Climate Change: Present Tense
Let’s stop talking about climate change in the future tense. Climate change is happening here and now, right in our Blue Ridge backyard.The floods caught e...
March 2019
Kayak Building: To Build a Boat
North Carolina Outdoor Guide and Carpenter inspired by Inuit CraftsmanshipIn 1950, the Canadian government forciblyremoved thousands of Inuit from their an...
Quick Hits: March 2019 Outdoor News
1,700Number of bikes donated to disadvantaged kids by the late Avrum Morrow, who passed away in January at the age of 93. The Montreal-based Morrow had bee...
Director of Outdoor Recreation: First Knight
North Carolina becomes the first state in the East to create an Office of Outdoor Recreation. On his first day as the director of North Carolina’s...
A Path Forward
From Industry to Recreation: Turning Rails into TrailsBorn and raised in Southwest Virginia, Eva Beaule’s family depended on tobacco agriculture for income...
Healing a Broken Spirit: The Running Addict
How Kristopher Cargile turned his life around, one step at a timeWe met on a cold, rainy day in a bustling, upbeat coffeehouse. Amid the hectic clanging, p...
Always Cheat, Always Win: Wilderness Survival 101
Search and Rescue leader Andrew Herrington throws his students into icy creeks and teaches them how to save themselves. Our travel editor Ellen Kanzinger signe...
What to Listen to: Outdoor Podcasts
Athletes and Experts Reveal Their Favorite PodcastsIn 1851, Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal about the sounds of the telegraph that had just come t...
Southerners Love Wilderness
UGA study reveals that 89 percent of visitors to public land support WildernessWilderness designation is a tool for permanent protection of the South's...
The Goods: Fly Gear
Top Regional Guides Dish On Indispensable GearFly fishers are gear people. There are closets full of rods, reels, tools and tying materials. Boxes of...
Alternate A.T.
Looking for a different kind of thru-hike? Try one of these less-crowded long-distance trailsSince Earl Shaffer claimed the first Appalachian Trail th...
The Rivers We Love
Thanks to collaboration from a variety of groups, North Carolina may double the number of Wild and Scenic Rivers this yearHere’s a sign of just how loaded ...
Fly Fishing’s Warmwater Revolution
Seven Destinations To Get In On The ActionThere’s a brutish undercurrent gaining momentum in fly fishing. Across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, anglers ar...
March 2019: Fly Fishing Revolutions
Features
Fly Revolution
Anglers are adapting fly techniques to pursue warmwater fish. Nick Carter highlights eight hotspots for warmwater fly fishing.‘Always ...