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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 and civil...
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podcast
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 episode, t...
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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 arrived with...
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podcast
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, and now we've finally done the dang th...
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culture
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 over hell and back to assist peopl...
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culture
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 more than a centur...
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gear
Kodiak Canvas Tent Review
My curiosity about canvas tents was first sparked along the Colorado Trail in the San Juan Mountains in autumn, when I passed a cozy-looking hunti...
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historical badass
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 for fuel and food, no...
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culture
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 destruction was ...
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historical badass
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 water swirling around his b...
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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 a beam of morni...
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culture
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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