The Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup isn't a trail run. It’s a tricky mix of exposed scrambling and endless talus-hopping that tags at least 21 named peaks and a few unnamed ones along the skyline of Little Cottonwood Canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah. Luke Nelson takes on the FKT—a long day that ultimately was about more than just a record. Read the story here: festivalwalk
Kye Petersen and friends set up a basecamp deep in British Columbia's rugged Tantalus Range for a week in mid-March. They expected incredible skiing. What they got instead was wind--lots of it, with damaging intensity. But the group weathered the storm, only to come back to a new reality. Kieran Brownie ponders the wind, the virus—and ultimately how we're all connected. Read the story here: festivalwalk
“The trip hinged on the potential we’d seen in photos taken unwittingly by a group of German hikers and posted online. Our eyes had been drawn behind the beaming smiles in their holiday snaps to a stacked lineup of overhead right handers in the background, peeling along a basalt reef in the lee of an extinct volcano.…”
We think of a forest as an ecosystem where animals eat plants. In the Tongass National Forest, it’s the other way around: The trees eat the animals. Each fall, mature salmon return to the shaded rivers, spawn and die. Just as the rivers provide a nursery for the next generation of salmon fry, the rotting carcasses of the mamas and papas create a stew of nutrients along the riverbanks.
