Doug Peacock 19 min read
Here is a crucial distinction between trophy hunters and me: I don’t hunt predators. I wouldn’t shoot a bear for a cool million.
Christopher Ketcham 5 min read
WHEN I’M IN BOISE I drink with Brian Ertz at the bar in the basement of the Idanha Hotel, where...
Daniel Duane 17 min read
He damned himself as we scurried down the path: “My poor neglected wife,” he said, “to be married to such a delinquent malingerer.”
Dennis Eagan 8 min read
THE CALL OF THE SEA is hard to resist. I became intrigued with the Aleut trade route in 1988, while reading...
Brad Rassler 18 min read
If you’re mourning the shortage of Sierra snow, you might do well to stock up on Kleenex. Ski journalist and author Porter...
Michael P. Branch 9 min read
Sarah nods. “Free ice water. Hand-painted road signs. Free coffee and doughnuts for vets. And jackalopes. That’s what we’re about."
Yvon Chouinard 6 min read
IN MY three-quarters of a century of stupid stunts, I’ve had enough near-death experiences that I’ve accepted the fact that...
Nancy Pfeiffer 31 min read
A calafate seed was growing inside me. The idea was simple: Return to Coyhaique, buy a horse, and head south.
Brad Rassler 29 min read
WRITER, PROFESSOR, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROVOCATEUR, David Gessner, is lounging in his writing shack out back of his North Carolina house, a...
Rick Ridgeway 18 min read
Now, nearly two decades later, I was in the same place with Jonathan’s daughter, who had just turned twenty, and who was with me not on a journey but a pilgrimage.
Michael P. Cohen 11 min read
When I see these stoned counters in other people’s houses, they seem, in their shape and their function, like places of business or places of death.
Michael P. Branch 8 min read
ACTUALLY, HANNAH AND CAROLINE never really asked me to build them a tree house. I came up with that idea myself,...
Brad Rassler 6 min read
THOUGH IT’S BEEN NEARLY THREE DECADES since Edward Abbey drained his last can of beer and flung it onto a Forest Service byway, his...