To those with restless, wandering souls, the promise of a frontier, a hazy zone marking the edge of the known and what lies over the horizon, is a...
Read moreAdventure Journal has more than 3,000 stories in our archive, most of which are evergreen. We like to put our most popular posts back on the homep...
Read moreIan Frazier is a national treasure. He's maybe best known as a longtime New Yorker columnist and features writer, covering pretty much anything th...
Read moreI bought my car, a teenage Subaru with three hubcaps and two working windows, because I knew I could stretch out in the back. I tried it before I ...
Read moreIn a career full of superhuman stories, Charlie Porter's 1975 climb on Baffin Island's Mt. Asgard stands out: He took a month just to ski in all hi...
Read moreWash your hydration bladder. If not right now, tonight. If not tonight, tomorrow. If not tomorrow, well, how's your immune system? A few summers a...
Read moreOn a camping trip in southern Utah, my brother, a friend, and I pulled up late one night to a flat, open sandy area just off a road through BLM l...
Read moreStones: We've built pyramids and castles with them and painstakingly cleared them out of farm fields, using them to build low walls for fencing. ...
Read moreI went for a trail run yesterday and logged almost two hours through the tall grass, wildflowers, and absurdly steep hills in my back yard. That I...
Read moreI’ve always pictured myself with a partner who wants to explore the world with me, that stereotypical romantic vision of a soulmate with whom to s...
Read moreFor thirty years, Dick Proenneke lived alone in the Alaskan wilderness. He lived in a cabin he built with his own hands. He had no running water a...
Read moreHistory’s greatest ocean rowing career started with a classified ad. It was 1972 and Peter Bird was selling velvet paintings door-to-door, the lat...
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