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Mount St. Helens Trail Run

Mount St. Helens Trail Run

During a stretch of beautiful autumn weather last October, I traveled to the relatively remote region on the east side of Mount St. Helens with ultra-runner, Ha...
Great Cairn Hut Day Planning

Shared Solitude at Great Cairn Hut

Christina Lustenberger, Angela Percival, Forrest Coots and Eric Hjorleifson spent a week at Ben Ferris (Great Cairn) Hut in the Selkirks of British Columbia. Wa...
fitz cahall

Creatives Who Crush: Fitz Cahall

Fitz Cahall is perhaps best known as the voice behind "The Dirtbag Diaries," the podcast he started in 2007, and today has been downloaded 3 million times. He’s...
joys of minimalism

The Joys of Minimalism

His legs quivered like a baby deer. We were only two hours from the trailhead in gorgeous North Cascades National Park, where I was guiding a six-day mountainee...
Three Classic Zion Hikes

Three Classic Zion Hikes

Last year, I had two opportunities to explore Zion National Park, once in the spring and again in the fall. The limited crowds and amazing colors that present themselves before and after the summer heat left an indelible impression on me as a hiker and photographer.