When I was in my twenties, I devised a boot camp for friends new to ski mountaineering. It was offered somewhat tongue in cheek, but a few took it seriously. Th...
Because you gotta get up to get down
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If you’ve spent at least a few weekends in a tent, you’ve likely got a few tricks up your sleeve for making car camping meals, snacks and drinks as tasty and ha...
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Looking west from Seattle, the skyline of Olympic National Park is defin...
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Being a mountain guide is tough. It takes experience, grit and the ability to constantly put others' needs before your own. I've been a mountain guide for three...
Whether its bouldering, mountaineering or river rafting, we know adventure moms get after it.
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Brendan Leonard, creator of semi-rad.com, is a good dude with a powerful story to tell. The following is an excerpt from his book Sixty Meters to Anywhere publi...
To snap her stunning images of paragliding in the Pakistani Karakoram, expedition skiing in Alaska, BASE jumping on Baffin Island or freediving off the coast of...
REI member Hugh Holborn was drinking morning coffee at his home in St. Augustine, Florida, when he received an email from REI inviting him to the co-op’s annual...
Ask any woman trail runner what she loves about her sport, and she’s likely to talk your ear off expounding on its many gifts—the sense of freedom, the experien...
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Santa Cruz redwoods, Crested Butte aspens, Phoenix sagua...