Ryan Wichelns

Yosemite Wilderness and Half Dome Permits Guide

Ryan Wichelns|October 30, 2020

Editor’s note: Please consult the CDC or your state health department for information related to the COVID-19 pandemic. When spending time outdoors, please recr...

What You Need to Know Before Buying a Ski Pass This Year

Ryan Wichelns|October 8, 2020

Editor’s note: Please consult the CDC or your state health department for information related to the COVID-19 pandemic. When spending time outdoors, please recr...

Best Hiking in Florida

Ryan Wichelns|September 8, 2020

Florida doesn’t have the summit vistas, alpine lakes, red rock canyons or broad glacial valleys that define our nation’s other hiking hot spots. But if you’re n...

Gear I Hold Dear: My Box of Maps

Ryan Wichelns|August 20, 2020

From where I sit, I can see the blue-blazed Northville-Placid Trail snaking through the rough-and-tumble High Peaks Wilderness Area in New York’s Adirondack Mou...

Good Gear: PrimaLoft Creates a New Way to Make Insulation More Sustainable

Ryan Wichelns|July 22, 2020

For more than 30 years, the process of creating synthetic insulation at PrimaLoft’s Vietnamese manufacturing facility was mostly unchanged. Webs of synthetic in...

Material Science: Everything You Need to Know About Sleep Systems

Ryan Wichelns|June 7, 2020

A version of this story appeared in the summer 2020 issue of Uncommon Path. The Sleeping Bag Many bags you’ll find at REI come with two temperature ratings...

Gear I Hold Dear: The Teva Ember Moc

Ryan Wichelns|April 29, 2020

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...

First Look: The 6 Coolest Winter Camping Products We Saw at Outdoor Retailer

Ryan Wichelns|February 13, 2020

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...

Best Adventures Near Burlington, Vermont

Ryan Wichelns

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...

Head to Head: Rack ‘Em Up

Ryan Wichelns|January 9, 2020

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...

10 Things to do in the Adirondacks

Ryan Wichelns

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...

6 Adventures in Oklahoma’s Wichita Mountains

Ryan Wichelns|November 8, 2019

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...

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Yosemite Wilderness and Half Dome Permits Guide

What You Need to Know Before Buying a Ski Pass This Year

Best Hiking in Florida

Gear I Hold Dear: My Box of Maps

Good Gear: PrimaLoft Creates a New Way to Make Insulation More Sustainable

Material Science: Everything You Need to Know About Sleep Systems

Gear I Hold Dear: The Teva Ember Moc

First Look: The 6 Coolest Winter Camping Products We Saw at Outdoor Retailer

Best Adventures Near Burlington, Vermont

Head to Head: Rack ‘Em Up

10 Things to do in the Adirondacks

6 Adventures in Oklahoma’s Wichita Mountains

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