Olivia Dwyer is a freelance writer based in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. She’s formerly an editor at Mountainmagazine and once co-piloted a 1982 Volkswagen Vanagon from Colorado to Panama. REI member since 2012.
In November 2013, Lauren Bello joined a carpool to get from her home in Truckee, California, to a women’s backcountry ski event in nearby Tahoe City. The driver...
A bus stops at Cochran’s Ski Area in Richmond, Vermont, and unloads 16 kindergartners from a local public school two miles away. Barbara Ann Cochran, a gold med...
When a grassroots organization in Vermont partnered with federal land managers to open skiable glades on public lands, they forged a new model for backcountry t...
An accidental-runner's path to taking on one of America's oldest ultras
Dawn breaks through a stand of ponderosa pines, and Sarah Keyes flicks back a homemad...
