Yosemite National Park, above, has more than $555 million in overdue maintenance projects. The National Park Service as a whole has almost $12 billion in delayed repairs-four times its annual budget. Crumbling infrastructure and outdated facilities are evidence, critics say, that the focus of the government should be on fixing what it has, not acquiring … Read more
Steve Dilk is a climber and skier based in Carbondale, Colorado, and like so many of us he spent a great deal of time and energy looking for a basecamp-worthy rig. Unlike so many of us, though, he zeroed in on the Chevy Astro Tiger Provan GT-just when you think a Chevy Astrovan couldn’t get … Read more
Oatmeal has long held the warm breakfast cereal reins, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other grains out there to try. If you’ve been looking to change up your oatmeal game, then buckwheat is the place to start. Buckwheat is actually a seed, which is what makes it popular with the gluten-free crowd and … Read more
Mike Hong is Arc’teryx’s manager of visual design, a rock and ice climber, and owner of a corgi named Dash. A few months before he moved from Brooklyn to Vancouver in June 2014, he picked up a Vanagon and now uses it for his weekend trips for Smith Rock, Squamish, Vantage, and other places. We … Read more
Peanut butter and coffee might sound like an odd combination in a recipe, but let’s think about it this way: “¨Do you love peanut butter? Yes. Do you love coffee? Yes. That’s exactly why these cookies are fantastic. Also, don’t you need a dessert to follow up your PB&J with? The cookies are based off … Read more
Photographer Becca Skinner is loosely based out of Bozeman, Montana, so her office includes Yellowstone and the Tetons. Her work is chasing good light, and sometimes the best way to do that is to have a vehicle you can sleep in, so you’re where you need to be at dusk and dawn. We asked her … Read more
Fruit bars are a beloved friend of anyone who spends time outdoors. But most fruit bars are filled with overly sweet and sugar-filled jam; this recipe, however, is all about fresh fruit, because when fresh fruit is in season, there’s no excuse not to take full advantage of it. Here we’re honoring one of summer’s … Read more
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery After years of rigorous, exhaustively documented testing in both the backcountry and the frontcountry, I feel confident in stating that the spoon is the most superior eating utensil ever created. Yes, you’ve … Read more
As the owner of a Vanagon Syncro for the last seven years, I’ve watched the rise and then explosion of the #vanlife phenomenon with no small measure of bemusement. (That’s mine, above, FWIW.) What you almost never see in the Instagram feeds are the flatbed tow trucks (“Sorry, kids, if your vehicle’s four-wheel-drive it’s going … Read more
Stones: We’ve built pyramids and castles with them and painstakingly cleared them out of farm fields, using them to build low walls for fencing. We marvel at the rocks in the Grand Canyon, Arches and Grand Teton national parks. Yet a perplexing practice has been gaining ground in our wild spaces: People have begun stacking … Read more