Brendan Leonard is the creator of Semi-Rad.com, a contributing editor at Climbing Magazine, Adventure Journal, and The Dirtbag Diaries, and has climbed, hiked, and mountain biked all over the American West since he migrated there from Iowa in 2004. REI Member since 2005.
In September 2017, I stepped up to the starting line of the Run Rabbit Run 100 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, alongside my friend Jayson Sime. The race is a 10...
You know it might be coming. It’s literally the last thing you want to experience, because once it happens once, it can and will happen again—as many times in a...
Maybe you’ve had one of those ski days: 7 inches of powder, very little wind, mild temperatures and a somehow uncrowded mountain where you’re still making fresh...
Lessons learned from sharing the privilege of adventure.
For three consecutive summers, I went on a backpacking trip with a bunch of people I didn’t know. We...
Probably every other time I email my friend Alastair Humphreys, I get an automatic reply with the subject line, “Sorry: I've gone to sleep on a hill,” and a one...
I’ve been dabbling in almost everything outdoors for about a dozen years–rock and ice climbing, backpacking, mountaineering, hiking, mountain biking, bike touri...
About a thousand feet from the top of Quandary Peak, a fourteener in Colorado, I pulled my gloved hand off my ski pole and swing my hand around, trying to force...
I’ve been writing about adventure and the outdoors for a little over a decade now, and though I’m no Jon Krakauer, occasionally someone asks for my advice on “h...
Psst. Hey you.
Yeah. It's me.
I'm the desktop photo you daydream about.
You seem busy. Me too. We're all busy now. You are, I am. Hell, your kids are probabl...
Welcome to my adventure vehicle. Please make yourself comfortable. Oh yes, please, you can absolutely eat in here. I would just maybe suggest that you not eat a...
When Christmas 2004 rolled around, I was pretty sure I didn’t want to be a rock climber. I had been working at the REI store in Phoenix for six months, ecstatic...
A few weeks ago, my friend Alan and I climbed a roadside alpine route on Colorado’s Mount Evans. Halfway up the route, Alan started mentioning looking forward t...
