Brendan Leonard is the creator of Semi-Rad.com, a contributing editor at Climbing Magazine, Adventure Journal, and The Dirtbag Diaries, and has climbed, hiked, and mountain biked all over the American West since he migrated there from Iowa in 2004. REI Member since 2005.
In August we took the X-Pot five-piece collapsible silicone cookset on a seven-day backpacking trip in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. Because we were counting ounc...
We tested these low-top boots on a seven-day traverse of Wyoming’s Wind River Range in August, during which we both carried backpacks that weighed right around ...
Please do not kick rocks down onto your girlfriend, I remind myself as I carefully pick my way up 35-degree talus in the morning shade 500 feet below Angel Pass...
Anyone who’s had a good look at Alaska’s 20,237-foot Denali (still officially named Mount McKinley), can tell you about the first time they saw it. Even from vi...
Rising more than 14,000 feet from the surrounding terrain, Mount Rainier is an island of ice, snow and volcanic rock higher than anything near it, a ghostly pre...
Visible from the city on a clear day, Mount Hood is to Portland, Oregon, what Mount Rainier is to Seattle, three-hours’ drive north. At 11,239 feet in elevation...
When Kevin Jorgeson and Tommy Caldwell’s Dawn Wall climb thrust them into the world media spotlight, millions of non-climbers tried to wrap their heads around t...
It seems every hiker knows California’s Mount Whitney by name. At 14,505 feet, its summit is the highest place you can stand on in the continental United States...
Rising 7,000 feet from the valley floor with no foothills in the foreground, Wyoming’s Tetons are one of America’s most dramatic mountain ranges. The steep, roc...
Although Pikes Peak might be a little more well-known outside of Colorado because it inspired Katharine Lee Bates in 1893 to write “America the Beautiful,” Long...
Katahdin’s reputation is enormous for a feature that stands just under a mile high. Henry David Thoreau made it famous in his writing, America’s biggest-name lo...
No mountain in the Northeast is as famous as New Hampshire’s 6,288-foot Mount Washington. Since 1524, the year of its first recorded sighting by an explorer who...
