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    Your Favorite Extreme Athlete is Moonlighting as a Motivational Speaker

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    The Greening of Alex Honnold

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In progress: Ice Axes to Axe Handles: The Life and Work of Gary Snyder

In progress. Publication: Autumn 2025....
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Outside Magazine Online: Winging It with the New Backcountry Barnstormers

I sat to Palmer’s right, a motion-sickness bracelet on my left wrist, anti-nausea gum in my mouth, and a gallon-size ziplock at my feet.
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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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In progress: I Went Southwest: The Death and Afterlife of Lew Welch

13,300 words. Publication: Alta Journal, Summer 2025....
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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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