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...
Brad Rassler 21 min read
That the Sierra might not be so very nevada one day might have been inconceivable to the Spaniards who named the range.
John Dittli 10 min read
I’M NOT A SUPERSTITIOUS GUY, BUT REALLY, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. I’m no meteorologist either, but after 35 years of...
Brad Rassler 11 min read
They wear the slightly bemused expressions of those who have ordered their filet well-done, only to find it served up tartare –but they’re too proud to return the meat to the kitchen.
Mark Twain 21 min read
OUR GUIDES, HIRED ON THE GEMMI, were already at Zermatt when we reached there. So there was nothing to interfere...
Tom Rosenbauer 17 min read
THIS IS a true story. It’s a tale of unusually large brown trout, sewage, weird mayflies, floods and droughts. If...
Chip Brown 7 min read
The match moved toward the endgame. He had no real chance of winning but stubbornly fought on.
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...
Robert Lugg 5 min read
The epithet “basic” was all over Facebook news feeds and the blogosphere in 2014, and not only because Taylor Swift...
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...
Brad Rassler 10 min read
EVERYTHING’S BEEN COMING UP ROSES for the women of the U.S. cross country skiing team. World Championships. World Cup podiums. World...
Jim Stimson 10 min read
ON THE EVENING OF FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2015, a wildfire swept through the small communities of Paradise and Swall Meadows, located...
Brad Rassler 6 min read
Gibbons once told McPhee that "there is nothing I would rather do than eat my way through a roadside ditch"
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.
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...
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.
Brad Rassler 2 min read
I SKI BECAUSE Allan Bard and Tom Carter told me to. Anyone who banked a telemark turn in the Sierra Nevada in the...
Sarah Winnemucca 62 min read
After your promise, how dare you to ask me to let your hearts be stained with the blood of those who are innocent of the deed that has been done to us by others?