Jess Daddio is a multimedia storyteller—writer, photographer, videographer—and a former travel editor at Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine. Her work has appeared in Outdoor Retailer Magazine, Elevation Outdoors Magazine and the Matador Network. When she’s not on the road, she calls Virginia home. REI Co-op Member since 2011.
There are plenty of reasons to try dispersed camping, or overnighting in a non-designated campground. Maybe you want to test your self-sufficiency outdoors, wit...
The best part of camping is spending a restorative weekend snuggled in a sleeping bag under the stars. The hardest part? Figuring out where and when you're allo...
It’s been two years since we first published a Good Gear profile about Swiss footwear company On and the brand’s sustainability initiatives, which included the ...
Consider this: The footwear industry produced a record 24.3 billion pairs of shoes globally in 2019. That’s enough for every person in the world to own three pa...
Kevin Bolger knows New York City better than most. Since 1992, Bolger—call him ‘Squid’—has jockeyed the asphalt as a bicycle messenger. That’s nearly ...
From my vantage point on the road to Montezuma Pass in southern Arizona, I can see a faint, rust-colored line in the sand 1,500 feet below that delineates the b...
Athens County in Southeastern Ohio could very well become Appalachia’s next mountain biking hub. At the heart of that potential lies the Baileys Mountain Bike T...
It’s breakfast time at Mulberry Gap Mountain Bike Getaway and the final day of the third annual Bikepacking Summit, a three-day grassroots event that’s equal pa...
Editor’s note on June 29, 2021: Since this article first published, a lot has changed. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Latoya Shauntay Snell launched a series of cl...
On September 16, 2017, Alexandera Houchin woke up from a fitful sleep cocooned in a sleeping bag and a blue tarp on the side of the road. Her body felt sluggish...
For the first time since 2015, the biggest event in mountain bike racing is coming back to the United States. Next month, some 10,000 people will converge on Sn...
Check a trail near you and you’ll see that hikers are choosing a different type of shoe than they used to years ago. Instead of the big, bulky boots of the past...
