The first time Corina Newsome saw a pileated woodpecker, she wept. It was winter in Northeast Ohio and thick flakes were blanketing the earth outside. She’d lea...
In a win for veterans, President Trump Sunday signed into law the Accelerating Veterans Recovery Outdoors Act as part of the Veterans COMPACT Act, which will ma...
Editor's note: This article was first published on May 21, 2020. It was updated again on November 24, 2020 with the latest best practices for responsible winter...
You probably know Cotopaxi as the outdoor brand with bright patterns that make you look twice and grin. But it isn’t only that.
Rewind to 2001, when Davis Sm...
For millennia, tens of millions of bison, also called buffalo, roamed the North American continent, critical to the Great Plains ecosystem and to the cultural a...
The transition back to civilian life after seven years as a forward observer in the Army was more difficult than REI Regional Product Insights Manager Jason Kno...
For all the comfort nature provides—a respite from stress, a break in routine, a midweek thrill—there’s also a mysterious side to the outdoors. Once night falls...
This op-ed represents the opinions of Corey Buhay.
Months ago, I was floating down the home stretch of a 20-day, 279-mile Grand Canyon rafting trip. I’d spen...
For this ghost story from pitmaster and YETI ambassador, Matt Pittman, you may want a stiff drink. Luckily, Matt knows just the thing: a smoky Old Fashioned or ...
In 1995, butterfly expert and nature writer Dr. Robert Pyle trekked for more than a month through Washington’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest, a 76,000-acre re...
As CEO of an outdoor company, a veteran and someone who prioritizes time outdoors in my own life, I am keenly aware of the importance of time in nature for heal...
For a while, it looked like Ernesto Martinez Hellmund’s life as a surf guide was over. Yet here he was on a hot summer day in August 2019 kicking out of a long,...