A concise guide to everything you should know before you embark on the route...a quick and dirty introduction to the essentials.

Running the Camino de Santiago is the world's most accessible epic running adventure. The essential information, from someone who's done it.

"Adventures with Emilie" is the great Te Araroa Trail book that the thru hiking world has been waiting for.

Save money, experience the Peloponnesian, and avoid getting stranded on one of Europe's great underrated trails.

Lessons about DIY pilgrimage, backyard adventures, and urban thru-hiking from a really long walk in Portland.

File under: GAP Month inspiration. We’re serving 1997 Angelfire realness around here, so I made this unwieldy in-no-particular-order...

Books that have shaped outdoor and travel culture into what it is today.

The gods may be long gone, but there's still magic on the climb to Mt Olympus

Aotearoa New Zealand has a way of making you care less about things, and more about the outdoors.

Listen, I know this is strangely specific, but I keep running in to people who have left their religion and latched on to the outdoors...

Other people have come up with definitions of "dirtbag" but I wrote the book on it so I'm staking my claim.

The first step on the Pacific Crest Trail, for me, happened on the internet. Big life decisions are like that.

The Lower Hudson, Between Albany and NYC, is a criminally under-appreciated and accessible multi-day paddle.

Running the Camino de Finisterre was both pure suffering and real pilgrimage.

A Camino de Santiago packing list as an illustration of why it's such an amazing adventure.

The Loowit Trail around Mt St Helens is the prettiest, hardest 32 miles you could hope for.

Anish's second solid addition to the adventure writing canon.