Hilary Oliver is a freelance writer, filmmaker and contributing climb editor for the Co-op Journal. Her work has appeared in magazines and websites like Outside, Adventure Journal, Bust, Climbing, National Geographic Adventure, the Dirtbag Diaries, and many others. You can find more of her work at hilarymoliver.com. REI member since 2004.
To snap her stunning images of paragliding in the Pakistani Karakoram, expedition skiing in Alaska, BASE jumping on Baffin Island or freediving off the coast of...
For photographer Jillian Lukiwski, everything is better if it’s done outside. “Eaten outside, sipped outside, created outside,” she says. So she’s built her lif...
Ever had a photo pop up in your Instagram feed and thought, Hey, I’ve seen that before? Someone standing in the same spot, looking at that same mountain in the ...
If you need adventure photographer Becca Skinner, odds are you’d have better luck finding her in a bivy sack on a mountainside than on her couch at home—or indo...
“I think I’m going to sell my mountain bike,” Brendan said. I sat silently across the table, glancing at the massive full-suspension 29er that hung above his ro...
The email subject line read: “Summer Scrambling Sessions—Invitation to Edit.” The message was empty except for the attached Google Doc. Usually in my line of wo...
When Sarah Menzies first started making outdoor-related films, it had never even occurred to her that there was an outdoor industry.
She’d grown up exploring...
Like most of us, you probably don’t have the time to hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail. But you can get a good taste of its riches by walking in some of the f...
If only Cheryl Strayed had hung out with REI Adventures guide Polly Simpich before she set out on the Pacific Crest Trail. She might not have become known as “C...
If Moab is the celebrity of the Utah mountain biking world, the trails around Hurricane and St. George in the state’s southwest corner are sleeper candidates th...
Pulling into Sedona with a bike on your roof rack is different from driving into any other desert mountain-biking destination. Sure, red-rock buttes rise left a...
We climbers are infamous for our ability to make home on the road. Unafraid to sleep in our cars and able to get by with very little, we do whatever it takes to...
