Community Stories
Life on the deck of Hokule’a, the double-hulled canoe that sails around the world using only ancient wayfinding techniques.
We spoke with fired public lands employees before they were reinstated. Here are their stories.
How Tommy Caldwell is reshaping his love for rock climbing by building relationships with Indigenous stewards of Bears Ears.
After the biggest year of his climbing career, Aidan Roberts reflects on a shifting focus from solitary performance to shared passion—and how, in reality, our best days contain both.
Emilie Björkman on the rise and decline of wild Baltic salmon in Sweden’s remote northern rivers.
Taking responsibility for our supply chain impact means working with our partners, the wider industry, governments and NGOs to address root causes. Here’s how we are working to support the people who make our products.
England’s largest lake is facing an ecological disaster. Through community action, local people are striving to stop the pollution before it’s too late.
Finding the line between safety and adventure is often a delicate question while making first ascents in Slovenian mountains.
The first-place essay from a youth writing competition we hosted with the nonprofit Write the World.
In northern Chile, a desert is being scourged by the textile industry. But a resilient community is transforming a reality of waste into opportunity.
All photos by Ken Etzel If you get your nose close enough, ponderosa pine bark smells like vanilla. Or butterscotch, depending on the tree. Washington is famous for its pine trees. It’s portrayed as a land of constant water and ever-present green, which, in mountain biking terms, translates to a land of perfect trails and…
Louisiana community organizer Roishetta Ozane on her fight to stop the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth and how mutual aid can play a part.
Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.
A conversation with Vincent Stanley, Patagonia’s director of philosophy and co-author of The Future of the Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 50 Years.
Climate and sustainability journalist Yessenia Funes writes to her future child—the one she hopes to have and has been afraid of bringing into our world.
In a small British Columbia mountain town, one woman is using trails to help heal wounds and bridge two communities.
Inside Yakutat Surf Club’s budding stoke scene in Southeast Alaska.
The remarkable relationship between Hidetoshi Matsubara and his birds of prey.
When your goal is to raise children in wild places, it helps if you’re flexible.
Teresa Baker, Pattie Gonia, José González and Gabaccia Moreno bring a new initiative to the outdoor community.
Out of necessity, Jacqueline Sangueza loved fishing nets before she loved the ocean.
Rolling Stone called him “the real Indiana Jones.” His new memoir reveals why our friend Rick was always a great deal more.
First-generation Vietnamese American Mai Nguyen follows in the footsteps of their agrarian ancestors with a farm that grows numerous types of grains with a no-till, anti-fertilizer regenerative approach.
The story of Naelyn Pike, a 21-year-old Chiricahua Apache, and her fight to keep sacred Apache land from becoming a copper mine.
Cydney Knapp and her husband, Bartek, knew they wanted to raise their kids to love the outdoors, so they learned how to navigate change and embraced the chaos.
How a mother’s own childhood experience on the Appalachian Trail shaped the way she teaches her four children to find nature in the heart of New York City.
Why a logging protest has become Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.
