Adventure
Gliding across the snow on a dogsled is a perception changer. Traveling by dog team opens up the wilderness.
In a small, dead-end valley in Springfield, Oregon, on Camp Creek, three generations of the Petersen...
Floating across the frozen backcountry on snowshoes is a unique way to see the wilderness. But finding a place to go out and enjoy the snow can be hard.
This can be a hard time of year. The holidays are over, and we’re ready for spring — but it’s still winter.
Blinded by the wind and stung by the cold, we set up our camp as the day grew dark around us. The two of us had snowshoed to Dogsled Pass, deep in the Talkeetna Mountains of south central Alaska.
When the air turns crisp and the days get shorter, it’s time to put on an extra layer (or two) and p...
For the majority of my life, Oktoberfest has been just another tradition — like Cinco de Mayo and St...
From thick coastal forests to high alpine peaks and sprawling glaciers, Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest stretches over 16.7 million acres.
I almost ignored the explosion at first. Loud noises weren’t unusual here in Qamishli, and I’d already heard jackhammers that could have been mistaken for gunfire throughout the day.
Outdoors clothing needs to meet the conditions a hiker will face. How hot or cold is the climate? Ho...
I’m a self-taught bow hunter with a passion for elk hunting. The first time I heard the bugle of a bull elk echo out of my computer speakers, I knew I had to go and experience it in person.
Being a double-amputee doesn’t mean you can’t find your place in the agricultural world — and for Alex Jauregui, that place is as a beekeeper. Jauregui served for 11 years in the U.
In the eyes of this butcher, the craft of cutting and selling meat is making a comeback, and he coul...
On top of being a physically demanding job, carpentry is more of a visual process than most people r...
Dilan Call has been an electrician for 11 years, and currently works out of the Local 490 union in C...
Even after a residential blaze gave him third-degree burns, firefighting was a lifestyle Arron Willi...
More than anything, metal fabrication is a profession that requires precision and care. Those who pe...
Welding is strenuous work, but creating something with your own hands is inherently satisfying. There are many different types of products that welders have a hand in creating.
The mix of art and craft keeps this blacksmith of 20 years going. Jonathan Rummel, owner/operator of Hand Forged Works in North Andover, Massachusetts, sees himself as both an artisan and a craftsman.
These days, being a mechanic means changing with the times. No one knows that better than Ernie Alix, who owns and operates Ernie’s Garage in Windham, New Hampshire.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and subsequent film of the same name showcased the dangers of t...
Any hiker planning to spend a night outdoors needs to choose a good campsite. This may seem obvious to the experienced outdoorsman, but any pro knows that no one is above refreshing the basics.
The Rocky Mountains are the largest mountain range in North America. Webs of ridge lines and towering peaks wind through the western United States, and every hike finds a new way to impress travelers.
To many, the American Northeast can be summarized as the New York-Boston corridor — but there is so ...
They don’t call them the flyover states for nothing — many simply see the Midwest as flat, uninspiri...
From the Louisiana swamps to the Virginia mountains, the American Southeast may lack the towering vi...
The vistas of the American West have inspired people from John Muir to Ansel Adams to venture into t...
Fourteen years before Rick Ecktor taught hundreds of people how to safely handle and shoot firearms ...
Isolated and far from home, the members of the Corps of Discovery celebrated the Fourth of July thre...
The van let the group of veterans from Heroic Hearts Project out at the bottom of a two-lane country road. It was too steep for the vehicle to go any farther.
Almost any hiking area has some sort of history tied to it, but sometimes a historical connection ma...
Whether you’re in the woods, on the trail, or camping in your backyard, summer insects are a fact of...
To hike on a battlefield is to hike through history. The artillery pieces used for bombardments are silent now, either used as decoration or removed entirely.
The heat hits me like a solid hand, buffeting my entire body as I open the door of the cabin, steppi...
If the journey Benjamin Breckheimer begins today is successful, he’ll be the first Purple Heart reci...
Sometimes a day hike or a weekend backpacking trip isn’t enough. If you’re feeling the call of the w...
Donnie Vincent isn’t your typical hunter. The biologist turned hunter-conservationist turned filmmak...
Look, we get it. You have an unquenchable thirst — a yearning for the trumpets and cannon-fire, but the kids have soccer practice on Tuesdays and you have bowling league on Thursdays.
Americans celebrate all races, religions, cultures, and creeds in order to remember, reflect, and learn from our ancestors’ trials and tribulations. Since 1976, every U.
When the days get short and cold, many people take that as an excuse to hunker down in the comfort o...
After more than two months alone on a boat in the Atlantic Ocean, Tim Crockett, 47, was two miles fr...
When the days grow cold and short, a lot of people use that as an excuse to stay indoors. But with a...
Sometimes things go wrong. Horribly wrong.
The forest of mostly dead trees sits near the highway in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Syringes and broken bottles litter the landscape.
In the legendary 1818 poem “Ozymandias,” Percy Shelley wrote about a statue of the Egyptian Pharaoh ...
At 6-foot-3, 19-year-old Elder Ostler stood a head taller than most of the people he saw walking dow...
The loss of Bethlehem Steel was widely regarded among the local population as the nail in the coffin...
That type of carelessness brought us face to face with a stream we could not cross. Attention to detail and the ability to read into nuance are two critical functions of a good navigator.
McGough is the only woman among the small fraction of American falconers who hunt with golden eagles...
