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When Danger Stops Being a Thrill
OUR ALREADY BAD DAY took a terrible turn when Kevin fell into the crevasse. Lucky for him, he was tethered to a blind man. Steve felt the sharp tug and immediately dropped to his butt and dug his...
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When Wolves Attack
The Attack (As told to Joe Spring): I decided to go camping on short notice as an end-of-the-summer deal with five friends—my girlfriend, her sister and brother-in-law, and two male friends. We drove...
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The Kindness of Strangers
Not long after we began a year-long stint in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique, our ten-year-old daughter, Molly, began pressuring us to visit the South African town of Nelspruit, just across the...
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What Qualifies as Dangerous Parenting?
"In six days I can’t possibly describe the range of emotions I have felt so far: anger, joy, sickness, exhaustion, exhilaration, wonder, awe, contentment, peace." So wrote Charlotte Kaufman in her blog...
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How Satellite Trackers Save Lives
In early May, Kevin Boniface was riding his new motorcycle in the Colorado Front Range, along an open off-road area not far from the site of infamous Haymen Fire. The ride was going great—until a...
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The Most Promising Safety Tool Surfacing on the Slopes
The idea is simple: as an avalanche slides, big stuff stays on top and little stuff sifts to the bottom. Airbag-equipped backpacks are primarily designed to make the wearer larger, improving the...
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The Clock Is Ticking
Heading to the backcountry responsibly means knowing how to handle the worst. Equip yourself with these three basic tools. Really make sure you learn how to use them quickly and intelligently in an...
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Enter at Your Own Risk
Don't take on the backcountry without knowing what you're looking at when you see that grand hunk of rock and fluffy white stuff. Each mountain hosts any combination of ever-changing features and...
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5 Avalanche Safety Rules of the Backcountry
Using tools from psychology and advertising, avalanche researcher Ian McCammon has spent the past 20 years analyzing what he calls the psychological terrain. The upshot: more accidents are due to...
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Things That Go Boom
If shovels, beacons, and probes are Avalanche Safety 101, the explosive, noisy techniques that resorts use to manage avalanches are for the expert-only classes. Avalauncher What It Is: A...
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The 35-Piece Ultimate Survival Kit
What's the price of safety? $9,340! Whether you're bugging out, sheltering in place, or just stocking up your bunker, these tools will help you ride out any emergency in style.1. Pack the bomb-proof...
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Be Afraid: 13 True Tales of Outdoor Terror
Who can resist a good mystery, the kind that leaves you both rattled and baffled? Certainly not us. So it's with sinister pleasure that we bring you 13 tales of unrighteous deeds, inexplicable...
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How to Survive a Plunge Into Whitewater Rapids
Mark Lyons was several hours into one of the toughest mountain bike races in the world in November when he found himself at a river crossing, alone, and had to hop off his bike and hoist it to his...
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How to Survive In the Woods for 5 Days
Tim Marsh doesn’t remember blacking out behind the wheel of his truck, but when he came to, he was 20 miles from the nearest highway, on a muddy logging road in the middle of the Oregon backwoods. It...
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9 Things Tokyo’s New Disaster Guide Can Teach You About Survival
There’s a 70 percent chance a major earthquake will directly strike Tokyo in the next 30 years. With over 13 million residents who speak many different languages facing threats ranging from falling...
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How Backcountry Search and Rescue Works
On the evening of February 18, 2016, a taxicab driver in Anchorage, Alaska, dropped off a 26-year-old Alaska National Guardsman named Nephi Soper at the Prospect Heights trailhead a few miles from...
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How to Stop Surviving and Start Living Well Outdoors
Stop reading, watching, and clicking on so-called “survival” content. That word has, for too long, been used to market bad, impractical, largely useless advice to a public all too ready to fantasize...
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"Mayday, Mayday, Mayday," Lost At Sea In Folding Kayaks
At 4:10 a.m. on Friday April 22, an Uber driver dropped Emilio and I off at the entrance of Abalone Cove Shoreline Park in Palos Verdes, California—along with our two Oru Coast Kayaks. At 6:30 a.m., we...
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How to Shore Up Your Emergency Preparedness Kit with 10 Things from Amazon
Presenting the opening keynote address at the National Earthquake Conference this week, Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, painted an alarming picture of the...
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Why Mount Washington Kills
Before sunrise, one Monday morning in February last year, Kate Matrosova’s husband dropped her off at a trailhead in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. An experienced and well-equipped outdoorswoman,...
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