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Climbing the Grand Teton is a three- to four-day adventure and unless you have big mountain alpine skills, connecting with Jackson Hole Mountain Guides is your best bet. They run trips on the peak in summer and winter, with costs ranging from $2,100 to $3,280. They’re also quite direct, as you’ll see on their website: “From there, you will enjoy a leisurely 7 mile hike up beautiful Garnet Canyon. The hike, while very scenic, does gain 4200 feet and requires a certain level of fitness and will.” A certain level indeed, LOL. themountainguides.com

Graham Averill is a writer living in North Carolina. His last feature for Adventure Journal was “The Future is Looking Up” in AJ23.

Yvon Chouinard…you might have heard of him. He’s the founder of Patagonia. In 2023, Time magazine named Chouinard one of the hundred most influential people on the planet. You might have heard him chuckling over this. In 2022, he and his wife Malinda, along with their two children, transferred their ownership of the $3 billion company to a purpose trust, and committed all future profits (about $100 million per year) to a nonprofit collective devoted to fighting the climate crisis and conserving land. patagonia.com

In places such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Rome, and of course Africa, motorcycles, mopeds, and scooters are the people’s transport. In North America, not so much. But if you’re looking for a ride more powerful than an e-bike and less polluting than a four stroke, consider the electric options from UBCO (30 mph max, up to 75-mile range) and Cake (56 mph max, 3-hour range). ubco.com, ridecake.com

Mark Jenkins lives in western Tanzania with his wife Martha Jenkins and remains a joyful 14-year-old when riding his little motorbike through African villages. Note: It’s not all bug-splattered grins, as he’s wiped out at least a half dozen times. markjenkins.net

Lewis and Clark’s report to President Thomas Jefferson upon completion of their two and a half year odyssey contains no mention of bears in pants.

This story first appeared on The Occasional, Funny Or Die’s journal of American humor, theoccasional.com. Author Zack Poitras is a writer, actor, and director, and recently co-created and co-starred in Funny Or Die’s High Science (Discovery/Discovery+/Max). zackpoitras.com. More illustrations from Gregor Louden can be found at gregorlouden.com.

The perfect adventure vehicle doesn’t exist. Go with what you have. It’s summer. Go now.

Aaron Gilbreath’s essays have appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The Dublin Review and been nominated for a James Beard Award. His third book, The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley, was a finalist for the 2022 Oregon Book Award. @prowlinggila

Packrafting curious? Don’t even think about putting in without reading The Packraft Handbook by rafting pioneer Luc Mehl. It’s been called The Freedom of the Hills of packrafting, and we concur. thingstolucat.com

Alpacka offers more than a dozen models, with the full-size Caribou weighing just 5.1 pounds. alpackaraft.com. Sheri Tingey’s story has been told in film as well as print, in the documentary Sheri, directed by AJ senior contributing photographer James Q Martin.

Page Buono is a writer and filmmaker rooted to the Southwest, currently residing in San Diego. Her most-recent film work can be seen in the PBS series Human Footprint. pagebuono.com, @pagebuono

You can follow Jared Fenstermacher’s Appalachian Trail progress—and connect with him to help on his next effort—at facebook.com/nofearhiker.

Photographer and filmmaker Christopher Beauchamp specializes in adventure, but his projects also include covering health care workers during an ebola outbreak and the supposed connection between albinism and witchcraft. christopherbeauchamp.com, @christopherbeauchamp

Making your own paint from soil is a lot of work—we know, because we’ve tried. Far better to rely on Karen Vaughan’s expertise. Her sets of watercolors, with wooden palettes created by her husband, Rob Vaughan, are themselves works of art. theartofsoil.com, @theartofsoil

Krista Langlois is a freelance journalist based in Durango, Colorado. She writes from a little house next to a big mesa, which bleeds rivulets of red soil into the street when it rains hard. kristaleelanglois.com, @cestmoiLanglois, @krista_lee_langlois

From its humble origins, the Modern House Cabin has become a big deal, with 167,000 subscribers to its YouTube channel alone. Eugenia Diaz’s channel, where she posts videos of off-grid living and organic gardening, has nearly 200,000 subscribers. At modernhousecabin.com, you can purchase plans and a step-by-step guide to build your own version for €399, about $435, or individual plans for the structure, layout, pull-out desk, and composting toilet. youtube.com/c/ModernHouseCabin, youtube.com/c/EugeniaDiaz

The Ecology Center and its 28-acre regenerative organic farm are a beacon of light in Southern California, with film showings, community meals created by chef Doug Settle, music, and education. Team AJ can be found there often. theecologycenter.org

This is photographer and filmmaker Jackson Casimiro’s second Three Square production. His recent film work includes projects for Overland Expo, Redarc Electronics, and Bound for Nowhere. jacksoncasimiro.com, @jacksoncasimiro

In addition to climbing cholitas, Todd Antony has photographed cholitas luchadoras (wrestlers), the drivers of Japan’s crazily adorned dekotora trucks, and the Sun City Poms, a cheerleading troupe whose ages range from 55 to 86. toddantony.com, @toddantonyphoto