His knives are found throughout the world, from a hunter’s hand following success in the woods to a coveted collector’s case in a country far away. “I am a steel and tool maker,” says 73-year-old Ray Johnson in a deep Missouri drawl. “Basically sixty percent…
Bicycling has come a long way in aligning itself with being outside and raising money for good causes. But pedaling isn’t the way to do good in the Great Outdoors. Across the country, hikers, bikers, paddlers, and even mountaineers are grabbing their gear to help…
We returned to the woods with pep in our steps and were rewarded with the rush of chilled spring run-off cascading down the mountain, the distant drumming of ruffed grouse and a stellar horizon dominated by New Hampshire’s northern Presidentials. There was a rambling woods…
Guilt plagued me, but I decided to hike on. If she was there when I got back, I would call for help. I could see specks of blood in the snow. She was ungroomed and wild. Her ears were set back and she looked at…
If you don’t know tufa from tofu, head to Mono Lake. Coral-looking like tufa towers and groves line the inland lake some two-and-a-half times as salty as the Pacific. Not only a natural resource northeast of Yosemite National Park, Mono (rhymes with U2′s Bono; “Mono…
