Every year, as the effects of climate change compound and grow, wildfire season across the West is starting earlier and ending later. Warmer springs, hotter summers, winters with reduced snowpack, and...

If you’re someone who builds at least a little of their identity around outdoor recreation and the places you visit as part of that, it’s likely you have personal feelings attached to the conversation...

At just 22-years-old, artist Louisa Palmer doles out sage life lessons like someone three times her age: “Dreams don’t have to stay fantasies in your head while you sit at your desk during a nine...

If setting out to paint the Wasatch range and effectively capturing its massive peaks, jagged ridges and grandiose scale already seems like it would be a challenge, imagine trying to do so using only tiny...

Ten years ago, Claire Giordano was on an Inspiring Girls Expedition trip to explore and study Mount Baker’s glaciers when her instructor taught the group to create fast watercolor sketches of their observations....

A few weeks ago, after a successful summit of Mt. Adams in Washington, my climbing partner and I were on our way back to the car when we started talking about outdoor recreation, the privilege that comes...

Outdoor artist Katie Reim likes to compare painting to endurance running — “Sometimes you just lose yourself in it and time just disappears. Both can be fun and boring. Frustrating and rewarding. Exhausting...

While mountain adventures abound in the Salt Lake Valley, beautiful canyons are everywhere, and are just as great for local recreation. If you like to breathe hard and enjoy great views, road biking up...

Leah Thomas’s voice comes crackling through the phone on a hot summer afternoon, “So great to speak with you! You should know that if I’m breaking up, it’s because I’m driving through the mountains...