A man who shot a federal ranger inside Rocky Mountain National Park is in custody and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, according to the FBI. Daron Marquel Ellis, 29, was arrested at a hospital in Loveland, Colorado, by FBI Special Agent ...
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Reader’s Choice: The 10 Biggest Free Range American Stories of 2021
This was a good year for Free Range American. We grew by hundreds of percentage points in every conceivable metric and covered a wide range of topics (and controversies) other outdoor media sites were afraid to touch. We broke the news on an ...
Son’s Quick Thinking, CPR Training Saves Father’s Life on Michigan Hunt
If you were hunting with a buddy or family member and they had a bad fall or lost consciousness and stopped breathing, would you know how to render first aid? Do you have CPR training, and if so, could you stay calm and stabilize a hunting partner in ...
Burnover: Shocking Video Reveals Daring Hellscape Drive
For at least 109 seconds, the night turned orange as a towering blaze closed over the firefighters. Captured in a video shot Sept. 10 from inside the cab of a truck, at least two men can be heard screaming obscenities, shouting directions, ...
Two Hikers, Ages 83 and 5, Make Appalachian Trail History
The Appalachian National Scenic Trail was established in 1937. That’s just one year before M.J. Eberhart was born, and the 83-year-old just hiked his way into Appalachian Trail history. On November 6, 2021, he completed the trail’s roughly 2,200 ...
New Documentary Chronicles Insane Mountain Climbing Record Quest
Climbing the 14 highest peaks in the world is an accomplishment very few mountaineers have achieved. Only 44 highly motivated souls, to be exact, have done it. Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja, a Nepalese mountaineer and former British army soldier, is the ...
Wilderness First Aid: The Backcountry Medkit Every Hunter Should Carry
Backcountry hunters obsess over dialing in their gear. There’s ultralight gore-tex this and treated down that. But there’s one piece of gear to which many hunters don’t pay enough attention: wilderness first aid and the medkit they carry. Jimmy ...
Dumb-Ass Tourists: Methheads, Turds, Golfballs, and Baseballs
US National Parks welcomed 237 million visitors into their 423 national gems last year, and 168 million people trekked into the wilds of our national forests. Hundreds of thousands more laced up their trail shoes to recreate in the great outdoors at ...
Surfing in Bali: Brazilian Puts Down Killer Minute-Plus Run on Bombie
When it comes to surfing in Bali, professional surfer Bruno Santos experienced the closest thing to transcendence that a wave rider can get when he dropped into an empty lineup on Bombie and carved the cliff face of a seemingly neverending wave for ...
‘The Alpinist’ Should Be the Next Climbing Documentary You Watch
The Alpinist (2021) is a new and riveting documentary about the extraordinary life of Canadian climber Marc-André Leclerc. This climbing documentary chronicles Lelerc’s remarkable transition from living in a stairwell with girlfriend Brette ...
Watch: Crazy Ultramarathon Blizzard Rescue Captured on Video
Hundreds of trail runners struck out to tackle the DC Peaks 50 Ultramarathon in Utah. The off-road faithful knew they had 12,000 feet of climbing ahead of them, but none of them expected to be pulled from the trail during a crushing blizzard just ...
Navy Veteran Finds Peace Through Motorcycles, Photography
When you’re cruising at 80 miles an hour on a custom-built chopper, everything becomes quiet, and it feels like flying. For Liam Kennedy, it’s when he finally finds himself free from insecurities and past missteps and finds a balance between self and ...
Naked And Afraid: What I’ve Learned From Survival Shows
We have all been guilty of being backseat adventurers when watching programs such as Naked and Afraid, Man vs. Wild or Alone, just to name a few. We kick back, crack open a cold one and proceed to judge the ever-loving shit out of ...
National Park Murders: Hundreds Killed, Missing – No One Is Talking
The tragic Gabby Petito story sparked some controversy and got a lot of attention the past few weeks, though you can’t be blamed for letting it fall off your radar with how fast news cycles move. The internet churned up plenty of conspiracy theories ...
Planning a Big, Badass Outdoor Trip – Adventure 101
My husband Caleb and I recently completed our first real big, badass outdoor trip. We were gone for a month, backpacked 75 miles, and drove 3,500 miles. Through it all, we saw and experienced things unlike anything we could have imagined, but it ...
Making a Hiking Road Trip Food Plan – Adventure 101
After you have written a trip itinerary, but before you pack up your gear and take care of last-minute things, you need to think about food. Planning a long outdoor adventure requires a lot of food, which means you need a hiking trip food plan. ...
How to Pack for a Big Outdoor Trip – Adventure 101
There is a necessary list of gear that you need to pack for every outdoor trip, and the specifics of that list change depending on what you plan to do. Since you have already written your itinerary and planned your food, you might be getting ...
The Importance of Mental and Physical Fitness Prep – Adventure 101
Tending to mental and physical fitness before leaving for an adventure is equally as important as planning, preparing food, and packing the gear, but it's something many people often overlook. One of the things I did this summer on the 30-day ...
Intense Photos From the West’s 5 Most Extreme 2021 Wildfires
Blistering hot, prodded by high winds, and feeding greedily on a tinder-dry landscape, the 2021 wildfires continue to devour the West just as the previous year's fires did. The fact is, there's nothing that can stop the fire from racing through the ...
War, Van Life, and Journalism: The Many Adventures of Marty Skovlund Jr.
As a member of the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment, Marty Skovlund Jr. completed five combat deployments. But the only time he ever got shot was in basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia. It was a hot July afternoon on the range, and as he ...
Peak-Bagging in the US: Getting Climbers High Since 1876
On any given day during the climbing season, in every region home to the towering glacial remains of the past 250 to 700 millennia, the faithful commence with their peak-bagging pilgrimages to the highest points possible. Guided by a bit of ...
Goonies Never Say Die: The Hunt for Sunken Treasure
The waves crest and crash against the Spanish treasure fleet off the coast of Cartagena, Columbia. It is 1708, during the War of Spanish Succession. The fleet is 17 ships strong, consisting of three Spanish warships and 14 merchant vessels. The ...
5 Ways To Avoid a Grizzly Bear Attack and How To Survive One
The sun warms your shoulders as you adjust your pack and make your way down a path strewn with pine needles. It’s only a bit wider than a well-used game trail, perfect for a solitary hike through the backcountry. As you crest the ridge, ready to rest ...
Zara Rutherford, 19, Is Flying Solo Around the World Right Now
Zara Rutherford, 19, is currently on a quest to fly around the world all on her own. She's traveling a wide course that she began in August and plans to complete by early November. The incredible journey will see Rutherford fly over five continents ...
How To Survive The Aussie Outback When Everything Is Out To Kill You
Running free through my grandfather’s sugarcane fields and pedaling bikes through the rugged Aussie outback defined my Australian childhood. Then there were the car rides across dusty backroads, where petrol (gas) stations were a rarity—as was the ...
Navy SEAL, Marine Raider Vets Do 5-Mile Ocean Floor Rock Run
Two special operations veterans accomplished the audacious aquatic feat of carrying a 45-pound rock across the ocean floor for 5 miles. Navy SEAL veteran Kaj Larsen and Marine Raider veteran Don Tran are not the first to run with a rock ...
WATCH: First Video of Giant Tortoise Killing and Slowly Eating Prey
Slow-motion cinematography has revolutionized how we view everything from action sports, and social unrest to gender reveal parties and porn. But this video of a giant tortoise hunting, killing, and eating a bird might be the best use of slo-mo ...
Watch: Instructor Pulls Knocked-Out Skydiver’s Chute in Wild Rescue
Remember that part in Point Break when Johnny Utah pulls the ripcord on Bodie's parachute as they plummet toward the terra at terminal velocity? The video below shows something similar happening in real life, only it isn't due to a display of ...
First Woman to Solo Hike Appalachian Trail was an All-American Badass
Thousands of hikers have sojourned to Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio every January since 1967 to honor the hiking legacy of Emma "Grandma" Gatewood. She was a poet, mother to 11 children, and a survivor of domestic abuse. She was also the first ...
The World Is on Fire: 104 Wildfires So Far in the US, More Across the Globe
More than 100 wildfires have burned a total of 2,428,387 acres in the US as of this week, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Persistent fire-stoking weather conditions continue to feed the flames in 13 states, including Washington, ...
