“Self-rescue is the best rescue” is something I’ve heard at every river safety talk. While overall I agree with the sentiment, my pedantic nature can’t let it go. “If a rescue is necessary, self-rescue...

There is a place in the panhandle of Idaho where the world feels a little holier, where the water flows blue and cold and reckless, where sunsets creep over cliff-sides towering above the river bank. This...

Darkness settled over Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. A light night-time breeze cut through the heat and humidity of the day and the moon cast a lovely glow over the neighborhood’s famous colonial architecture....

It’s around 9:15 in the evening on a Thursday, and I’m gearing up for a bike ride. I’m in my backyard with a couple of friends, ten blocks to the east of the 9th and 9th intersection that marks the...

With satellite imagery of most of the Earth’s surface and some mapping of the ocean floor, very few places on this planet are truly unknown. Now, with the James Webb telescope showing us distant clusters...

This summer I spent around two months in the South of France visiting family. We stayed in a small village just one hour east of the Atlantic and one hour north of the Pyrenees. Being so close to some...

I became enamored with hiking after spending a year at sea level in a crowded city in northern France, where sunlight and green things were so rare it was as if a gray film was perpetually over my eyes....

With Salt Lake’s ski areas seeming to be on a collision course with an early closure, I figure there’s no time like the present to get excited for the spring. I’m feeling optimistic today, and feel...

“Never let go of the brake strand,” I firmly told a student for the third time in less than a minute. Just before we started the exercise, learning how to rappel, I heavily emphasized the importance...