Big Wall Beverly Johnson Changed the Calculus of Yosemite Climbing
In 1969, Beverly Johnson left school in the last semester of her geology studies for a more hands-on education in California granite, culminating...
Read moreIn 1969, Beverly Johnson left school in the last semester of her geology studies for a more hands-on education in California granite, culminating...
Read moreIn a blog post earlier this week, beloved cycling apparel brand Kitsbow announced they were closing their doors for good after 11 years and one cr...
Read moreI’ve been working on a bike equation lately, toying with variables in my head as I zoom along single track trails, or cruise around my town’s wind...
Read more“God has cared for these trees …but he cannot save them from fools.” — John Muir In just two years, wildfire has killed an estimated 13 to 19% of...
Read moreTrina Moyles looked at the job description for a fire tower lookout job in northern Canada’s Boreal forest and lingered for a moment on this line...
Read moreIn the early 1970s the major Yosemite climbing proving ground was an area called the Nabisco Wall, a series of vertical cracks that would have be...
Read moreJust before the first plump rain drops fell, followed by the biting sting of hail, the temperature dropped by a good ten degrees. We were just set...
Read moreKevin Maynard doesn’t bat an eye at these conditions. Highway 28 is visible, after all, and it’s not snowing. Still, as the Wyoming Department o...
Read moreHow should humans care for the beings that share the planet with us? This is one of the defining questions of our time. Between 1970 and 2018, w...
Read moreAbout 12 years or so ago I bumped into an older middle-aged couple on the John Muir Trail whose amazing, crazy-strong legs changed how I viewed b...
Read moreShackleton suffered tremendous adversity and pain and overcame the fear of starvation, freezing, and death. But did he ever willingly subject him...
Read moreCast Iron pans are a ubiquitous part of camping lore. We love them, we do. But a couple years back I picked up a carbon steel pan for my home kitc...
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