Planning your first weekend hike or a backpacking trip? Want to know what it's like to experience free fall from 13,000ft? Interested in swapping beta on some of the best bouldering locations across the US? Check out our Trip Reports for recent articles from our Featured Bloggers. Whether you’re venturing outdoors alone or with your family or friends, you’ll find something that matches your interests! We also tackle complex topics like racism, colorism, transphobia and queerphobia in outdoor recreation.
Sometimes styling and celebrating your natural curly hair can be a challenge when spending time in nature—especially when you’re the only one who looks like you. Climbing and hiking weekends rarely include time for deep conditioning, and the wind and rain may not go easy on your twist out. So, after years of struggling, learning and experimenting, I’m excited to share with you this curly-haired adventurer’s guide to the outdoors (and protective styles!).
Read MoreRamadan Mubarak! This Ramadan, we’re celebrating Muslimah athlete, Jeri Villarreal. After growing up on the sidelines, she started competing in triathlons in her late 30s. In the past four years she has completed over 22 triathlons.
Read More“We’re asking…at whose expense does their learning come from? The learning of gatekeepers in outdoor industry comes at the expense of women of color and queer folx.”
Read MoreThinking about leaving your desk job and taking off on the road for a few months or a few years? Here are a few things to consider before embarking on your own journey.
Read MoreAfter the blast of the starting gun wore off, I felt more powerful than ever. I can’t remember how I placed, but I remember that it was definitely a personal best. The race transformed my diet for the rest of my life. I stopped carb loading and started eating red meat.
Read MoreSo how do you know if your outdoor friends are good allies? And what do you do if they’re not? Here are seven reasons why they may be taxing the hell out of your emotional health.
Read MoreConservation starts with falling in love with America’s public lands. And there are far less racist techniques to manage public land than trying to play keep-away from urban hikers on social media. So here are five reasons why you should keep geotagging.
Read MoreFor folks who love adrenaline, learning to skydive is almost universally exciting. For the rest of us, there are still several reasons to take that leap of faith!
Read MoreOnce when I was alone, crossing the road, on the way to a Carolina football game, a drunk, white, frat-boy hanging half-way out of his friend’s Chevy pickup truck yelled at me, “Hey! Love me long time!”
Read More…recently, it seems more and more that Leave No Trace (LNT) is being misused to police black and brown bodies in the outdoors
Read MoreThere’s a common unspoken thread amongst adventurers that spans gender, ethnicity and sport. I can only describe it as a passion for life—a state of mind that tells you over and over again: there are no limits to what you can achieve.
Read MoreWelcome to the final installment of my abs series! I hope you have enjoyed my previous posts focusing on floor work and rings. This post is going to focus on bar work and climbing exercises.
Read MoreThe ensuing news coverage declared her the breakthrough performance of the world tour. There’s a photo of Dominique: quads tensed, long brown curls flying loose behind her. Goddess like. She ended 2018 as the 5th ranked woman in the world.
Read MoreDon’t wait for the conditions to be right. If you see something you want to try, go for it. You may even inspire someone else along the way!
Read MoreCreating balance in your life can be tricky. Here are some reflections on my experience creating an amazing balance in my own life—one that takes into consideration work, play, and especially rest—as well as the work it took to get there.
Read MoreWhen it came to winter hiking, I learned that I had to be extra prepared due to how quickly extreme weather could roll in and how easily I could unintentionally put my life in danger.
Read MoreCoaching representation means not only physical safety but spiritual and emotional safety, too—it’s impossible to overstate how important this is for the next generation of outdoor athletes and enthusiasts.
Read MoreThe purpose of this article is to give insight on the five days and four nights I spent in Utah and Arizona—where I went, what I did, and how I got there—so you can do the same.
Read MoreWe fight these battles by ourselves day in and day out, but we don’t have to with the support of friends, family and the climbing community. It’s easy to forget that we’re not alone. Resilience is a team sport.
Read MoreWelcome back to my series on getting a stronger core! I am going to focus on exercises that require little to no equipment other than a surface for you to lay on. These are easy to do when you’re traveling or at home watching Netflix.
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