I moved to Seattle six years ago via bicycle. Right away I heard about a popular trail called Mount Si and wanted to check it out. By car it’s a 45-minute jaunt...
Long before it was Steelworkers Park, the little plot of slag at the confluence of Lake Michigan and the Calumet River was part of South Works: a U.S. Steel man...
Each fall our skies fill with the wings of migrating raptors. This ancient migration spans two hemispheres, binding our backyards to the forests of the far nort...
We’ve all made mistakes in the great outdoors. It’s just part of the journey. Maybe it’s a trip over a rock, packing two left climbing shoes or hitting an icy p...
If you’ve been outside in the rain, you’re probably familiar with GORE®, best known for its waterproof, breathable and windproof GORE-TEX® fabrics. Many conside...
In September, the North Carolina Forest Service cut the ribbon on Headwaters State Forest, opening to the public a 6,730-acre tract of mountains and streams alo...
On Sunday, American ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson became the first people to ski from the 27,940-foot summit of Lhotse, the fourth-highest mo...
When I zipped up my mountain bike jersey earlier this year, I felt an all-too-familiar sense of disappointment. It was tight in the shoulders and too short. Whe...
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is truly a wild place, where wolves, moose and elk roam free in dense forests of aspen, maple and pine. Known by locals as the U.P., ...
After a long climb, I watched my friends disappear, one by one, down the trail. My turn. I gripped the handlebar, stood up on my pedals and accelerated. My bike...
Sophie Speidel, an ultrarunner from Charlottesville, Virginia, was used to training in the late afternoon—between 3:30 and 6pm—when she made the U.S. Women’s Na...
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Rue Mapp is a true force of nature. The activist, nature-lover and mom of three founded Outdoor Afro as a blog in 2009 and has since grown it to b...
