A native of Louisiana, Jonathan currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He’s an author and journalist, having covered everything from Lyme disease on the Appalachian Trail to coastal erosion along the Gulf Coast. He’s happiest when he’s backpacking in the mountains. REI member since 2017.
For the past eight years, Janet Hensley has lived in a van from March to November, never straying more than a few minutes from the Appalachian Trail (AT). The 5...
The drone of traffic faded as soon as I dropped into the sanctuary of Blunn Creek, replaced by the whistles of birds carried across rippling water. Just a 38-ac...
Minutes after beginning the descent into an 800-foot canyon that's home to Big Jacks Creek, a piercing rattle forced Jason “Ras” Vaughan to freeze. He could see...
Early on Monday, Jan. 28, temperatures dipped to minus 10 in International Falls, Minnesota. Don Gabrielson, a 52-year-old rear admiral Navy officer who lives i...
Solitude is practically guaranteed at Big Bend National Park, as are dark nights bursting with desert-kissed stars. On the northern edge of the arid Chihuahuan ...
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is truly a wild place, where wolves, moose and elk roam free in dense forests of aspen, maple and pine. Known by locals as the U.P., ...
Stepping into Memphis Rox, you’ll notice its high walls with climbing routes extending to the ceiling, the bouldering area’s assortment of colorful holds pepper...
An hour before dusk on the South Rim Trail in Big Bend National Park, I was searching for words to explain how I felt. Standing on the edge of the Chisos Mounta...
With Mount Katahdin enveloped in a midday cloud on Aug. 28, Belgian ultrarunner Karel Sabbe summited Baxter Peak to claim the overall Fastest Known Time, or FKT...
One of the crown jewels of Memphis, Shelby Farms Park is a 4,500-acre urban park that since 2007 has offered seemingly endless outdoor recreation opportunities ...
On a secluded trail in the Gila National Forest, I could see 10,895-foot Whitewater Baldy shimmer in the distance. The highest peak in southwest New Mexico’s Mo...
Sara Fry can still remember a few moments from that day in the summer of 2005. Her water polo team faced a rival high school, which deepened her desire to win. ...
