My parents moved to California from Texas during the great migration of African Americans to a safer and more prosperous West (1940-1970). Following routes pioneered by Pullman Porters, the upwardly mobile African American train stewards, my parents,

I make hundreds of decisions in the mountains every year that could have direct consequences. To make the right choices time and again requires being intimately in tune with snow—how it falls, how it sticks, what the subtle textures mean. In the ea

Ask anyone in the outdoor industry about Rue Mapp and they all say the same thing: “She is a force.” And just look at what she has achieved: The California native launched a blog in 2009 with the purpose of getting more African Americans to embra

There’s a breed of old-school reps out there that I grew up idolizing as a young guy getting my start in the outdoor industry in the mid 1990s. They lived in old ambulances, RVs, giant pickup trucks with racks of skis and kayaks for all to partake