For centuries, dowsers have claimed the ability to find groundwater, precious metals, and other quarry using divining rods and an uncanny intuition. Is it the real deal or woo-woo?

Park ranger Paul Fugate vanished on an Arizona trail more than forty years ago. Investigators are still looking for him.

Love, loss, and growing up in the Utah desert

A rider’s self-improvement project becomes a whole lot more.

A nephew investigates his uncle’s suicide

A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.

A 32-year-old medical student finally goes on the record.

In her pandemic summer, a college student retreated to a cabin on an island, and a job on a lobster boat.

What happened when 59-year-old Paralympian Angela Madsen set out to row from California to Hawaii.

How dexamethasone corrupted mountaineering.

On hope, violence, and being Black in the outdoors.

Two friends try to make a dream come true.

A trip into the Arctic.

There are myriad arguments for and against eating roadkill. Can they all be true at the same time?

John Ackerman has spent millions procuring a majority of the known caves in Minnesota, which add up to dozens of miles of underground passageways and likely make him the largest cave owner in the U.S. He collects and charts them in the name of preservation, but his controversial methods have created many opponents.

On a newfound appreciation for the stroll.

A letter from a cyclist who survived.

A Ranger graduate breaks down an ordeal that shapes some of the nation’s finest soldiers.

Two brothers attempt to bond on a trek in the Cascades

Artist Eric Bealer was living the remote, rugged good life in coastal Alaska with his wife, Pam, an MS sufferer, when they made a dramatic decision: to exit this world together, leaving behind precise instructions for whoever entered their cabin first.

Behind the scenes of the survivalist reality-TV show.

Investigating one of the deadliest maritime disasters in U.S. history.

Who gets to decide when a destination is “at capacity”?

The view of a life from cruising altitude.

On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.