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In This Issue
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Intro Intro
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Mementos, Notes, and Fragments Mementos, Notes and Fragments
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Recommended Reading Recommended Reading
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Essay The Climbing Mind
Finding routes in the most unlikely of places
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Appreciation The Mystery Bike
A photo unearthed from the deep past hints at joyful common ground
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Natural Curiosities Natural Curiosities: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough—To Escape Physics
Here's why Mount Everest likely represents the earth's geologic ceiling
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Feature Drawing On a Wild Life
Artist Jeremy Collins is searching for stories, stability, and, occasionally, solitude
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Feature Different Air, Different Light
When the world stands still, the idea of meaningful travel takes on new dimensions
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Feature Higher Calling
More than mere guidebook, Freedom of the Hills has lifted the lives of generations of mountain lovers
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Feature The Ghost In The Tent
He thru-hiked from New York to Florida. He met dozens along the way. But two years after he died in his tent, no one knows who this mystery man was
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Feature Poetry Under Foot
A rebuilding of one of the world's most spectacular trails uses human psychology to create beauty and flow
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Portfolio Archives of a Wild Planet
A photographer goes eye to eye with species to fight extinction and save the planet
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Feature Two Wheels and a Dirt Path to Healing
Can mountain biking help restore mental health? Signs point strongly to 'yes'
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Historical Badass Historical Badass: Nursing Polar Ambitions
Barbara Hillary was the first black woman to reach the North and South poles—and she did it in her 70s
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Feature Mining a Richer Vein
Austin Bradley wants to create a recreational paradise deep in Central Appalachia—and revive two towns in the process. It's a fight he refuses to lose
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Feature The New Clean Climbing
In the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp, should offensive route names be sanitized?
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Three Square Three Square
The arrival of summer is always welcome, and this year especially we savor the fresh air and clean start that come with the new season
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Portfolio Portfolio: The Voyageur
When Mike Ranta paddled across Canada for the third time, photographer David Jackson followed in his own canoe
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