When Friends on Bikes founders Molly Sugar and Gritchelle Fallesgon moved to Portland, Oregon, from larger, more diverse cities, they took a look at the cycling community, both on and off-road, and while they saw a vibrant, passionate cycling community, they didn’t see a whole lot of diversity. Because it can often be intimidating to […]
I’ve often wanted to reincarnate as a tree. Silent, peaceful, long-living, stoic. There’s something about them that feels…wise. As humans, we look to trees for protection, shade, shelter, beauty, and comfort. Patagonia’s new film Treeline explores those themes with a handful of skiers, snowboarders, and scientists traveling through impossibly old bristlecone pine forests in Nevada, cypress […]
Did you know that there are tiger farms in China? Or that the 6,500-plus tigers there outnumber the 3,900 in the wild and that when the tigers are slaughtered their skin and bones are sold on the black market for superstition-based medicinal rites? Since 1993, when China banned the use of tiger (and rhino) parts […]
While Danner makes plenty of hardscrabble boots meant for traipsing through marshes in pursuit of game or standing all day in the mud while working construction and hiking boots so burly your grandkids will be handing them down to their grandkids, the last few years they’ve been on the forefront of building boots that will […]
It’s kinda funny that the name of this REI/Teton Gravity segment is called The Far Out Ones, because in it Jeremy Jones talks about how he’s traveled all over the world to snowboard and now is finding satisfaction close to home, in his case the Sierra Nevada or, in this road trip, Montana’s Crazy Mountains. […]
After setting her sights on space exploration, a journey along the old trade route between India and Pakistan persuaded author Kate Harris to opt for more earthly adventures—cycling the Silk Road, now the subject of her new book. Shortly after midnight on an uncharacteristically cool July night in 2006, Kate Harris and Melissa Yule cycled […]
The thing I loved most about Stuart Island was how it never seemed to change. Every summer I would come back a year older, but the mountains still loomed above the ocean, the Douglas fir trees still framed the dock, the pond still felt refreshingly cool when I ran up the hill and jumped into […]
It took three attempts, the last one on his own, but Austrian alpinist David Lama successfully made it to the top of 22,600-foot Lunag Ri on the border of Nepal and Tibet. In 2015, Lama and American mountaineer Conrad Anker turned back when they determined the margin for a safe return was thin, and in […]
In a community where the majority of locals are terrified of the water, despite relying for the ocean on their income, these Mozambicans are teaching youngsters to swim as a way of inspiring a new generation of ocean conservationists. Alberto, our usually chirpy housekeeper, has a melancholy air this morning. Most mornings, our greetings are […]
The BLM officially recognized a man who claimed an 80-acre plot of land in Alaska as the nation’s last homesteader in 1974, ending the 112-year program. The Homestead Act was, of course, written to quicken western expansion, deeding people small chunks of farmland if they worked the property for five years. But today, homesteading is […]