A Few Words About Adventure Journal's New Direction
Dear friends, After 14 years (holy smokes!) of Adventure Journal as an online magazine updated multiple times a day, often from my mobile office ...
Read moreDear friends, After 14 years (holy smokes!) of Adventure Journal as an online magazine updated multiple times a day, often from my mobile office ...
Read moreIn Girdwood, Alaska, we’ll long remember the snowstorm of Dec. 6, just three months ago. But it won’t be for the school cancellations. We’ll reme...
Read moreEver turn a cup upside down in the bath or a pool and dunk it below the surface? The cup bobs there, buoyed by a pocket of air trapped in the b...
Read moreThere are some pieces of heavy, complicated gear you bring on hikes or camp trips that aren’t necessarily required, per se, but that you might re...
Read moreIn 1854, Abigail Becker married a widower and moved to a small, rugged trapper’s cabin on Long Point, Lake Erie, in very remote Ontario, Canada, ...
Read moreFirst, the indescribable view. Earth, many miles below, twinkling blue, whorls of white and grey clouds. Home is down there somewhere, familiar f...
Read moreIf you’re like us you have a few technical backpacks and daypacks and for day trips out to the backcountry, you’ll stuff one of those with the, w...
Read more"OH SHIT," I wrote in my journal. "All the light was just sucked out of the sky. The woods are VERY DARK." It was my first solo backcountry trip, ...
Read moreBeing a beginner sucks. There’s nothing worse. If you’ve managed to survive to adulthood while preserving even the tiniest, most minuscule shred o...
Read moreJust north of Santa Barbara lies a little surfing Shangri-La. It’s the private Hollister Ranch, 14 miles of pristine Southern California coastlin...
Read moreIn November 1937, Haldane “Buzz” Holmstrom sat in the sand below Lava Cliff, the last substantial rapid in Grand Canyon. He’d come nearly 1,000...
Read moreRoald Amundsen There's no evidence of this, but surely there must have been a saying among the great polar explorers of the nineteenth and early ...
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