Shannon Davis is a writer, editor, and producer from Lyons, Colorado. He has also worked as editor-in-chief of Climbing magazine and senior editor at Backpacker magazine and eaten cheeseburgers in all 50 states.
She cradles a plastic bottle in her hands like it’s a precious living thing. Her gloved hand turns the bottle over so she can inspect it. Then, with lightning precision her other hand raises a set of clippers, and she removes the colored plastic ring from the bottle’s neck. With ...read more
Uganda is an east African country just a bit smaller than Oregon, and odds are you didn’t think of it the last time you geared up for a hike. That’s about to change. More than a million refugees have crossed the border into Uganda. Most are Sudanese and Congolese, and their ...read more
An icy wind whipped fresh snow into mini tornados in the narrow alleyways of a Golden, Colorado, storage facility, and Bruce Gordon dropped a box of product samples into the slush under his rented box truck. He looked over at his business partner Zach Branson and said, “There’s ...read more
