Volume 6, Issue 4, Winter 2011-2012
Wendex
Wending by the Numbers
Playground
Traversing Mordor
Pack rafts, volcanoes and a human-powered journey across Iceland.
by Alastair Humphreys & Chris Herwig
Rucksack
Memento of the Winter Months
Editor Ernest Shackleton and the creation of the first book ever published in Antarctica.
by Kyle Cassidy
Soundtrackers
The quest to save the vanishing sounds of silence.
by Bryan Schatz
Shitstorm at Snowbowl
Controversy surrounds an Arizona ski resort’s plans to dump snow made from treated sewage effluent on sacred mountains.
by Chris Kassar
Platform
Protect Our Winters [ read ]
Wend talks with founder and executive director Jeremy Jones about mobilizing the winter sports community to combat climate change.
by Sarah Esterman
Footprint
A Kingdom for a Barrel [ preview ]
Amazon inspire the world to look past nationhood for collective conservation?
by David Biller & Valentí Zapater
Feast
Warrior Blood [ read ]
Passing the gourd with Masai warriors in Kenya.
by Jayme Moye, Claudia Chang & Christina Erb
Snap
Ice Riders
Bicycling Siberia’s Lake Baikal.
by Chris Pike & Maikey Lopera
Wanderlust
Back to Rattlesnake Mountain [ preview ]
Climbing Hanford’s forbidden peak is even more enticing when it’s right in your backyard.
by Kyle Cassidy & Ryan Renteria
Passport
Single-Track Mind: The Strange Case of Michael J. Vandeman
An illustrated report on the trial of a vigilante environmentalist accused of assaulting mountain bikers in Berkeley.
by Peter Frick-Wright & Pyar Anderson
Survival Kit
Too Hot in the Hot Tub!
Trailhead
Mountains of Measure
How a failed ski mountaineering expedition led to mountainous salvation in the Himalayas.
by Taylor Woodward
