Ryan Wichelns

Dec 3, 2024 | yahoo.com | Ryan Wichelns

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." We’ll be the first to admit it: Skiing requires a lot of stuff. Skis, boots, bindings, poles, fancy heated mittens, special socks, helmets, and on and on. It’s a lot to try and jam into the trunk of your car, especially when much of that gear is soggy, wet, or frozen. Enter: the ski rack.

Aug 22, 2024 | rei.com | Michelle Flandreau |Ryan Wichelns

By now, we all know: Our national parks are popular. In 2023, visits to National Park Service-operated lands topped 325 million annual visits. Yosemite National Park is no exception. The park saw a drop in visitation to the park during the COVID-19 pandemic, but visits have increased every year since then with 3.89 million visits last year. But unlike Yellowstone, at Yosemite visitors often are hemmed in by 3,000-foot-tall cliffs and granite domes.

Dec 19, 2023 | rei.com | Sarah Grothjan |Ryan Wichelns

A low rumble down the valley rattles me awake—it’s not loud nor physically jarring from where I’m camped on the West Fork of Alaska’s Ruth Glacier, but the distant avalanche is still deep, guttural and impressive. I sit up just enough to remove my sleeping bag’s hood from my ears, and that little bit of movement is enough to send down a shower of ice crystals from the tent ceiling. This is what happens when camping in the cold.

Oct 10, 2023 | outdoorsportswire.com | Ryan Wichelns

Shipping next month, the magazine’s newest issue is only more proof of the viability of a growing new model of adventure journalism. October 10, 2023 /OUTDOOR SPORTSWIRE/ – More than a year removed from a Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $25,000 for the project, Trails Magazine is gearing up to hit print on its fourth issue, arriving in subscriber’s mailboxes in November.

Jun 16, 2023 | yahoo.com | Ryan Wichelns