To run all day is one thing. To keep pounding the trail through the night while racing against a ticking clock is a level of suffering few are willing to endure...
The importance of voting is clear. But for some, it’s not as simple as mailing in a ballot or driving to the polls. Language barriers, work constraints, family ...
In the U.S. 2016 general election, about 40% of eligible voters didn’t cast a ballot. Among the most-cited reasons for not voting were disliking the candidates ...
This article will be updated in the coming weeks as additional voting guides become available.
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Waterfalls are among the most photographed natural features on earth. But anyone who has ever taken a smartphone photo of one knows they can be tricky subjects....
Austin, Texas, isn’t without trails. In fact, this notoriously outdoorsy, hip town in the center of the state has quite a few of them. But currently, many of th...
As part of REI’s #everytrailconnects campaign, I was asked to answer the question of why are trails meaningful to me. As a professional skier and mountaineer, t...
When you think of backcountry camping, endangered habitat and sea turtles, you don’t often combine that image with mansions from the Gilded Age, but that’s exac...
As part of a video project I was working on recently, I got the chance to get my hands on a new cooler in the YETI line: the Tundra 65.
I’d been hearing abou...
Actor Nick Offerman appears in the new film “A Walk in the Woods,” based on the best-selling book by Bill Bryson, as none other than an REI employee helping the...
Mount Columbia might just be the most hated of Colorado’s 54 fourteeners (“14ers”), mountains that rise to an elevation of 14,000 feet or greater. Located in Co...
Thriving on human-powered adventures of all kinds out our back door in Vermont’s Green Mountains, we utilize a great variety of backpacks throughout the year.
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