Adventure Travel

Gear brands are taking advantage of the adventure travel boom—and not by making duffels.  The United Nations World Tourism Organization has recorded robust growth in the number of international tourist trips over the past three years, and outdoor brands are jumping to ...read more

Within an hour of disembarking a small plane at the Redmond Municipal Airport near Bend, Oregon, I find myself in the woods at the front desk of my hotel, LOGE Camps, for the weekend. Except it doesn't feel like a hotel. There's a cafe and bar, where a group of mountain bikers ...read more

What do you get when a record number of climbers ascend Everest? More trash, the Nepalese government discovered this year after collecting over 11 tons from the world's tallest mountain in May. It's been called the "world's highest garbage dump." To cut down on waste, Nepal is ...read more

In January 2019, SNEWS launched a comprehensive outdoor industry salary survey in partnership with Category One to gather concrete data on salaries of people working in the outdoor industry, from sales to PR, from marketing to gear design, from retail to media, from athletes to ...read more

The world of magazine publishing is changing rapidly as the expectation of digital content becomes the standard. Today, consumers are less inclined to stop and pick up a magazine and more likely to pick up their phones. In a screen-dominated society, print magazines are looking ...read more

Every year, Americans spend more on outdoor recreation than they do on pharmaceuticals and fuel, combined, the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) reports. The outdoor recreation economy generates $887 billion in annual consumer spending, 7.6 million jobs, $65.3 billion in federal ...read more

Mt. Everest is expensive and hard to get to, let alone a beast to climb. It's become known as an experience only for the wealthy. And frankly, Suzanne "Sunny" Stroeer thinks not enough women are climbing high-altitude peaks. But today, Stroeer through her guiding business, ...read more

It's 5 a.m. in Bryce Canyon National Park and a group of people with cameras are alone in the park under the starry sky. Their feet stamp the ground, they rub their frozen hands together to warm them, and their coffee steams as they open thermoses. When the first ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors. Ride the elevator with Taylor Pawley, Sunny Eaton, Karin Balsley, and Ashley Giordano, of Women Overlanding the World Retreats. We are a group ...read more

As the federal government shutdown continues into its fifth week, the business of outdoor recreation is feeling the effects. Specialty retail stores and adventure outfitters located in gateway communities near national parks are on the front lines of a political conflict that has ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors. Ride the elevator with Michael Cohen, owner of Channel Islands Adventure Company. Channel Islands National Park—dubbed “The Galapagos of North ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors. Ride the elevator with David Verde, showrunner of AWOL. Have you ever grabbed the remote and noticed that outdoor/adventure travel shows are ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors. Ride the elevator with Jason Epperson, Producer/Host of America's National Parks Podcast. The America's National Parks Podcast tells the story ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors. Ride the elevator with Gemma Peckham, founder of ROVA Magazine. Have you ever noticed that all of the magazines dedicated to RVing and ...read more

Zero debris in the crystal-clear water shields the riverbed from the cobalt sky. I can see every shade of pebble beneath the flowing surface of central Idaho’s Middle Fork of the Salmon River, one of the eight inaugural rivers protected by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, ...read more

Snowboard mountaineer and Zeal Optics Ambassador Rafael Pease grinned wide in front of a full theater in Golden, Colorado, where his film "Yūgen" was shown for the first time on Thursday. The full-length film captures three years of Pease's travels in Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Chile, ...read more

According to Frank Hugelmeyer, the outdoor industry has an elitism problem. The president of the RV Industry Association—and former CEO of Outdoor Industry Association (OIA)—believes that both groups need to relax how they define themselves, because the outdoor and RV worlds are ...read more

I grip the rail, jostle in my seat, and squint my eyes as the air whips my hair around. The ocean’s teal-toned abyss in front of our saltwater flat boat is eerily vacant—at least, above the water. We are west of Great Abaco, one of 700 islands in The Bahamas, in the saltwater ...read more

"Do you have a boat?” Eric “Hende” Henderson asks me. He’s the owner and founder of Meteorite PR, and the mastermind behind what seems at first blush like a hare-brained idea: packraft to OR.  I shake my head. He reaches inside the doorway of evo, a Denver retail shop providing ...read more

Hiking is fun until it's not. And it's usually not when you have a massive blister bubbling under your big toe or your backpack rubs the skin on your hips and shoulders raw. None of these are immediately life threatening—unless you don't treat some of them in time—but they're a ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors. Ride the elevator with Tim Nickles, founder and CEO of Roofnest. Roofnest started on a road trip to Moab with a big group of friends getting ...read more

There is such thing as overtourism and it's leaving countries in worse shape than before tourists invaded. Adventure Travel Trade Association President Shannon Stowell starts off his TEDx Talk grim, with stories that challenge the common assumption that mass tourism generates ...read more

Most dinner party hosts worry about napkins, awkward relationships, or overcooked chicken. But Neil Laughton was more concerned with making sure his guests didn’t freeze to death. On April 29, after a 3-week trek to Mt. Everest’s North Col— 23,031 feet up—Laughton's team of ...read more

Upon crawling out the woods after hiking many miles, you can't bear to crack open another bag of trail mix or freeze-dried rice and beans. You'd much rather replenish your calories with a hot meal that doesn't require mixing with water boiled over your camp stove. We've rounded ...read more