Ryan is a freelance journalist and climber. His favorite climbs are the random, unaesthetic snow- and ice-covered heaps in the middle of nowhere that require a weeklong scree-choked slog to maybe climb. Don’t ask him why. REI member since 2017.
A version of this story appeared in the summer 2020 issue of Uncommon Path.
Whether you’re a family car camper, an overlander or somewhere in between, settl...
Your days probably look quite a bit different right now. Mine certainly do. I’m showering on my lunch break, writing stories from the backyard, baking bread bet...
Your hands are everything in the winter: your anchors to the ice pitch, balance points while slashing powder, tools while setting up camp and utensils to help y...
We’ll be the first to admit: Winter camping is a little bit masochistic. But these new pieces of gear are designed to make it a little more bearable, if not dow...
Vermont isn’t exactly known for its city life. The tiny state is much more famous for its year-round adventures: Ski hills dot the mountains, peaks beg to be ba...
A version of this story appeared in the winter 2020 issue of Uncommon Path.
Skis and snowboards are big. The decision about which car-top carrier is right f...
Adirondack Park is more difficult to define than most state—or even national—parks. For starters, it’s massive: The greenspace, codified in the state constituti...
The last thing you might expect to see driving across the flat plains of Oklahoma are the bouldery, 1000-foot-tall Wichita Mountains. They bubble out of the pra...
The biggest piece of lifesaving gear you carry into the backcountry might not be something you even know you have. It doesn’t need batteries or a subscription. ...
The Problem
Headlamp packaging has a lot of tough-to-decipher numbers and icons, but there are two specs that really matter: lumens and run time. Most headlamp...
At the dawn of the computer age, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore looked at the already-rampant advances in the microprocessor and theorized that going forward, th...
For most climbers and ski mountaineers, a trip to the top of Denali takes about a month, door to door. Typically, the travel to Anchorage is the easy part—one f...
