Here you are again: Holiday shopping season is upon us, and you’re wondering, “How will I get the perfect gift…
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Do you follow THOSE PEOPLE on Instagram? Their lives look so perfect! Here’s the truth about them: Their lives ARE…
It’s (hopefully) common knowledge that if you want to climb a Colorado 14er in the summer, you should be on…
No one wants to be the person who leaves a store and becomes the subject of retail employees’ horror stories—but…
I was in Zermatt last week and was fortunate to gaze upon the incredible Matterhorn, at the south end of…
A couple nights before leaving on a backpacking trip, I decided to finally dig up a Trangia stove I’d received…
To climb rocks: Use your feet. Despite what you may have seen in Cliffhanger, or depictions of climbing in energy…
From 2012 to 2014, I lived full time out of a 2005 Chevy Astrovan. I had moved out of an…
Last Wednesday, around the ninth switchback in the M Trail at the University of Montana, my legs and lungs screamed…
Here’s a thing you may have experienced: You’re about to head out on a trip in the outdoors, for three…
Last week, I gave the address at the commencement ceremony for the Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning. It was…
A couple hundred feet from the top of Avalanche Gulch on Mount Shasta last Monday morning, my friend Abi and…
Mashing up Kanye West’s tweets with New Yorker cartoons has been done before (in 2010 here and a few weeks…
In 2004, my friend Nick and I went on a 10-day road trip from Montana to Phoenix, where I was…
4:35 a.m. The wind blows across the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, 20 mph constant. Mitsu and I hurriedly…
Ten years ago last weekend, my old friend Jarrett didn’t have cancer anymore, so I thought it would be a…
Location, location, location! This one-bedroom is close to nothing. Step inside the 29-square-foot ripstop nylon palace and say hello to…
Want to climb the Seven Summits? Sure you do. Want to pony up $157,000 (not including flights)? If the answer…
A couple years ago, I was talking to my dad on the phone and asked about his plans for the…
Nothing’s better than a brand-new sleeping bag, that miraculous cocoon of warmth that enables you to sleep under the stars.…