Hoo boy, today’s Overlandia subject just might be the coolest all-purpose vehicle since the ’77 Buick Regal I owned as a 16-year-old that I (unsafely) fitted with all-terrain tires when my auto shop teacher wasn’t watching and wheeled through some surprising terrain on the way home from school. But you don’t want to read about […]
Dixie is the biggest national forest in Utah, spanning 170 miles across the southern reaches of the state. What’s your fancy? Dramatic red and orange canyons? Dixie’s full of ’em. High alpine lakes? Dixie’s loaded. Fields of aspens, fluttering hypnotically in the breeze? Yep, you’ll find plenty of those in DNF too. This short film […]
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Voting with your dollars, putting your money where your mouth is—whatever you’d like to call it—making buying decisions based on the politics, ethics, or values of the brand selling you their products appears to be an increasing motivation for customers. According to a study recently released by Edelman, an international marketing firm, so-called “belief-driven buyers”—pardon […]
A few weeks back, PrimaLoft announced it had developed something called PrimaLoft Bio, an insulation made from recycled and, here’s the kicker, biodegradable synthetic fibers. Now it’s announced it’s also figured out how to make recycled and biodegradable synthetic performance fabric. This is a pretty big deal—if it performs well and catches on. You probably […]
Yesterday, via the miracle of technology, I gave a presentation to a journal class in New York while I was sitting in my office in Southern California. Not only did I put on a nice shirt, I actually wore pants. It felt like a banner day, really it did. We covered the business side of […]
In the never-ending quest to never miss a moment, do photographers run the risk of missing the point? Photographer Lola Akinmade Åkerström argues that sometimes, you just need to stop and look. “They call the snow leopard the ‘ghost cat’,” Sean whispers to Walter as they hide from view behind a rock, high in the […]
In its calmer moments, Bennett Lake, located in the southwest corner of Canada’s Yukon Territory, is a placid pool of aquamarine. When one of the area’s notorious storms blows in, however, its waters roil with a certain violence. For Leigh Swansborough and Clarissa Black, who were caught in a sudden maelstrom this summer while paddling […]
We’ve reported quite a bit recently on studies that show, more of them all the time it seems, that being in wilderness, especially being active in nature, can act as a healing salve for mental and physical ailments. For some people, thru-hikes over incredibly long distances become life-changing experiences, a kind of resetting and refreshing […]
Reports are beginning to swirl that Ryan Zinke, Trump’s scandal-plagued Secretary of the Interior and a hugely divisive figure in the outdoor community, may not be in his post for much longer. It’s not unusual for presidents to reshape their cabinets after a midterm election, especially one in which the president’s party suffers big losses, […]