Despite its reputation for urban sprawl, greater Los Angeles is actually a hiking hotbed. From on-trail views of iconic landmarks to stunning waterfalls to rugg...
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is among the most biodiverse landscapes managed by the National Park Service, with more than 19,000 documented species livin...
OK, it’s not really a secret. You can basically spit on Denver from the top of Arapahoe Basin’s East Wall, and the mountain is typically one of the country’s fi...
Uncommon Challenge is a bimonthly column where we challenge each other to make unusual gear additions, subtractions and swaps. All challenges (and subsequent bo...
Recipe: Fire Roasted Eggplant
Submitted by: Scott
Hometown: Seattle, WA
What do you love about this recipe? I love this recipe because (1) It uses eggplant...
GeThe North Face and REI have joined forces to launch REWIND NATURE, a series that springs from our desire to roll back time—to when the Earth was cleaner, cool...
The North Face and REI have joined forces to launch REWIND NATURE, a series that springs from our desire to roll back time—to when the Earth was cleaner, cooler...
I’ve experienced it over and over again, and I bet you have too: When I’m going through something stressful, I find that one of the only things that really make...
Steep switchbacks flanked by tall evergreens slowed the progress of Gillian Larson, age 22, and her mother, Jodi Johnson, age 53, hiking the High Sierra Trail i...
When the sun sets at 5pm, that leaves plenty of time to hatch crazy ideas. Take, for example, the sport of fat-tire biking. Who would have thought that riding o...
Three months ago I visited my father in a New York City hospital as he awaited a heart transplant due to a deeply weakened chamber. He couldn’t leave the cardia...
For the first time since 2015, the biggest event in mountain bike racing is coming back to the United States. Next month, some 10,000 people will converge on Sn...
