Big Waves Bring Big Problems To Indonesian Paradise, Part 3
Editor's Note: This is the third of a three-part story on the battle for the surf economy of Indonesia's Mentawai Islands. As resort owners and charter boat...
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Big Waves Bring Big Problems To Indonesian Paradise, Part 2
Editor's Note: This is the second of a three-part story on the war for the surf resources of Indonesia's Mentawai Islands. While tourism reforms are stalled in...
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Big Waves Bring Big Problems To Surfer's Paradise
Editor's Note: This is the first of a three-part story on the battle for the surf economy of Indonesia's Mentawai Islands. As resort owners and charter boat...
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Pop Quiz: How Do You Exploit Earth Day?
True or False? Earth Day was created in 1970 to celebrate all the wonderful ways that our society benefits from mining coal, extracting natural gas and burning...
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11 Outrageous Ways To Get To Work
While most of us loathe our daily commutes to work and school—enduring white-knuckle, traffic-choked drives into downtown office buildings or waiting forever for some crowded mode of...
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Top Spring Skiing Spots Slideshow
Where: Mt. Hood, OregonAverage Snowfall: 577"2011 Closing Date: May 15 (April 28 projected this year)Spring Deals: Spring Pass$99 for unlimited skiing through season's endHood has been blasted...
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Outdoor Jobs
Yosemite offers an unparalleled job opportunity for skilled, personable climbers. As the sport continues to grow, so do the environmental impacts of climbers in the park, including...
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Everest: A Mountain Of Hype
In a measure of how popular the trip has become, it isn't even easy these days to keep track of how many people have stood on the...
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Everest Season About To Hit Its Peak
There is relative calm in both Everest Base Camps at the moment as the climbers rest and acclimatize in order to get ready for the work ahead....
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Surfing's 'Scam' And The State Of Longboarding
By now, I trust many of you will have seen the video of this year's Joel Tudor Duct Tape Invitational. If not, watch it. It showcases a...
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Surprising (Essential) Gear For A Wilderness Paddle
Plenty of us have considered a big backcountry paddle, putting in to some wild waterway for a soul-saving weeks-long canoe journey. But how do you know what...
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VIDEO: Moose Strolls Through Canadian Grocery Store
A sick moose surprised grocery shoppers in Smithers, B.C., this week when it wandered into a Safeway in search of food. Customers captured the event with their...
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Hanging On: A Climber's Staggering Recovery
In late March of 2012, a group of climber friends brought me to the famed crags of New York's Shawangunk Ridge, a.k.a. the "Gunks," to touch real...
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How To Catch A Giant Squid? It's Complicated ...But Worth It
Though humans have been aware of giant squids' existence for thousands of years—Pliny the Elder wrote of one in his Natural History (the creature was said to...
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Most Wince-Worthy Surfing Wipeouts Of The Year
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/ete3SRqSFEY?rel=0]A couple weeks ago we posted Billabong XXL's 2012-2013 big wave nominees for your gawking enjoyment.Today we give you something no less gawk-worthy, but definitely more painful...
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Adventure Travel Tip: Wear A Rash Guard When Rafting
"Whitewater rafting is a tricky sport to dress for—one minute you're getting pummeled by rapids in a breezy canyon, the next you're baking in the sun with...
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Don't Call Me Eco-Terrorist!
It was not really surprising but, well, disappointing to hear that I'd been called an "eco-terrorist" by one of my neighbors. The news was second-hand, of course,...
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Take A (Virtual) European Road Trip
Footloose Norwegian photographer Sebastian Dahl, 25, recently went on a devil-may-care, Kerouac-inspired 10,000-kilometer (6,213-mile) road trip from Oslo, Norway to Beirut, Lebanon. Carrying little more than the...
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Adventure Travel Tip: Clean Water The Right Way
"In any developing country, if you're not confident that your water source has been boiled or chemically treated, then you should purify your own drinking water. Water...
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The Hard Life: This Is What Survival Takes
To the sound of sawing wood, the camera zooms in on a snow-huddled frontier camp, a few lonely buildings set against a stark backdrop of bare mountains,...
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10 Colleges And Universities For (Extremely) Active Students
Spring decision time is here. College applications are in, admissions offices are sending offer letters, and high school seniors everywhere are deciding where they want to spend...
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An Expert Take On The Parks: Monica Prelle
Monica Prelle is a freelance writer and outdoors adventurer based in California's Eastern Sierra, a fact that strongly influenced her top picks. In fact, it looks like...
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A Stiff Upper Lip: Polar Explorer's Last Letter Revealed
British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition was his last. He and his team reached the bottom of the world on January 17, 1912, only...
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12 Spring Hikes: Flowers, Falls, And Baby Animals
Every season has its own particular appeal: autumn, the brilliantly colored foliage; winter, ice climbing and chances to make fresh tracks on the slopes; summer, long, long...
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Meeting Predators On Their Own Turf
The March day in western Colorado was crystalline clear. North-facing mountain slopes held up to a foot of snow; the south faces, however, were bare. I made...
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Great Adventure Hoaxes: Sailing Nowhere Fast
Donald Crowhurst set sail from England in fall 1968 aboard a plywood trimaran as a competitor in The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the first-ever single-handed, nonstop,...
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The New National Parks: An Insider's Guide
You probably heard that earlier this week, President Obama signed executive orders creating five new National Monuments, three in the East that will be run by the...
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