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.
In the United States, public lands are accessible to everyone, in theory—but only if you know the inside baseball. This article breaks down the four largest federal public land managers, plus three more you probably haven’t heard of, so you can get outside with family and friends this summer.
Read MoreThe outdoors, like any other social system we’ve built, runs on ideas of scarcity. Internalizing the narrative that there is not enough for everyone inherently makes BIPOC individuals compete against one another.
Read MoreWait, so why don’t outdoor communities do more to accommodate beginners? Some do, but others are indifferent or downright hostile towards newcomers who haven’t “proven themselves.”
Read MoreAs I continue to be an advocate in the outdoors, I am now realizing that we have the power to create any kind of ski culture we want. But we can’t do this alone. In fact, we shouldn’t do it alone.
Read MoreConservation starts with falling in love with America’s public lands. And there are far less racist techniques to manage public land than trying to play keep-away from urban hikers on social media. So here are five reasons why you should keep geotagging.
Read More…recently, it seems more and more that Leave No Trace (LNT) is being misused to police black and brown bodies in the outdoors
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