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Here’s a Little Something to Get You Stoked on Walking
It’s easy to take walking for granted, to dismiss it when judged against an outdoors life packed with exciting gear like skis and kayaks and bike...
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historical badass
Mary Barr Fought Expectations as First Female Forest Service Air Boss
When Mary Barr was pregnant with her first child, she knew she wanted a woman obstetrician to deliver her baby. But she lived in rural, isolated n...
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gear
Is the Patagonia Work Wear Jacket a Down Puffy Beater?
A few years ago, I profiled Bay Area naturalist/artist/author Obi Kaufmann for our print publication. We went for a hike. I wore a synthetic shirt...
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culture
The Art of Apprehensive Adventuring
Ravine Cyrique, Dominica, 2008 Halfway down the rope ladder, I paused to collect myself. “Are you sure about this?” I asked. But there was no one...
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culture
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 ...
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culture
Even My Tiny Alaskan Town Is Getting Screwed By the Housing Crisis
In 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...
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historical badass
Hannes Keller Showed the World Humans Could Reach the Ocean’s Black Depths
Ever 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...
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gear
A Review of Questionable Utility: My Adventure Toddler
There 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...
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historical badass
Abigail Becker Might the Baddest Badass You’ve Never Heard Of
In 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, ...
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historical badass
Joseph Kittinger, the Man Who Dove to Earth
First, the indescribable view. Earth, many miles below, twinkling blue, whorls of white and grey clouds. Home is down there somewhere, familiar f...
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gear
Is YETI’s Camino Carryall a Backpack Killer?
If 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...
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culture
Stop Telling Women Not to Go Into the Backcountry Alone
"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, ...
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