As part of REI’s #everytrailconnects campaign, I was asked to answer the question of why are trails meaningful to me. As a professional skier and mountaineer, t...
When you think of backcountry camping, endangered habitat and sea turtles, you don’t often combine that image with mansions from the Gilded Age, but that’s exac...
As part of a video project I was working on recently, I got the chance to get my hands on a new cooler in the YETI line: the Tundra 65.
I’d been hearing abou...
Actor Nick Offerman appears in the new film “A Walk in the Woods,” based on the best-selling book by Bill Bryson, as none other than an REI employee helping the...
Mount Columbia might just be the most hated of Colorado’s 54 fourteeners (“14ers”), mountains that rise to an elevation of 14,000 feet or greater. Located in Co...
Thriving on human-powered adventures of all kinds out our back door in Vermont’s Green Mountains, we utilize a great variety of backpacks throughout the year.
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It's not too late to go camping, so pack up the car and head to the closest state park near you. Below are a few of my favorites.
Gorges State Park, North Caro...
Imagine a land known for surfing, wine, apple pies and yes, a long-distance trail. Welcome to the Coast to Crest Trail, which starts seaside in Del Mar, Califor...
Going surfing by bicycle is undoubtedly one of the great joys in life for us. Had we better predicted the added freedom, pleasure and convenience it would bring...
There is a tangible feeling that you have as you finish tying the laces on your hiking boots and take your first steps down the trail.
Maybe it’s the smell o...
The summer backpacking season in Southcentral Alaska is akin to an on-again, off-again relationship. Just earlier this month we experienced weeks of cold, rainy...
You can do an out-and-back hike on a section of Minnesota’s Superior Hiking Trail, a 310-mile footpath that traverses a ridge overlooking Lake Superior, the wor...
