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This article originally appeared in Blue Ridge Outdoors. Click here to see the original article. More beginners are exploring the outdoors. Let’s welcome them. I remember when I started educating myself on all things outdoors. It was before the proliferation of online...

Every tour has those moments when all that could be said has been spoken, the laughs have been exhausted, the sights are redundant, and everyone settles into their own rhythm, their own thoughts. In this moment, we touch solitude in the midst of company and we permit ourselves to do what bike rides are great for — processing. It was at this time that I began to contemplate the irony of my current reality. Clad in spandex, I was riding a bicycle loaded with gear to allow me to sleep in the “bush,” as we call it back home where I’m from.

As only the third Black owner of a specialty outdoor shop in the U.S., Mandela Echefu went out in search of a mentor, and found one

Four explorers paving the way for a new outdoor industry speak in their own words

From Allegany Magazine's January 2022 edition. Read the full article here. Reader Commentary One Year In… A Sleepy Charming Town and Touting the Truth that Self-Discovery Lies in the Outdoors One of Cumberland’s newer businesses reports on its first full year in...

This article originally appeared in Blue Ridge Outdoors. Click here to see the original article. The climate and demographics of snowsports are changing. Today’s world is changing, both in a literal and philosophical sense. Winter sports are a sector, grappling with...

Growth opportunities in ski patrol with minorities