Mike Gauthier’s micro claim to fame, he says, is that he has climbed 31 routes on Washington’s Mount Rainier—probably more routes than anyone else, he suspects....
Eric Fine’s journey from mountaineer to climate communicator began on the slopes of Cerro Tronador, an 11,453-foot-high peak in the Argentinian Andes, where he ...
July 28, 2019, mile 8.92: I am inside my tent’s vestibule in the front yard of my ex-roommate’s single-story, beige house in the semi-industrial part of Seattle...
Climate change is imminent and action is needed, reports The United Nations. This month’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report found that the Earth’...
Hiking 14,000-foot peaks, or 14ers, takes on a special significance in Colorado. Reaching the summit isn’t simply a weekend endeavor, it’s a rite of passage for...
Editor's note: On Monday, September 16, REI Co-op CEO and President Eric Artz sent the following letter to employees.
Dear REI employees,
Right now, 300 c...
“Imagine if you're a kid and you're at the edge of Sherwood Forest—you know, Robin Hood—and it’s like, oh, it’s that dark foreboding place,” says Rick Allen.
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In this 8-part podcast series we'll gather around the campfire and try to scare each other with legends about some of America's favorite monsters. We’ll be trav...
On an unseasonably warm September weekend six years ago, I capped off my first summer in Seattle with my first backpacking trip. The destination: Rachel Lake in...
A version of this story appeared in the fall 2019 issue of Uncommon Path.
Maggie Rogers is listening to glaciers—not just in the symbolic sense, heeding the...
A version of this story appeared in the fall 2019 issue of Uncommon Path.
The Flexlite Air story begins with a problem: how to create a camp chair that weig...
