The Dirtbag Diaries

Get ready for big waves and two epic ocean rescues. Before becoming a photographer, Jeff Johnson was a young lifeguard, ... Read more

Last year, Aimee Brown got the opportunity of a lifetime a job writing for National Geographic. Excited, she packed her ... Read more

Today, we present Tales of Terror, two stories from the most terrifying moments of our contributor's lives. Our first st... Read more

There is type one fun and type two fun, but today, we are going to explore type three fun. This is the epic. The suffer ... Read more

In the golden days, dirtbags lived to climb. They didn't work, have permanent addresses or sponsors. They ate leftovers ... Read more

To celebrate Halloween, we bring you two tales of terror. Contest winner Chris Peters explains why it pays to listen to ... Read more

Many of us associate our vehicles with freedom, independence and youth. But can a hunk of metal have a soul? Fitz presen... Read more

It can be difficult to separate an initial seed of fear from the growing tangle of possibility that can quickly emerge i... Read more

Is there something out there? It’s a question that lurks in the back of my mind. Probably in yours too.  It’s one of the... Read more

Maybe the cowboy is gone, but the tradition of going West to reinvent oneself has remained a part of our culture. Today,... Read more

Our sports have long heralded rating systems that let us know just how we're doing. We may bicker over their ratings, bu... Read more

Disembodied footsteps, screams in the dark, hooded figures: our tenth annual Tales of Terror might have you questioning ... Read more

With his career stalling and idealism flat lining, Ryan Nickum looked into his past to search for the seed of the travel... Read more

At a quick consideration boxing and alpinism have little in common. Ponder if for a second and you might see the similar... Read more

The average American spends a third of their income on housing. Almost as much as the next two greatest expenses--food a... Read more

Expedition kayakers Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic have what is perhaps the longest running, most successful partne... Read more

"Over two weeks I went from pretty 'fine'--I have to say 'fine' with air quotes and an eye roll because it's that kind o... Read more

Loosely speaking, there are two kinds of fear. There's the fear of external, objective hazards--like getting caught in a... Read more

When writer Alissa Bohling and her longtime boyfriend Paul set out on the Pacific Crest Trail, they thought a trip of th... Read more

The first time I sat around a climber's campfire at 19, I could sense that though our lives were superficially different... Read more