Volume 5, Issue 4, Fall 2010

Wendex

Wending by the Numbers

Playground

Courting the King of Trails

Triple Crowner Adam Bagerski celebrates the Continental Divide Trail.

Now & Then

Timeless Adventure

Wipeout

Flying Pretzel, Cold Splash

Photographer Shawn Davis wades in and captures a moment of windsurfing gone wrong.

Greenery

The Crossroads

Where green science and fashion intersect in the outdoor apparel industry.

Platform

Outdoors Alliance [ read ]

Wend talks with outdoor recreation activist Adam Cramer about his work in Washington, D.C.

Footprint

Changing Faces [ preview ]

Ski mountaineer Kasha Rigby ponders her addiction to oil-enabled adventure while trapped between sheer blue ice and a drop into the unknown on a remote peak in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Feast

Sensory Overload in Morocco [ read ]

Growing up in Southeast Asia prepared Nellie Huang to stomach a variety of foods, but her friends have a harder time as the group works its way through the chaos and mysterious delicacies of Djemaa el Fna.

Snap

Mongolian Groove

Photographer Ryan Salm captures the quiet power of undisturbed nature while riding horseback through the Khoridal Saridag range in northern Mongolia.

Wanderlust

Apocalypse Training in God’s Country [ preview ]

Hoping to learn something of survival, Daniel Wakefield Pasley follows a motley band of vagabonds as they ride deep into the heart of the Utah desert on beastly mountain bikes loaded with guns and drugs.

Passport

After the Time of Cholera [ preview ]

Brian Kevin and Sky Gilbar re-create the route of turn-of-the-century steamboats to explore the relationship between Colombia’s Magdalena River and its people 25 years after novelist Gabriel García Márquez’s literary prediction that the river would one day become “only an illusion of memory.”

Survival Kit

Let the Wild Rumpus Begin

Trailhead

Delusions in Appalachia

Pro kayaker and former National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Trip Jennings reflects on his role in the near drowning of a friend on the Watauga River in the mountains of North Carolina.