Planning your first weekend hike or a backpacking trip? Want to know what it's like to experience free fall from 13,000ft? Interested in swapping beta on some of the best bouldering locations across the US? Check out our Trip Reports for recent articles from our Featured Bloggers. Whether you’re venturing outdoors alone or with your family or friends, you’ll find something that matches your interests! We also tackle complex topics like racism, colorism, transphobia and queerphobia in outdoor recreation.
Loving the outdoors isn’t “acting white,” it’s rejecting white supremacy and the belief that the outdoors belongs to white people. You belong there too. So here are 10 ways to prepare for your first backpacking trip this summer. Backpacking is for everyone. Just never forget, you are on Native land.
Read MoreIn 2019, we first interviewed Afro-Latina surfer Dominique Miller, a standout performer on the APP and WSL, about the joys and challenges of being a self-taught, dark-skinned woman of color in the surfing industry. Since then she has announced a Billabong sponsorship and grown her social media following to over 100k followers.
Read MoreTsalani Lassiter is a black Peruvian photographer who has been capturing bears and other large animals on film for the past eight years.
Read MoreThe ensuing news coverage declared her the breakthrough performance of the world tour. There’s a photo of Dominique: quads tensed, long brown curls flying loose behind her. Goddess like. She ended 2018 as the 5th ranked woman in the world.
Read MoreSomeone very boldly asked me “What is your story? What got you outdoors?” Having been asked that question before, I automatically launched into the short synopsis of my brief outdoor career… I continued on with this neatly packaged story of how I fell in love with the Outdoors in my mid twenties. For so long I absolutely believed this narrative to be true, but looking back I now realize that...I lied.
Read MoreWhen I am out at the crag or ‘living my best life’ on a nice mountaintop I feel grateful for the opportunity to experience the world in such a beautiful way—but I also feel shame.
Read MoreWhen I walk, climb, jump, and dive I feel like I am not only challenging myself, but paying homage to the people who have struggled so much to pave the way for my own existence, for my own success.
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