaces, carved by some Ancient Greek god of climbing.