ADVENTURE & ENVIRONMENT

Rolling Stone: Humans Killed Cataract Canyon. It Brought Itself Back to Life.
AppleNews Top Good News Stories of the Year

Outside: Christina Lusti Skis the Impossible
Outside’s Best Longform Stories of the Year

Atavist: Alone at the Edge of the World
Anthologized in The Year’s Best Sports Writing

Atavist: The Longest Journey
Anthologized in The Year’s Best Sports Writing

Women’s Health: Adventure Sports Celebrate Risk. Who Helps the Survivors After Disaster?

The New York Times: Ghost Ships

National Geographic: Inside the Race to Rescue Arctic Relics Before It’s Too Late

National Geographic: This 50-year Project Tracks the Impacts of the Cascades’ Melting Glaciers

Vanity Fair: “Women Will Not Be Admitted on the Climb”

TIME: What an All-Female Team to Summit Denali Can Teach Us About Historic Firsts

TIME: Meet The Man Aiming to Become Jamaica’s Olympic Ski Team of One

TIME: A Skiing Pioneer’s Unlikely Survival Story in Canada’s Backcountry

Men’s Journal: She Was Turned Away From Two Expeditions. Then Tragedy Struck.

Men’s Journal: The Most Dangerous Race

Adventure Journal: The Reckoning: North America’s Mountain Community Begins to Face the Emotional Cost of Avalanches

Outside: Kids and an Exciting Mountain Career? It’s Complicated.

Glamour: Spend More Time Outside. Doctor’s Orders.

Forbes: More Women Than Ever Are Leading Outdoor Media. Here’s What That Means.

POLITICS & THE WEST

Esquire: The Wildfire-Fighting Union Leader Who Could Change Montana Politics

The New York Times: Denali Will Always Be Denali

Rolling Stone: For Wolves, the Culture War is Extremely Deadly

Men’s Health: 24 Hours on the Front Lines of the Rural Hospital Crisis

Politico: “I Didn’t Vote for This”: A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country

Politico: North Idaho Has Drifted to the Extreme Right. One Republican Think It’s Hit Its Limit

The Guardian: North Idaho’s Lone Abortion Rights Organizer Defies Militias and the Far Right

Rolling Stone: Rikki Held Fought the Climate Crisis in Court. And Won.

Huffington Post: Who Owns a River? The Question is Tearing This Community Apart

High Country News: Hunters and Anglers Flex Their Political Muscles

The Pulp: The Complicated Rise of Missoula’s Logjam Presents

Sierra: Tapping Indigenous Knowledge Can Help Us Navigate a Changing Climate

TRAVEL

National Geographic: This Wyoming Dude Ranch is an Iconic Slice of Americana

Financial Times: In Nepal’s Hidden Valley

Outside: Is Travel Worth the Carbon Footprint?

Forbes: Welcome to the World’s Only Bush Plane Ski Touring Lodge

Travel + Leisure: How Instagram Is Skewing the Way We Talk About Women Outdoors

Travel + Leisure: Everything You Need to Know to Trek Patagonia’s Torres Del Paine

The Week: I Wanted a Soulmate Who Would Travel With Me

BBC Travel: The Birthplace of Canada’s Mountain Culture

Backpacker: The 5 Best Backcountry Huts in New Zealand

ESSAYS

Longreads: The Road to Becoming Enough
Longreads’ Best Personal Essays of the Year

The Guardian: I Chose to Be Childfree. I Didn’t Think I Was Choosing Isolation, Too.

Adventure Journal: The Long Way Home

POWDER: Adult Onset Skiing