Threat of radiation announced last month may have been overstated, say Grand Canyon National Park officials. See the full post >

Love travel? You’ll love this short. See the full post >

I split my time between living outside Yosemite National Park and in Los Angeles. That I have the chance to see mountain lions in both places provides me with unending awe, and with hope: If a mountain lion can live in the middle of Los Angeles, wildness and wild things just might have a future […]

Jennifer Bolande’s “Visible Distance” showed drivers the views they were missing. See the full post >

The time to subscribe for AJ12 is nigh. Actually, it’s now. See the full post >

Per Sollerman, the self-proclaimed “oldest Swede in Norway” is a photographer and devoted natural ice skater, taking to the frozen lakes, rivers, and ponds near his Oslo, Norway, home. This short features Sollerman walking us through how he fell in love with Nordic Skating, the practice of choosing your own lines on frozen bodies of […]

Normally, I like to leave my final thoughts about a piece of gear until the end of a review, but I’ll say it right up front with this one: The brand new Vasque Breeze LT GTX ($170) boots are the most comfortable hikers I’ve ever worn. Not just comfortable—they’re badass hikers. They climb. They grip […]

I can say from experience that the two most common topics of conversation on a long hike are eating and pooping. While the latter should be somewhat self-explanatory, we asked four incredibly accomplished long-distance hikers—with a collective total of over 56,000 miles of hunger pangs under their ultralight belts—about the former to learn how they […]

It happened rather quickly, but the Land Water Conservation Fund is now permanent, after historic bi-partisan Dingell Act sails through Congress and the White House. See the full post >

In the ‘90s, Pakistan’s music and nightlife scene was flourishing. Then came terrorism, and an end to all that. But now, spurred on by a desire to bring Pakistan back to the world, artists like house duo Fake Shamans are turning the volume up again.   Nice evening in the Punjab, Pakistan. The sun’s going […]