When I first moved to Seattle 15 years ago, I didn't own a rain jacket and never had. It’s not that I didn’t spend time outside in the rain; I just got wet. Or ...
Nature is often the backdrop for the stories we tell. It’s the glacier lake we jump into; the pillowy snow we send our skis down; the wind that whips at our ten...
Can art inspire us to get outside? That’s one of the questions artist and designer Chelsea Alexander asked herself when the Outdoor Afro Inc + REI Co-op design ...
In February 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. penned a letter from a Selma, Alabama, jail, which was published as a quarter-page ad in The New York Times. In it, he ...
Back in the early 2000s, Mike Soltys was your standard broke undergraduate student at Clemson University. He marked his calendar not by term paper due dates, bu...
José Rodriguez is a Puerto Rico Army National Guard veteran who was shot 21 times as a bystander at a red light during an armed car robbery. He spent two weeks ...
On a clear day in Seattle, you can see the ancient face of Tahoma or Ta Ko Ba (təqʷuʔmaʔ), craggy and snow-capped, at once close and far away. On maps and postc...
In 1938, a group of outdoor-loving friends had a problem: They couldn’t get the quality gear they needed for their adventures at a price they could afford. They...
From the Statue of Liberty standing tall above New York Harbor to Idaho’s volcanic Craters of the Moon, national monuments protect some of our country’s most pr...
Summer; Mount Zirkel Wilderness, Colorado. It’s a little after 8am on a drizzly, see-your-breath morning in the backcountry, and the water in the Jetboil is bub...
I grew up looking forward to campfires on family trips. Someone was getting it going well before sundown, and we didn’t go to bed until the fire was on its last...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has been observed annually as a federal holiday on the third Monday of January since 1983, 15 years after the luminary’s death. It's ...
