What Is It We Love About Someone Quitting Their Job?
byMy friend Chris had a perfectly good, secure, well-paying job as a chemist up until a few weeks ago, when he quit. When he…
My friend Chris had a perfectly good, secure, well-paying job as a chemist up until a few weeks ago, when he quit. When he…
Do you do sports outside, but maybe would like to do new sports outside? Have you tried bikepacking, SUP-ing, SUP yoga-ing, slackline yoga-ing, fat…
Hi, yes, you. Did you run out of vacation days last year? No? What’s wrong? As Americans, we’re doing a piss-poor job of vacationing….
Jim Harris can walk again—which is a big deal because a little over six months ago he was paralyzed from the waist down preparing…
We all have that friend who may need a little encouraging to do something they’re a little apprehensive about. Or something they’re just flat-out…
Do you find yourself reading stories about adventures in outdoor magazines and websites and feeling down about what you did on your summer vacation?…
Every year since 2008, I’ve set a goal of sleeping outside for a month of each year. I don’t do well with training goals,…
When’s the last time you made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and put it in a backpack for a day out? If it…
I am sitting at the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, wondering how to explain…
Here is a flow chart to help you decide: But wait, you say, it’s not that simple. Right, it’s not. You have too much…
Sometimes, when you invite a new friend out skiing, biking, climbing, or backpacking, it goes really well. But maybe, during the course of the…
A week ago, two guys finished climbing an astronomically difficult 3,000-foot route on El Capitan as the world kept up via seemingly every mainstream news…
Every few weeks, I get an e-mail or a Facebook message from someone who has a few questions about writing: how to get their…
After Semi-Rad.com passed the three-year mark this spring, I started to think a lot about creating something non-digital, or less ephemeral than weekly blog…
One Saturday last May, I slid a key into the lock on a scrappy little apartment 80 feet off Denver’s noisy Colfax Avenue. We…
One day last August at a popular tourist destination, I noticed as a guy walked around for several minutes with a selfie stick, stopping…
Dear states of Utah and Colorado: Hey, so you know what would be cool? If Utah and Colorado became one giant state called “Utahlorado.”…
As I descended the corniced summit ridge, I saw a climber coming up the same path. I hacked out a small ledge in the…
A couple weeks ago, Alastair Humphreys told me about the Explore feature on Kayak.com that allows you to enter the amount of money you’d…
Dear helmets: You guys are my favorite hats. Sure, other headwear may be more stylish, more “cool,” easier to put on slightly sideways to…
My friends and I drove down a dirt road out of the Sangre de Cristo Range after a two-night backpacking trip to an alpine…
About a year ago, psychologist and author Kelly McGonigal gave a TED Talk on “How to Make Stress Your Friend,” which has now been…
Do you have trouble fitting that last item in your backpack, or struggle to hang a piece of clothing in a closet between all…
I was talking to my friend Mark about mountain biking a while back when he mentioned linking together a bunch of shorter trails around…
When Forest and I had discussed the rules at a coffee shop in Brooklyn three days earlier, I had said, “I think vomiting is…
Do you ever say “yes” to a bike ride, day of climbing, run, ski day, or other outdoor activity, and immediately after, notify your…
Chad Kellogg died in Patagonia on Valentine’s Day this year, at 42 years old. I didn’t know him very well, just through a handful…