Editor’s note: REI was honored to be a sponsor of the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games and the presenting sponsor of the Stand Up Paddle Board event.
The Spec...
Chances are, you run the same 5-mile loop right from your house every time you lace up your sneakers. And that’s great—you’re getting out there. But sometimes, ...
Just outside Matt Baatz’s house in Pittsfield, Vermont, a 25-mile network of mountain bike trails climbs about 1,000 vertical feet. Baatz is the trail manager f...
For the second year, REI Co-op has teamed up with the crew behind The Moth to bring live storytelling events about the outdoors to local communities. The Moth b...
Diedre Tanenberg grew up exploring the outdoors. The 33-year-old REI Outdoor School instructor was raised on the West Coast, where she acquired a passion for pu...
There was a time when the external frame pack was the backpacker’s workhorse. Now, though, spotting one along the trail is like seeing a classic car on the high...
Jerry Brown was a 39-year-old Coloradan living in Texas when he read a newspaper article in 1989 about a multi-use trail that traversed 486 miles across his hom...
Beth Rodden on rock climbing, living in Yosemite and re-framing the perfectionist mindset.
Beth Rodden started climbing in indoor gyms when she was 14. ...
Pete Ripmaster has been trying to play more golf lately. Eighteen holes is a far cry from the ultramarathons the Asheville-based runner is accustomed to, but he...
Next spring, 33 individuals will become the nation’s first professionals with an Outdoor Product Design and Development (OPDD) degree from Utah State University...
I wasn’t prepared for the shaved legs. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not above the luxuries of smooth skin and streamlined wound care. It’s just the sea of well-defin...
The outdoors is for all. And every now and then we need to take a moment to celebrate the voices that aren’t always heard. That’s why we took to the streets thi...
