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The Right Way to Store Winter Gear for the Summer

Whether you’re mourning the snowmelt and plotting how to ski through August or you’re already gleefully breaking out sandals and shorty wetsuits,...

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Oskar Speck Set Off From the Danube in a Kayak—He Ended in Australia

There are a great many ways to get to Australia from Germany, nearly all of them easier than the route and method chosen by Oskar Speck in 1932...

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Native Alaskans Show the Feds How It's Done

Last August, after a long day at work, Karen Linnell tossed a couple of coolers and a bag full of dried moose meat into the back of her pickup tr...

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Nick Clinch Showed the World Americans Could Make First Ascents Too

Nicholas Clinch standing, middle of back row. American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition. Photo: via AAC. Despite a nickname that makes it seem...

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What It Takes and Why It’s Worth It

I wake up antsy. I stand in the sun outside my front door and stretch my arms, staring at a vertical ocean of blue. My mountain bike has been pro...

ArchiTec’s Aysen Hoodie Is Basically Perfect

As I write this, I’m wearing ArchiTec’s Aysen hoodie, but this is no big surprise, as I wear the Aysen hoodie four to five days a week and have si...

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There Goes My Hero

I grew up surfing in a place where it was pretty much standard to have the lineup all to yourself. Or, if you were lucky, you might have a couple...

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First Ascent, Second Tower, Last Man

John Mowat on Symmetry Spire’s Durrance Ridge with Jenny Lake below. Photo: George Mowat. John Mowat remembers the day 71 years ago when he an...

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The Wisdom of Sir Edmund Hillary

Everest was first climbed 70 years ago this week, cementing Edmund Hillary's and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay's place in world history. Hillary has left...

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Man, I Really Miss My Long-Gone Dirtbag Gear Shop

It was on a busy thoroughfare in San Luis Obispo, California, occupying a squat, rectangular building with a brick facade in the front, yellow pl...

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Is the ‘Wood-Wide Web’ Narrative Even True?

Over the past few years, a fascinating narrative about forests and fungi has captured the public imagination. It holds that the roots of neighbor...

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Amy Johnson Left Her Secretary Job Behind to Become One of History's Most Daring Pilots

Amy Johnson was your classic dreamer. Anybody who’s ever pushed back from the expected will recognize a little bit of themselves in her story. We...

The Right Way to Store Winter Gear for the Summer

Oskar Speck Set Off From the Danube in a Kayak—He Ended in Australia

Native Alaskans Show the Feds How It's Done

Nick Clinch Showed the World Americans Could Make First Ascents Too

What It Takes and Why It’s Worth It

ArchiTec’s Aysen Hoodie Is Basically Perfect

There Goes My Hero

First Ascent, Second Tower, Last Man

The Wisdom of Sir Edmund Hillary

Man, I Really Miss My Long-Gone Dirtbag Gear Shop

Is the ‘Wood-Wide Web’ Narrative Even True?

Amy Johnson Left Her Secretary Job Behind to Become One of History's Most Daring Pilots

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