Outside Adventure to the Max

Kayaking is my intimate relationship with water. I feel vulnerable and at the water's mercy. Sitting in a boat, only millimeters of c...

Thus situated, many hundred miles from our families in the howling wilderness, I believe few would have equally enjoyed the happiness we ...

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzl...

Thus situated, many hundred miles from our families in the howling wilderness, I believe few would have equally enjoyed the happiness we ...

July 25, 2011...Nothing is better than sitting alongside the banks of the St. Croix River in Interstate State Park just south of Taylor F...

  #OptOutside on Black Friday, is REI's adventurous Thanksgiving marketing campaign motivating  folks to head for the great outdoors ...

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee, The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead, When...

We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to us. It would be hard to ...

The morning mist of Lake Itasca. Now that the first day of summer looms ahead of me, I drift back to where the trees are tallest, day...

" When you wake up and discover the hurt places don't run. Sink your paddle in and ride the river. Every time. Dive in, let the riv...