Resources

We’ve already said enough about the Henrys. If you want to know more, you’ll figure it out.

Leath Tonino is a freelance writer and regular contributor to Adventure Journal. He’s the author of two essay collections about the outdoors, most recently The West Will Swallow You. Bless his heart, he has no website or social media accounts.

Forest Woodward is the most aptly named nature and adventure photographer in the biz. He’s based in Montana, though not necessarily in a forest. forestwoodward.com, @forestwoodward

Pacific Northwest photographer Riley Seebeck is a senior photographer for Freehub. rileyseebeck.com, @rileyseebeck

In addition to being a flat-out blast, the biennial Ruta del Jefe is proactively diverse. Organizer Sarah Swallow traditionally offers priority registration for BIPOC and LBGTQ+ people, as well as some travel scholarships. The 2022 Ruta participants were comprised of forty-six percent women, forty-two percent men, and ten percent non-binary. rutadeljefe.com, @rutadeljefe

Kyle DeNuccio is a features editor at Emocean magazine and a contributing writer at The Surfer’s Journal. He’s currently working on a novel about surf and tech cultures. This is his first feature for AJ. @kyledenuccio

Trust us on this one, even if you don’t know a three mil Allen from a T5 Torx, Shop Class As Soulcraft will touch your heart. A rejection of the idea that knowledge work and manual work are different, it’s an ode to the satisfactions of getting your hands dirty and making or fixing stuff yourself. As Francis Fukuyama put it in the New York Times, Shop Class “is a beautiful little book about human excellence.” Get it where you get books.

Victor Stanciu is a Romanian-born software engineer living in Austria. He blogs at tegowerk.com.

Despite his enduring reputation among students of mountaineering, Vittorio Sella remains little-known in North America. His biography by Ronald Clark, The Splendid Hills, was published in 1948 and sells for $150, if you can find it. More recently (2010), Gangemi Editore published Frozen In Time: The Mountain Photography of Vittorio Sella, which costs about $40 on Amazon. But, and we are burying the lede here, you can buy prints of Sella’s photos from Fondazione Sella, which keeps his work—and that of other pioneering photographers—alive in an archive and library in Biella, which you can and should visit. All photos are copyright and used courtesy of Fondazione Sella. fondazionesella.org

You know ephemeral means, um, ephemeral…as in not permanent…which also means if you want to have adventures on these temporary water forms, you gotta act fast. Death Valley’s Lake Manly grew to six miles by three miles after Hurricane Hilary in 2023 and atmospheric rivers in February 2024, but by the time the national park roads were cleared of flood debris, the lake was open to kayaking and SUPing for just a few weeks. After that, it closed to prevent drag marks on the flats, which, in the driest place in the US, would last years.

Southern California-based photographer and writer Stuart Palley is best known for his work shooting wildfires—more than one hundred in the last decade—so a project centered on water was a refreshing relief. stuartpalley.com, @stuartpalley

Wanna connect the dots between two AJ stories? Sample the via ferrata in Telluride, Colorado, when aspens are at their golden height. It’s a three-mile loop hike, run, climb with views that are—and we only use this word when we mean it—stunning. San Juan Mountain Guides will show the ropes, er, cables, mtnguide.net. Already know what you’re doing? Jagged Edge is the place for via-specific gear, jagged-edge-telluride.com

Author Craig Childs has published more than a dozen books of science, nature, and personal experience. His nonfiction narratives and journalism have appeared in Adventure Journal, The Atlantic, Outside, The Sun, the LA Times, New York Times, NPR, and Radiolab. His next book, The Wild Dark: Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light, will be published in spring 2025, followed by a book on mountain lions. @wandercrag

Paper prices are rising, but at last check, books cost less than cabins, so if you want affordable inspiration, German publisher Gestalten is the perfect place to start. Their titles include Rock the Shack, Hideouts, Sublime Hideaways, Cabin Fever, Parklife Hideaways, and Surf Shacks, the last of which we excerpted in AJ33. Looking for more hands-on inspiration? The 1914 classic Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties is available in print or as a free e-book through Project Gutenberg, gutenberg.org

Refreshingly, and unlike so many architect-design cabins, Lambkill Ridge is not for rent on Airbnb. But if you like its style, swing by the website of the designer/builder Peter Braithwaite and peruse. You never know where it will lead—these cabins, after all, came about after a spontaneous meeting while walking dogs. peterbraithwaitestudio.com

The recipes in this issue are excerpted and adapted from Dirty Gourmet: Plant Power, Mountaineers Books, 2023. Why a book on vegan camp cooking? Because if you’re writing a cookbook for all diets, “It’s much easier to start with a vegan recipe as a base, then add or substitute animal products if you’d like, rather than start with animal-based recipes, then try to make them vegan,” says Mai-Yan Kwan, Dirty Gourmet crew member. Dirty Gourmet’s first cookbook, Dirty Gourmet, was published by Mountaineers Books in 2018. dirtygourmet.com, @dirtygourmet