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community

The LGBTQ Outdoor Summit Centered Queer and Trans Joy in the Outdoors

For a brief moment, we were part of a temporary but powerful queer community in the woods.

Nico —

Apr 21, 2022

interview

non-binary

movie features

For Non-Binary Climber Lor Sabourin, Being Outdoors Is Finding Your Body in a Uniquely Liberating Way

“I had to learn to feel safe enough in my body that I was able to go rock climbing. And then climbing made my body feel like a safer place,…

Abbie Jones —

Oct 4, 2021

#blacklivesmatter

fatness

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society + culture

Wild, Fat, Queer and Black: How I Became Free In The Mountains And Never Left

If you have ever met a mountain, you know that can’t nobody really own a mountain because they are too majestic, too strong, too beautiful to be tamed or owned.…

shea wesley martin —

Nov 12, 2020

gardening

outdoors

house & garden

The Queer Gardener’s Almanac: Winter

Autostraddle’s giant survey last year showed that queers will make the most of even the tiniest outdoor patches they can get their green-fingered mitts on. It’s time we celebrated the…

Sally —

Feb 21, 2020

outdoors

photoessay

health

The Second Annual LGBTQ Outdoor Summit: A Magic Alternate Reality Where Everyone in the Outdoors is Queer

The second annual LGBTQ Outdoor Summit in California was full of panels, workshops, discussions, opportunities to talk to representatives from the outdoor industry — and a place for LGBT members…

Carrot Quinn —

Oct 26, 2018

body positivity

fat positivity

community

Fatventure Mag Is Here to Reshape the Way We Tell Stories About Fat People and Adventures

Fatventure Mag, a print and digital magazine, seeks to change the narrative about who deserves an adventurous life and who can tell stories about those adventures. The first volume is…

Vanessa —

May 30, 2018

outdoors

recipes

Taste of the Wilderness: Luxurious Backcountry Meals

Tips and tricks to making your backcountry meals as delicious and decadent as can be, without compromising your pack weight (too much).

Vanessa —

May 16, 2018

fullscreen

greatest hits

first person

Why I Got Off the Pacific Crest Trail After 454 Miles Instead of Walking All the Way to Canada

I stopped hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017 because of toxic masculinity and bro culture in the hiking community. It exists, it’s shitty, and it fucked me up.

Vanessa —

Feb 5, 2018

fatness

Miniseries