Who cares how you funded your nice van or thru-hike? What matters is that you’re spending time outside. A few weeks ago, someone put a sticker saying “Does this Sprinter van make my trust fund look big?” on my friend…

> A black man, a Mexican American woman, and a Filipino American man walked into a park. On a gloomy Aprilafternoon in Seattle, they’d been given a set of coordinates and were instructed to find each one, in sequence, using…

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> Failing to properly take care of your tent, backpack, sleeping bag, and other essentials will dramatically shorten their lifespan. It also tends to make things a lot smellier. Once, after a kayaking trip to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, I…

> A couple weeks ago, I was dangling from a rope on the side of El Capitan, 2,500 feet above the ground. I’m working toward free-climbing the Nose, one of the most iconic climbing routes in the world, and on…

> L.L.Bean is facing a fourth lawsuit over return-policy changes it implemented in February, when it replaced its famous lifetime guarantee with a limited one-year, receipt-required arrangement.  The suit, brought by William A. Shirley of Berkeley, California, on May 4, alleges that, by taking…

Badass Women Chronicles The Inuit Woman Who Survived the Arctic Alone Ada Blackjack had no wilderness skills before she was forced to fend for herself on a remote Arctic island—and outlived four male explorers Facebook Icon Twitter Icon sms email…

There’s more to the season than holidays and snowsports Winter. Sure, it’s great for skiing, sledding, building snow people, and the holidays—but what about all the other things we do every year during the cold months? There are lots of…

> The glutes are your largest muscles, and they ought to be among the strongest. Powerful glutes help just about every other muscle in your lower body work better. “Your glutes stabilize the trunk of your body, keeping correct posture…

> Books about cycling tend to cluster in the nonfiction section: training, travelogue/memoir, or biography/history. Fiction is rare, and novels about bike racing rarer still. Perhaps that’s because the sport produces such amazing true stories that it needs no embellishment:…