Outside Adventure to the Max

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

The hard work is not only part of the fun of it, but it beats the doctors. San Francisco Bay is no mill pond. It is a large and draught...

Courtesy of Heavenly Mountain via Facebook There is a buzz in the ski shops this week in Northern California. The smell of wax, the cl...

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...

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, s...

 Waverly Traylor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Public domain image. Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because ...

Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping ...