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Are You Suffering from Fat Ski Syndrome?
In 1988, the Atomic Ski Company engineer Rupert Huber was asked to make a powder ski that could float on…
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The Best Portable Fire Pits for Campfires and Cooking
The first time you use a portable fire pit, a light goes on, and I’m not talking about the…
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The AJ Podcast—Apple Ultra + Smartwatches
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Tech that can replace your tech? Yeah. In this episode, Stephen Casimiro and Justin Housman are joined…
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Don’t Forget the Coffee
I’m not the careful backpacking organizer that I probably should be. Oh, once upon a time I was. But over…
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The AJ Podcast—Is Backpacking Overrated?
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. From the 1970s on, backpacking reigned supreme. Every outdoor person backpacked, or so it seemed. In a…
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Wet Hikes, Snowshoeing, Puddle Jumping, Clam Digging—These Boots Do it All
Okay, full disclosure: I have not actually gone clam digging in these boots. Does sound like fun though. But…
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Study Says Cyclists Care More About Community Good Than Drivers
Are you involved in strengthening the common good through social participation, political participation, being helpful to your neighbors and…
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Toyota Teases an Electric Pickup, While Rivian Sets a New Bar
Casimiro here. As a longtime fan and owner of Toyota trucks (rigs have included third-gen 4Runner, first-gen Sequoia, 200 series…
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The AJ Podcast—Why We Kick Cairns
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. You might have heard we have a thing against cairns. That isn’t quite true. We have a…
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Powder and Mountain Gazette Release Milestone Issues
A brand is never really dead as long as its intellectual property still has value, and hallelujah for it.…
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The 21 Best Thoreau Quotes
Henry David Thoreau could today have a fine career as a motivational speaker. If you need someone to light a fire…
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The AJ Podcast—The Spooky Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.In February 1959 in Russia, nine young ski tourers failed to return from an expedition to the Ural…
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Louise Boyd, the ‘Ice Queen’ of Greenland, Spent Her Fortune on Adventure
If you were born into fabulous wealth with no real responsibilities, what would you do? Loaf around, wealthily, assuming your…
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Book Review: How Our Roads Have Become an Invasive Species
Ours is a time of what environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb describes as an “infrastructure tsunami.” The automobile reigns supreme…
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The AJ Podcast—Are You Hardcore? Are We? Does it Matter?
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. “Well, you’re not hardcore unless you live hardcore,” sang Jack Black in “School of Rock.” In this…
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Inside The Small World of Simulating Other Worlds
In January 2023, Tara Sweeney’s plane landed on Thwaites Glacier, a 74,000-square-mile mass of frozen water in West Antarctica. She…
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The AJ Podcast—How Adventure Can Change Your Life
Episode 1 of our new podcast, The Adventure Journal Podcast, is now live. We’ve talked about it for years,…
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Actually, Do Whatever You Want With Your Subaru
Unless you’re a search and rescue team member stationed near the backcountry and you need to be ready to drive…
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Searching for Wisconsin’s Dugout Canoes
In July, at a boatyard warehouse on Chicago’s South Side, Tamara Thomsen inspected a roughly 15-foot-long canoe likely made…
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Kodiak Canvas Tent Review
My curiosity about canvas tents was first sparked along the Colorado Trail in the San Juan Mountains in autumn, when…
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The Motorcycle Queen of Miami Was More than Fast Enough
To ride a motorcycle across the United States in the 1930s meant harsh riding over unforgiving dirt roads, careful planning…
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Blowing the Whistle on Public Lands Abusers
Dozens of TVs, refrigerators, stoves, washers, dryers and abandoned cars had either been gunshot, torched or both. This place of…
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Colin Fletcher, the Father of Modern Backpacking
Lieutenant Colin Fletcher looked up from the soggy gray paper bags leaking ropy streams of yellow vomit into the bilge…
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The Boys and the Lake: How Two Backcountry Experts Met Death in Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly strides to the black-sand beach at the north end of Shoshone Lake, pausing in…
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We Can All Help Shape This Utah National Monument
When President Joe Biden restored the original boundaries of both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments in 2021, public-land…
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John Fairfax Wrestled Sharks, Rowed Across Oceans, Did a Little Gunfighting on the Side
Like a baccarat player holding his cards close to his tuxedo, the buttoned-down headline barely hints at the payout to…
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Opinion: Trails Are More Crowded Than Ever, So Here’s an Etiquette Primer
The uppermost switchback on the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon National Park is eight feet wide. Yet the last…
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The Specialized Turbo Levo Review: Testing the Specialized ‘Budget’ E-Mtb
This is the best e-mtb I’ve ever ridden. Might as well get that out of the way. I’ve owned a…
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If You Build It, They Will Come: Lessons on Trail Building from a Wyoming State Park
Between Laramie and Cheyenne, amid the rocky shrubland and aspen groves of Curt Gowdy State Park, 45 miles of trail…
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Pioneering Travel Writer Ida Pfeiffer Was Not Afraid of Cannibals
If you’re in your mid-40s and feel it’s too late to follow your dreams of hardcore, on-a-shoestring international travel for…
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Ode to John Fielder, One of the Best to Ever Raise a Camera to the Mountains
If you’ve ever bought a calendar or coffee table book featuring the grandeur of Colorado’s 14’ers, the stunning color photographs…
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Earl Shaffer, the First Thru-Hiker of the AT, Embodied the Trail’s Soul
On April 4, 1948, 29-year-old Earl Shaffer shouldered a rucksack and started hiking near Mt. Oglethorpe in Georgia. He soon…
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The Yellow Jerseys of the Fireline: Hot Shots Exert as Much Energy as Tour de France Riders
For three weeks in July, the world’s most elite bike racers climb steep mountains and sprint along historic cobblestones to…
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Minnie Mae Freeman Saved a Schoolroom Full of Children During One of the Country’s Deadliest Blizzards on Record
It was called “The Children’s Blizzard.” A powerful, quick-moving snowstorm that blasted the American Midwest on January 12, 1888. It…
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Book Review: ‘Kings of Their Own Ocean’
Spend enough time in the world of fisheries science, and you’re likely to hear an adage, coined by a researcher…
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Why’d They Call Him Snow Leopard? Because He Climbed Everest Without Oxygen 10 Times
Ang Rita Sherpa climbed Everest for the final time on May 23, 1996, alongside Göran Kropp, just days after…
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Why We Need Bigfoot, Even if it isn’t Real
I brace myself as I open my email: Another note from someone who listened to my Bigfoot podcast, Wild…
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How Rosalie Edge, the “Hawk of Mercy,” Became the Conscience of American Conservation
Rosalie Barrow Edge was 52 years old and summering in Paris when she opened the pamphlet that ignited her…
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Opinion: Leave Alaska’s Wild Bears in Peace, Please
Grizzly bears in Alaska that live around the town of Bethel, population 6,325, should have a good life as they…
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The Go-To Go Box
Entropy is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. Thanks to entropy, despite my best efforts, the inside…
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Sonia Livanos Was 99 Pounds of Rock-Climbing Dynamite
At first look, Sonia Livanos seems an unlikely climbing hero. A 99-pound weekend warrior who was born and raised at…
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Influencing, What, Exactly?
A spectacular picture recently appeared on social media of a young lady in Arizona. She was poised on the edge…
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Don Flickinger Explored Jungles to Save Crashed WW2 Airmen
The Patkai mountains are small for the Himalaya: Only 12,552 feet at their highest. But on August 2nd 1943, they…
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Sometimes Your Truck Breaks Down in a Gorgeous Basin and Your Life Is Forever Changed
Douglas Balmain weaved through mushroom fairy rings more lush than usual for this time of year, noting the expansion of…
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Mt. Rainier Legend Dee Molenaar Was the Last ‘Brother of the Rope’
In early August 1953, the American Karakoram Expedition was hunkered at more than 25,200 feet on the Abruzzi Spur of…
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The Dark, Spectacular Beauty of Astronomy-Adventuring
For years, small groups of astronomy enthusiasts have traveled the globe chasing the rare solar eclipse. They have embarked on…
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Gear Review: Ignik Gas Growler
Late at night, when the kids have run you ragged and you’ve had a beer or two, 8s can look…
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Alfonsina Strada, The ‘Devil In A Dress’ Who Rode The World’s Toughest Tour
They don’t do bike races like they used to. Take the Giro d’Italia, one of the world’s longest and most…
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The Story of a Bonk: Or, How Red Vines Saved a Life
I’d moved to Grand Junction months before and had gotten a good feel for the trails, but wanted a little…
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Restoring the Land Can Feel a Lot Like Fun
Driving back to Colorado State University with a van full of students after a day of working to heal some…
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John Salathé, the Mystic Swiss Climber Who Changed Yosemite Forever
John Salathé, the first real icon of Yosemite climbing, didn’t see the valley for the first time until he was…
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The Right Way to Store Winter Gear for the Summer
Whether you’re mourning the snowmelt and plotting how to ski through August or you’re already gleefully breaking out sandals and shorty…
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Oskar Speck Set Off From the Danube in a Kayak—He Ended in Australia
There are a great many ways to get to Australia from Germany, nearly all of them easier than the…
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Native Alaskans Show the Feds How It’s Done
Last August, after a long day at work, Karen Linnell tossed a couple of coolers and a bag full of…
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Nick Clinch Showed the World Americans Could Make First Ascents Too
Nicholas Clinch standing, middle of back row. American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition. Photo: via AAC. Despite a nickname that makes it…
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What It Takes and Why It’s Worth It
I wake up antsy. I stand in the sun outside my front door and stretch my arms, staring at a…
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ArchiTec’s Aysen Hoodie Is Basically Perfect
As I write this, I’m wearing ArchiTec’s Aysen hoodie, but this is no big surprise, as I wear the Aysen…
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There Goes My Hero
I grew up surfing in a place where it was pretty much standard to have the lineup all to yourself.…
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First Ascent, Second Tower, Last Man
John Mowat on Symmetry Spire’s Durrance Ridge with Jenny Lake below. Photo: George Mowat. John Mowat remembers the day…
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The Wisdom of Sir Edmund Hillary
Everest was first climbed 70 years ago this week, cementing Edmund Hillary’s and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay’s place in world history.…