A campfire, toasted s’mores and great conversation on a summer night under the stars might sound like an ideal way to hang with your friends—until you realize t...
Bike to Work Month encourages people to abandon their cars, exercise and save on transportation costs. What’s not to like?
Well, okay, there is the little pr...
For some people, romantic date ideas include dinner and a local theatre show, strolling through vineyards after sipping on sauvignon blanc or rowing across pond...
It’s hard not to smile when you’re on a bike. It’s nearly impossible to not smile if that bike is a mountain bike.
The sound of a 29er blazing down a singlet...
Last time on Girl Talk, we discussed tips and tricks for how to pee in the backcountry. Now, by popular demand, please find our outdoor women’s guide for handli...
A mountainous, strikingly diverse and beautiful country wedged between Colombia and Peru on South America’s Pacific coast, Ecuador has every type of ecosystem f...
Under the shade of a pecan grove in the middle of the Texas Hill Country, nearly 100 people joined REI for a weekend at the Lyndon B Johnson National Park (LBJ)...
We climbers are infamous for our ability to make home on the road. Unafraid to sleep in our cars and able to get by with very little, we do whatever it takes to...
Chris Kasper is hard to get hold of. When I propose talking to him on a Friday afternoon in late April, we have to work around times when his phone might have r...
As the adage goes, “Never try something new on race day.”
This goes for everything from gear to technique to, above all, nutrition. Just because an accomplis...
From the first step through an unzipped tent door, to the trail runs in first light when the mountain seems all yours, there is magic to be found outside, espec...
The rain in New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park would make fans of the Pacific Northwest climate grin like idiots. Receiving weather that has blown across tho...
