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2 months ago | 
rv.com | Zach Dundas |Kraig Becker
A Portland shop puts its stamp on stunner Sprinters, inside and out. The Central Eastside is Portland, Oregon’s burly quadrant, a century-plus-old industrial zone full of muscular brick warehouses, a working neighborhood to the core. Duck into one cavernous garage in particular and you’ll find outdoor rigs that match the mood. Imposing Mercedes Sprinter vans fill the space, their finishes matte and futuristic, their interiors on the way to becoming mobile modernist cabins.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
wildsam.com | Zach Dundas
Summit, one of the coolest-looking climbing journals ever, returns to the peaks. Like many great American pastimes, mountain climbing has inspired a catalog of classic magazines covering the sport’s lore, gossip and nitty-gritty. Climbing had a glossy heyday; Alpinistis a brainy, literary take on a sport with a proud heritage of writing and philosophy. Among climbing’s print stack, Summit always stood out.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
rv.com | Zach Dundas |Kraig Becker
An RV innovator christens its next generation. This past summer, the Indiana factory making Grand Design’s newest vehicle was itself a work in progress. Starting at a bracing early hour, the plant’s largely Amish crew moved the first Lineage Series M rigs through an assembly line so new that its workstations were coming on line in sequence as individual units reached new production stages. The workers were essentially turning the factory on piece by piece, as needed.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
wildsam.com | Jennifer Justus |Zach Dundas |Melissa Corbin
TWO CENTURIES AGO, the Erie Canal helped make Niagara Falls a tourism staple of two nations. We haven’t stopped gawking since. Photographer Brian Finke captured a summer weekend, and we talked to locals who keep the place flowing. The Captain Captain Kaitlynn McHenry—the first woman to helm the Maid of the Mist in the 178-year history of the sightseeing boat company—grew up outside Rochester, NY. In high school, she worked as a deckhand on Erie Canal.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
wildsam.com | H. Drew Blackburn |Samantha Alviani |Jennifer Justus |Zach Dundas
The Starlight Motor Inn | Lizzy RollinsCLASSIC MOTOR LODGES ARE IN A COMEBACK ERA, SETTING NEW STANDARDS FOR ROADSIDE HOSPITALITY. THESE ARE OUR 27 FAVORITES ACROSS THE US. Nostalgia for road trips and the mom-and-pop motor hotels of yesteryear runs deep. Neon signage worthy of preservation status. Charming, if barebones, guest offerings (i.e. “Color TV”). The ease and utility of getting in, out, and back-on-the-road.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
wildsam.com | Zach Dundas
OutdoorsThe legendary rock climber spills on a life of adventure and her brand-new memoir. Words by BY ZACH DUNDASPHOTOGRAPHY BY ELLIOTT VERDIERBeth after a day of climbing in Fontainebleau, France. WHEN BETH RODDEN was fresh from high school (and in the process of bailing on college), freedom took the form of a two-door, mid-’90s Honda Civic. It wasn’t much, but for a young woman who aspired above all to scale Yosemite’s vast granite walls, it was home.
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May 15, 2024 | 
wildsam.com | Zach Dundas
Three days in Yellowstone reveal burbling geysers, roaming bison and more. Back in 1872, when Yellowstone became our first national park, tales of boiling, steaming wilderness were often considered too weird to be believed. Today—after generations of family vacations and pop culture stretching from Yogi Bear to Kevin Costner—the situation is nearly reversed. The savvy traveler of 2024 might be tempted to skip Yellowstone in favor of some lesser-known, bragging-rights-y destination.
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May 6, 2024 | 
wildsam.com | Zach Dundas
Cities & TownsThe treasures in the "Old Pueblo" are endless. Words By Zach DundasTucson's Miracle Mile. | Jay CarrollTucson! The name carries a dusty throwback mystique. And history does run deep in the desert city, into an ancient past. Today’s downtown sits near 4,000-year-old farming sites at the base of Sentinel Peak. Just south of town, the Tohono O’odham Nation’s San Xavier Reservation encompasses both a 17th-century Spanish mission and thousand-year-old archaeological finds.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
wildsam.com | Zach Dundas
Food & DrinkThe crunchy chip was founded in Auburn, Washington in 1986. Words By Zach DundasPHOTOGRAPHY BY Laura MurrayIF YOU DON'T CONSIDER the Pacific Northwest a hotbed of salty grab-and-go, no worries. The organic-everything Far Corner does feel removed from Big Snack, but its regional chip game is strong. Kettle Foods, founded in Salem, Oregon, with origins in a ’70s Sikh commune, grew to be the nation’s biggest “natural” potato chip maker.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
wildsam.com | Zach Dundas
Tracksmith hit the road in 2014, and since then the brand has created its own world of classic running apparel. It's also spun a heartfelt cultural ambiance around its gear. In both products and projects, Tracksmith evokes the rich history of track and road racing—meanwhile investing in the sport’s future by supporting grassroots athletes. Wildsam talked with Tracksmith founder Matt Taylor about the company’s commitment to running and its New England roots.
