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Alta Journal, Print and Online: This Place Belongs to You

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Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

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Outside Magazine Online Feature: “I Write for Katie”: How Katie Ives Climbs Mountains at ‘Alpinist’

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    Explanatory

    Alta Journal, Print and Online: This Place Belongs to You

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

    Mining a Richer Vein

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    Profile

    Alta Journal, Print and Online: This Place Belongs to You

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: “I Write for Katie”: How Katie Ives Climbs Mountains at ‘Alpinist’

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

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    Travel

    The Telemarking Snow Farmer of Central Appalachia

    Nordic Norms, or Finding Friluftsliv

    Into the Heart of Patagonia’s Secret Archives

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    Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

    Sacrifice, Grief, and the Outdoor Athlete in the Time of COVID-19

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    Investigative

    Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

    Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

    Figures on a Landscape

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

    Sacrifice, Grief, and the Outdoor Athlete in the Time of COVID-19

    Your Favorite Extreme Athlete is Moonlighting as a Motivational Speaker

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    The Greening of Alex Honnold

    The Adventure Gap and Narratives of Inclusion

    Art of the Wild: Gessner, Stegner, and Abbey

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    The Alchemist

    Abbey’s Back

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    Alta Journal, Print and Online: This Place Belongs to You

    A 5,200-word profile of Joshua Tree National Park and its superintendent, David Smith.
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    Outside Magazine Online Feature: “I Write for Katie”: How Katie Ives Climbs Mountains at ‘Alpinist’

    Feature profile of Alpinist Magazine’s editor-in-chief, Katie Ives, and her influence on mountain literature. Also a review of her book,...
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    The Telemarking Snow Farmer of Central Appalachia

    Profile of West Virginia's cross country skiing impresario, Chip Chase.
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    Sacrifice, Grief, and the Outdoor Athlete in the Time of COVID-19

    An essay exploring COVID-19, as it relates to both grief and outdoor adventure.
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    Nordic Norms, or Finding Friluftsliv

    Combining travel journalism and profile, this feature-length inquiry explores the Norwegian concept of friluftsliv, as seen through the eyes of professional skijorer Karoline Conradi Øksnevad.
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    Your Favorite Extreme Athlete is Moonlighting as a Motivational Speaker

    A look into how and why adventure athletes evolved into motivational speakers for big industry.
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    The Public Ownership of Fred Beckey

    A remembrance of the late Fred Beckey and an analysis of how climbing's folkloric tradition imbued his legend.
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    13 Lessons to Make You Really, Truly Happy. Maybe.

    A feature-length tongue-in-cheek review of UC Berkeley's Science of Happiness course. The Outside piece was later picked up by The Guardian.
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    Into the Heart of Patagonia’s Secret Archives

    A feature-length look at how the creators of Patagonia's new museum of products from its past intend it to sustain the company well into the future.
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    The Art of Turning Climate Change Science into Music

    Researchers Lauren Oaks and Nik Sawe converted Oakes' doctoral research into music, a process called sonification. This piece explains how and why.
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    Ashes into the Shadow of Arrows

    An essay about the influence of landscape on one's life...and death.
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    Euell Gibbons: No Grape Nut He

    THE AUTHOR AND FORAGER Euell Theophilus Gibbons once served as the folksy face of Grape-Nuts, the breakfast cereal that contains neither...
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    The Natural

    Profile of Peter Mayfield, a pioneer in nature-based therapy for youth, and the former Chief Guide of the Yosemite School of Mountaineering.
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    Outside Magazine Online: Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious Honor

    Outside Online: 2,400-word social justice/essay. Antisemitic Statements by a Climbing Pioneer Prompt the American Alpine Club to Rename a Prestigious...
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    Outside Magazine Online Feature: Leaving the Grace of This World

    An inquiry into the psychological and biological causes of Michigan attorney Richard Jerome Levine's 2003 suicide in a Michigan trout stream.
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    Mining a Richer Vein

    Feature article about the ongoing efforts of the superintendent of Breaks Interstate Park in Central Appalachia, Austin Bradley, to replace...
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    Rebelling Against the Void

    A feature profile of the prolific author-climber-explorer, David Roberts.
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    Jennifer Ridgeway Tribute

    An remembrance of Jennifer Ridgeway, the mastermind behind the look and feel -- and outsize influence -- of the Patagonia Catalog.
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    In Search of a Dying Tree and a Change for Our Climate

    A review of environmental scientist Lauren Oakes' 2018 release, In Search of the Canary Tree.
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    It’s Not Just High Temps Messing with Snow — It’s Dust

    Explainer about windborne dust and carbon's effect on premature runoff, and the ongoing efforts of NASA's Tom Painter to estimate future trends.
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    The Many Faces of Mt. Whitney

    The Mount Whitney Zone, a designated wilderness, sees more visitors each year than its land managers can handle. This feature explains why.
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    The Outdoor Industry is About to Become a Serious Political Force

    An examination of how the Bureau of Economic Analysis codified outdoor industry's contributions to gross domestic product, and what that means for outdoor recreation writ large.
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    The Faces of Climbing’s Golden Age, as They Aged

    A review and overview of photographer Jim Herrington's award-winning coffee-table-sized-tome, "The Climbers."
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    The Jensen Pack

    Don Jensen’s genius informed the shape of the pack you wear on your back today....
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    Figures on a Landscape

    The story of how the mechanics of memory created four divergent origin myths of a famous climb in Joshua Tree National Park.
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