THE Doug Walker I Knew
Life is full of people you donβt know for long, but who have a profound impact on your life and work. I met a guy like that a little more than a year ago. It was at the REI flagship in Seattle, for an event...
NPS’ Fee-Free Days for 2016
In celebration of its centennial, the National Park Service will waive entrance fees on 16 days in 2016. The number of fee-free days is up from nine in 2015. The free days include a week in April for National Park Week and a four-day period...
Our Peeps: Alan Spears
First in “Our Peeps” series spotlighting notable people of color in outdoors-related pursuits. Growing up, Alan Spears lived 75 miles from the Gettysburg Battlefield, where his family visited twice or so a year as a “cheap vacation.” The essential stop afterward was to a hobby...
Review: Jumbo Wild
Many βbattle overβ documentaries are so cacophonous and confusing, their points get lost in the covered ears and closed eyes they produce. βJumbo Wildβ is one that keeps you glued to its gorgeous imagery and listening to its overwhelming serenity. Filmmaker Nick Waggoner layers its...
Feds Expunge Racist Name
Above: Howard Lake in Washington state (NPS photo) NOTE: The following is a release from the office of Sen. Pramila Jayapal of Seattle. After that is my original story, which provides some context to this development. State Senator Pramila Jayapal joined Washington state leaders and...
A Grand Teton Tour
This may look like a week’s worth, but it was about a day and a half in October. The beauty simply is everywhere you look in Grand Teton National Park. NOTE: Clicking on an image will launch a larger viewer with the gallery.
Yellowstone Erupts
Yellowstone National Park has emerged in spectacular fashion from a summer that could have gone down as the season of tourist-goring bison. Instead, the nationβs first national park, known for its geysers and geological oddities, abundant wildlife and grand canyon, shattered attendance records with another...
Virtually Visit Yosemite
The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, Yosemite National Parkβs largest grove of the famed trees, currently is closed for a major restoration project. But that doesnβt necessarily mean it is closed to the public. Thatβs because Yosemite National Park and Google have built upon their...
Pikas in Peril
Above: A pika sounds the alarm near Lake Ann in the North Cascades (photo by Glenn Nelson) The bottom line for promoting diversity and inclusion in the outdoors is imbuing the impending nonwhite majority in the U.S. with a sense of stewardship about our planet....
Urgency of Inclusion
Above photo courtesy Joy Trip Project This is a Trail Posse/African American Nature & Parks Experience Joint by Teresa Baker and Glenn Nelson Can we please get a quarter for every time the head of an outdoors organization says, βDiversity is our top priority,β every...
Parks: Free, Uneasy
Just a few days after our countryβs federally managed public lands conduct one of their biggest celebrations of the year, they could be staring into a financial abyss that will negatively impact their health for years. Saturday, Sept. 26 is National Public Lands Day, meaning...
Don’t Sweat the Technique
This story is shared by Verticulture by Outdoor Research. by Shingo Ohkawa As a kid, I always felt I was born a bit too late to have had a hand in the birth of hip-hop. Born and raised in New York City, it was all...
