I started hiking solo because I didn’t have any other choice. I didn’t know anybody who backpacked. I didn’t get the idea from friends or...

We often make fun of conversations about the weather as being shallow-- small-talk. But inevitably when the Rugged Outdoors Women Write...

A collaborative piece from Christine Reed (author) and Dana Musgrave (artist). I am not a climber. I’ve had a climbing gym membership for...

In Alone in Wonderland, I bemoan my slow pace. Sometimes for comic relief, but often because it is just a fact of my existence on the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson is often credited for having said "it's about the journey, not the destination." What he really said was, "to finish...

Over the years, with thousands of miles of trail beneath my feet, I have been asked so many times whether I would choose mountains or...