When my wife and I first started dating, we picked up nicknames pretty quickly: Captain Safety and Sketchmo. Captain Safety always checked people’s knots, almos...
A mountain once slated for development is now being turned into a public park. The town of Columbus, North Carolina, originally approved the construction of 687...
Mountain bikers can be difficult to understand. They use a coded lexicon that sounds like some combination of jargon and birds of paradise mating calls. I’ve be...
This week, Congress passed an $867 billion Farm Bill with new language that supports land and water conservation, and creates opportunities for the outdoor recr...
On June 23, 2018 Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, age 43, stood on the summit of Denali, the highest mountain in North America. She was the first openly gay woman to comp...
It’s happening. Winter is coming, which brings along with it shorter daylight hours. For those of us who love to get on trail year-round, no matter the temperat...
A key eight-mile section of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail (MST) was recently completed, offering backpackers a 350-mile-long trail experience in and near North Car...
It’s been a couple of years since professional snowboarder Kimmy Fasani and her pro skier husband Chris Benchetler first hit the road in their custom van, which...
Have you heard of the world’s first backpacking queen, Pattie Gonia? She’s an inspiration in six-inch heels—created by photographer Wyn Wiley as a fun side proj...
Plunging dramatically into the chilly waters of the North Atlantic, Portugal was, for centuries, considered the end of the world. Although explorers (many of Po...
As I tried to fall asleep, flashes of the ridgeline flickered behind my eyelids. Clips from the videos I’d perused earlier online, images I’d seen on Instagram....
