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...
Thuy-vy Nguyen 6 min read
Time when we are unexpectedly alone can be difficult but, at least for some of us, it can also be a blessing in disguise.
Brad Rassler 22 min read
YES, I KNEW SOMETHING of the great mountaineer Don Jensen; after all, I bore witness to his Sierran legacy with every ramble...
Brad Rassler 32 min read
“My name is Karoline Conradi Øksnevad,” she said, the words devoid of much inflection. But then, with greater emphasis: “You don’t know me. I am both no one and everyone.”
Dick Dorworth 14 min read
Then she recounted a story that put climbing into a stark, perhaps primordial perspective, one that I’d never entertained or needed to entertain.
Brad Rassler 21 min read
The reality is that if you have a constituency of voters who have no direct relationship with the natural world, why would they ever vote, allocate federal tax dollars to support it in perpetuity to the future the way it is now?
Dennis Eagan 7 min read
Then something remarkable happened: once I began to move, my mind shifted from melancholia to wonder.
Philip Weiss 48 min read
YOU KNOW you are inside the Bohemian Grove when you come down a trail in the woods and hear piano music from amid a group of tents and then round a bend to see a man with a beer in one hand and his penis in the other, urinating into the bushes.
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...
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 5 min read
“There is a Paiute proverb to the effect that no man should attempt the country east of the Sierras until...
Brad Rassler 9 min read
IN THE LAST DECADE OF THE LAST CENTURY, the videographer, writer and bon vivant Michael Strassman spied a line on a...
CMarie Fuhrman 21 min read
And always, in this search, a person might find that she is already there, at the center of the world....
Chip Brown 7 min read
The match moved toward the endgame. He had no real chance of winning but stubbornly fought on.
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...
Brad Rassler 19 min read
GO AHEAD: ASK ALEX HONNOLD about his unprecedented solo ascents, and watch how he reflexively flips the toggle switch to autopilot. He’ll rhapsodize about climbing...
Doug Robinson 19 min read
“WHAT is alpinism, anyway?” Terry Kearney was starting to rave as we burned through the last of our fuel. It was...
Donella Meadows 42 min read
Back from the sublime to the ridiculous, from enlightenment to caveats.