Dennis Eagan 7 min read
Then something remarkable happened: once I began to move, my mind shifted from melancholia to wonder.
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...
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 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...
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
“YOU AREN’T GONNA BUILD NO HOUSE OF STRAW IN MY COUNTY!” my wife Leslie and I were told by a small-town...
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.
Andy Selters 17 min read
IN 2012, I JOURNEYED with several climbing partners to an area of the Karakoram known only on satellite maps, arguably the last...
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...
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...