culture
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 under your ass to either a) get ...
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podcast
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 Mountains. ...
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historical badass
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 place at the top of...
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books
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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