You can purchase prints and original watercolors from Graham Franciose, with prices ranging from $40 for prints to $4,000 for large-scale paintings. gfranciose.com, @grahambunctious
You can see more of Jody MacDonald’s work and purchase prints at jodymacdonaldphotography.com, @jodymacdonaldphoto
The Emerald Mile can be found hanging from the ceiling of a boathouse run by OARS, the Grand Canyon river outfitter, on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Arizona. Visitors are welcome on weekdays between 9 and 5. oars.com
Kevin Fedarko is the author of one of the best adventure books we know, The Emerald Mile, which tells the story of this little boat, its crew, and the wild, record-breaking run down the Colorado River. His latest book, A Walk in the Park, is just as page-turning and was excerpted in Adventure Journal 33. kevinfedarko.com, @kevinfedarkoauthor
Although the activist Basque climbers succeeded in shutting down mining operations in Atxarte, it came at a cost. The mine extracted more than 500,000 tons of rock, and the scars stretch nearly a hundred meters up the wall. Atxarte S.A. also ignored a decades-old government order to rehabilitate the area, leaving behind bulldozers, cement mixers, and aging conveyor belts to rust.
Seattle-based Kade Krichko is the founder and editor of Ori, a magazine devoted to traveling and slow reading. This is his first feature for AJ. kadekrichko.com, @kadekrichko, ori-mag.com
In 2020, filmmaker Chris Simon finished her documentary on Ken Sleight, the inspiration for Ed Abbey’s character Seldom Seen Smith in The Monkey Wrench Gang. You can watch it on Vimeo for $15.
Author Sinuhe Xavier is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker who contributes regularly to AJ. It’s pronounced “sin-way.” sinuhexavier.com, @sinuhexavier
Artist Sandro Young has partnered with Patagonia, the North Face, and lots of other outdoor brands. He works under the nom d’art Dusty Nomad. sandroyoung.com, @dustynomad_
Author Sam George is one of the most passionate, entertaining storytellers you will ever meet—and a bottomless font of energy. Back in the day, when the current editor of AJ was the editor of Powder and George was the editor of Surfer, they would do mountain bike hill repeats together. One of them nearly hurled and the other told surf tales the whole time.
This story is excerpted from George’s book, Child of Storms: A Surfing Memoir in Progress, published by Di Angelo Publications. @samgeorgesurf, diangelopublications.com
Author Josh Jackson is the founder of the Forgotten Lands Project, which spotlights the nation’s least protected and most misunderstood public lands. His book about California’s Bureau of Land Management holdings, The Enduring Wild, was published in 2025. forgottenlandsproject.com, @forgottenlandsproject
Jer Collins’s Eventually a Sequoia: Stories of Art, Adventure & the Wisdom of Giants is one of those books that makes us wish we published books. It’s an honor to share such heartfelt work, and the rest of the book is every bit as entertaining and engaging as the selection we excerpted. It is printed here with the permission (of course) of Mountaineers Books, which reserves all rights, including those to promote the heck of it and get more people reading this delightful tome. We recommend buying it from an independent bookstore, not a billionaire. jercollins.com, @jer.collins
Truckee, California-based author Dillon Osleger holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in earth science, minors in hydrology and microbiology, and has taught courses on science and science communication at Montana State University and U.C. Santa Barbara. So he’s, like, smart. dillonosleger.com
This story was written in the 1930s—wilderness ethos and medicine have evolved since then. We shouldn’t have to say it, but just to be clear: Do not collect snakes, lizards, or any critter for any use whatsoever. Also, the old advice to suck out the poison and/or tie a tourniquet around your limb is ineffective and dangerous; it could lead to amputation. If you’re one of the 7,000 to 8,000 people bit by a venomous snake annually in the United States, keep the bite location below heart level and git your butt to medical care, stat.
Roman Dial is professor emeritus of biological sciences at Alaska Pacific University and the author of The Adventurer’s Son: A Memoir. @dialroman
In case you haven’t noticed, the recipes we feature in Three Square are mostly vegan. There are two reasons for this: One, for lots of recipes, it’s easier to add animal products than remove them. Two, eating more plants and fewer animal products is one of the best lifestyle changes you can make to fight climate change. It’s not like you’re going to waste away; bears, despite their love of salmon, eat mostly berries and other fine vegetative foods.
The recipes in this issue are excerpted and adapted from Dirty Gourmet: Plant Power, Mountaineers Books, 2023. Dirty Gourmet’s first cookbook, Dirty Gourmet, was published by Mountaineers Books in 2018. dirtygourmet.com, @dirtygourmet
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