On September 2, 2017, 150 hikers in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge were suddenly and terrifyingly trapped above Multnomah Falls by the Eagle Creek Fire. Read More...
I caught up with Jacinta "J" Higgins as she waited for a flight to Colorado, where she’d be learning the intricacies of new Cannondale suspe... Read More...
On Tuesday, February 12, 2019, at an employee meeting at REI headquarters, REI CEO Jerry Stritzke resigned as REI CEO and Eric Artz was named interim CEO. Read More...
On June 20, 2018, an 11-person expedition became the second all-Black U.S. team to summit Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Brittany Leavitt, a 29-year-old preschool teacher and REI Outdoor School instructor, recounts her experience here. Read More...
Last year, REI launched the Force of Nature initiative designed to elevate the conversation around women in the outdoors. One of the main co... Read More...
For the second year, REI Co-op has teamed up with the crew behind The Moth to bring live storytelling events about the outdoors to local com... Read More...
Outdoor School instructor Diedre Tanenberg grew up on the West Coast, where she acquired a passion for pushing herself outside, primarily through camping and whitewater rafting. There’s one thing that makes her classes unique: Tanenberg, who is deaf, teaches her courses in American Sign Language (ASL). Read More...
This year, the REI Co-op released two podcasts–Wild Ideas Worth Living and Take It From Me–about people doing incredible things in the outdo... Read More...
