There are more than 4,000 stories in the Adventure Journal archive. Occasionally we’ll comb through the stacks, select a cherished favorite, and put it back on the homepage for new readers to enjoy. – Ed.>/em> Have you ever stopped by your favorite outdoor gear retailer on your way out of town for a trip to … Read more
It’s a Saturday evening in San Francisco. The sunset is incredible, I’ve just opened a beer, cranked up the stereo (Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, in case you were wondering), and I’m getting to the Saturday night business at hand: sewing up the pockets of my favorite hiking shorts. The left pocket developed an … Read more
Adventure Journal has more than 3,000 stories in our archive, most of which are evergreen. We like to put our most popular posts back on the homepage for new readers to enjoy, or, in this case, when we update a piece with new information, like even more hilarious one-star Yelp reviews of National Parks. – … Read more
There are more than 3,000 stories in the Adventure Journal archive, most of which are evergreen. We like to put favored pieces from the past back on the homepage occasionally, so that new readers may enjoy them, and our regular visitors can see pieces they may have missed. – Ed. There’s a single paragraph in … Read more
I stood up to admire my haul, and for the first time, paused to look around. I had been so hyper-focused on the forest floor, which was blooming with glorious eruptions of chanterelles, that I hadn’t stopped to look up in … 30 minutes? An hour? Two? Hmm. I wonder where everyone is. Probably over … Read more
One hundred and five years ago, Edward “Ryko” Reichenback broke the speed record for riding across Australia south to north, covering 3,000 kilometers, or almost 1,900 miles, in 28 days. He set off from the post office in Adelaide and finished at the p.o. in Darwin four weeks later, having suffered no major mishaps but … Read more
One of the best bits of financial advice I’ve heard is to spend your money paying people to do things you don’t like to do. (In my case, that includes yard work, plumbing, and dealing with drywall.) It’s actually a key to happiness and financial satisfaction, to which I can attest. However, I would also … Read more
We’ve gathered a mile below the surface of the Arizona desert, a group of old friends together for two weeks of camping, whitewater, and canyoneering on the Colorado River. It’s an artist retreat of sorts; photographers, filmmakers, musicians, and illustrators fill the rafts floating downstream. A trip for deep discussion and lighthearted play, where time … Read more
When Dawid Andres first dreamed of crossing the South American continent with his half-brother Hubert Kisiński, the idea of bolting bikes to pontoons and descending the Amazon River was the furthest thing from his mind. The plan in the beginning was more sensible: Bike from the Pacific to the source of the Amazon, then kayak … Read more
“In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact … Read more