Grayson Schaffer
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Santa Fe, NM, United States
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The Best Hunting Gear of 2021
Mathews Vxr 31.5 Bow ($1,199) The Vxr offers exceptional stability, with an extra-long riser and top-to-bottom balance. It’s dead quiet, damp on release, and lets you easily ratchet the draw weight between 50 and 75 pounds without sacrificing efficiency. Klymit Traverse Double Hammock ($90) Catch a quick post-hunt nap with the Traverse Double. It’s made of a single piece of 75-denier polyester… → Read More
10 Things to Know About the Coronavirus Outbreak
Like a lot of you, we've followed the outbreak with a mix of dread and fascination. Here's what we've learned. → Read More
Inside Emily Harrington’s Scary Fall on El Capitan
What could have been a fatal fall is just a stepping stone on Harrington's path to become the first woman to free climb one of El Cap's hardest routes in a day → Read More
The Best Snow Safety Gear of 2019
Gear that’s got your back, should things go sideways → Read More
This Is Literally the West's Worst Winter in 60 Years
There's powder in the forecast from Florida to Vermont, but the southern Rockies continue to be snow starved as the worst season just about anyone can remember continues → Read More
A Single Narrow Gasping Lung
No one knew if it could be done. But when Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climbed Mount Everest without oxygen in 1978, they smashed one of the last barriers of human performance. Almost 40 years later, both legends talk about their first ascent by “fair means”—and the long-running feud that followed. → Read More
How Animal Kingdom Star Scott Speedman Blows Off Steam
Where Animal Kingdom star Scott Speedman goes to blow off steam → Read More
Are Psychedelics the New Prozac?
Was it the time travelers, the jaguar people, or the song from Pocahontas? All I know is that, as my exploration of psychedelics grew from a few campout mushrooms to full-on ayahuasca ceremonies, I felt better than I ever had in my life. → Read More
Chile's Best Whitewater Rivers Won't Be Dammed—For Now
A 20-year fight between energy and environmental interests over some of Chile's last undammed rivers has finally come to a close → Read More
The Last Bastion of Outdoor Outlaws
Fed up with tight National Park regulations—no BASE-jumping, no slacklining, no fun!—adventurers are getting cozy with a surprising new advocate: the Bureau of Land Management. Nowhere are the agency's lenient recreation policies on better display than Moab, Utah. → Read More
Special Report: The Keyhole Seven
When a group of canyoneering beginners were swept away in a flash flood last September, it was the worst disaster in Zion's 97-year history. And it illustrates a growing question: How far should national parks go to keep their visitors safe? → Read More
The Most Successful Female Everest Climber of All Time Is a Housekeeper in Hartford, Connecticut
Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Everest more than any other woman—and now she's on the mountain trying for her seventh summit. So why doesn’t anyone know her name? → Read More
The Most Successful Female Everest Climber of All Time Is a Housekeeper in Hartford, Connecticut
Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Everest more than any other woman—and now she's on the mountain trying for her seventh summit. So why doesn’t anyone know her name? → Read More
The Grand Canyon's Sexual Harassment Problem
As with the highly coveted private and commercial trips that run as long as three weeks, participants live together in the canyon, cooking all of their meals together, sleeping in close proximity, and moving down the river together. Drinking, partying, nudity, sex, and general excess are standard fare on private and commercial trips. But those trips aren’t funded by taxpayers. → Read More
The Big Business of Adventure on Instagram
If a skier hucks without uploading a photo, does anybody see it? A road trip through the exploding business side of Instagram, where pro athletes roam Alberta stalking the next big trophy shot. → Read More
The Toughest Woman on Two Wheels
“You grow up in a cult,” says Juliana Buhring, “and everybody thinks there’s something wrong with you.” → Read More
Google Street View Goes to Everest
Last March and April, shortly before the avalanche that claimed the lives of 16 high-altitude workers on Mount Everest, a team from Google was trekking around Nepal’s Khumbu region in hopes of making the most detailed map of the area to date. The group included tK engineers and international development specialists, and was led on the ground by Apa Sherpa, the legendary mountaineer who’s… → Read More
The Lonesome, Acid-Dropping God of Skiing
Peter Kray’s new novella, The God of Skiing, has a lot to say. We’re not quite sure what it all means, but we sure did enjoy the ride. → Read More
Why Your Instagram Nature Shot Is Breaking the Law
This fall, an Instagrammer named Casey Nocket made news when she posted photos of permanent acrylic portraits that she'd painted on rock faces in national parks across the country. Nocket, who's now under investigation by the National Park Service, isn't an anomaly. She represents an extreme example of a problem that's been cropping up a lot lately: people getting in trouble with their cameras… → Read More
Why Your Instagram Nature Shot Is Breaking the Law
This fall, an Instagrammer named Casey Nocket made news when she posted photos of permanent acrylic portraits that she'd painted on rock faces in national parks across the country. Nocket, who's now under investigation by the National Park Service, isn't an anomaly. She represents an extreme example of a problem that's been cropping up a lot lately: people getting in trouble with their cameras… → Read More