Between massively popular adventure documentaries like The Dawn Wall and Free Solo, the proliferation of climbing gyms across the country, and the official addition of climbing to this summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo, rock climbing — specifically ...
North Carolina Blue Catfish Breaks State Record by 5 Pounds
Rocky Baker's electronic fish scale is rated to 110 pounds. When the screen said "overloaded" before he was even able to hoist the behemoth blue catfish off the bottom of the boat, his response was pretty much the same as every other angler in a ...
Tampa Bay Fish Kill: 15 Tons of Dead Marine Life… and Counting
In what seems like the new annual normal, the Gulf Coast of Florida is seeing the start of debilitating red tide. Unfortunately, Tampa Bay, an area that normally doesn't get hit too hard by red tide, has become ground zero of an absolutely ...
Montana Grizzly That Pulled Woman From Tent and Killed Her is Dead
A 65-year-old California woman was pulled from her tent in the middle of the night and mauled to death by a grizzly in Ovando, Montana. Officials reported Friday morning that they have located and killed the bear. According to The Associated ...
2020 Tokyo Games: The Free Range American Guide to the Olympics
If you’re a fan of sports that involve weapons or opening a can of whoop-ass on your opponent or are just plain hardcore, you need to tune in to the 2020 Tokyo Games. Opening ceremonies take place July 23, though the athletic competitions actually ...
WATCH: Zion National Park Buried After Flash Flood
An offseason weather event dumped more than an inch and a half of rain on Zion National Park in Utah and has tourists and locals digging out of a valley full of mud. The flash flood carried enough force to buckle roads and sidewalks and play ...
WATCH: Nothing Says America Like Crazy-Ass Wakeboarding Tricks
Fourth of July weekend is upon us, and you can bet that the entire damn country is going to be on a lake or river, in a pool, or sitting under a water sprinkler, celebrating American freedom and waiting for the fireworks to start. Cue the Zac ...
Heat Wave Fishing: Give Fish a Break When It’s Too F*cking Hot
Most of the country is pretty much feeling like a line of ants roasting under some kid’s magnifying glass. But it’s not just humans who are feeling this heat wave. Fish are, too. Extended periods of intense heat coupled with the lack of rain have ...
Free Range Q&A With Surfer, Hunter, Filmmaker, Badass Mark Healey
If you asked Captain America to pull together a list of what he does when he’s not saving the world, it would fall short of the resume of Mark Healey. Professional big-wave surfer, free diver, spearfisherman, conservationist, sky diver, ...
5 of the Best Places To Climb East of the Mississippi
When it comes to world-renowned locations to enjoy outdoor sports such as climbing, the West seems to get all the love. With that comes popularity, but with popularity comes problems. Just take a look at the shit shows that many of our national parks ...
New Highlining Record Set in Yosemite
In a national park that’s world-famous for mind-bending feats of climbing skill, two brothers and their friend might have just topped the list of bonkers adventures in Yosemite with a 2,788-foot highline walk between two cliff faces. Moises and ...
Backcountry Flyers: 6 Classic Bush Planes That Get Us Out There
Backcountry flight in a proper bush plane will make you wonder what the hell you’ve been doing with your life. From the first revolution of the propeller blade to the muffled thrum vibrating through your body as wilderness sprawls in every ...
Study Discovers This Deep-Sea Fish Lives to 100, Stays Pregnant for 5 Years
Head 500 to 800 feet into the ocean depths off the Comoro Islands near the East African coast and you might find an ancient species of fish that can grow as big as a man and live for a century. Nicknamed "the living fossil," coelacanth outlasted the ...
Sport Climbing To Make Its Olympic Debut in Tokyo
The mind-blowing, gravity-defying, superhuman athleticism of sport climbing will make its debut at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, and four of America's own are qualified to compete: Brooke Raboutou, Kyra ...
52,000 Fish Found Dead in Kansas City River
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is trying to figure out why 52,000 fish were found dead in Brush Creek just south of Kansas City. A total of 1,900 common carp, 240 silver carp, and 50,000 sunfish went belly-up throughout a ...
WATCH: Nature Is Metal
Everybody loves the pristine National Geographic documentaries that make the natural world look like an episode of Chef's Table. But if you're into all things wild and raw and you're not starting your day with a mainline shot of nature in its most ...
A Father’s Day Lesson: When the Bass Aren’t Biting
"Never curse a sunfish," my dad would say. "It could be the only thing you catch." Even as a kid, I understood the sentiment. But when I was fishing for bass, I still thought it was a ration of shit. If I couldn’t manage a largemouth, no amount of ...
Off Script: Free Range Q&A With Mark Pattison, NFL Receiver and Seven Summits Climber
In the span of 10 years, Mark Pattison has gone from the lowest point in his life to the top of the highest mountain on each of the seven continents — the Seven Summits. The former Los Angeles (now Las Vegas) Raiders and New Orleans Saints ...
Lobster Diver Grabbed, Spit Out by Whale, And Other Close Encounters
“This is how you’re going to die,” thought Michael Packàrd, a commercial lobster diver out of Provincetown, Massachusetts. "In the mouth of a whale." Packàrd guessed that he was trapped for 30 to 40 seconds before the whale spit him out in a ...
Man Overboard: What To Do When Your Fishing Guide Is a Total Asshat
I didn’t care that we had paid him for a day of fishing. He needed to go for a fucking swim and I was this close to helping his ass off the boat. There’s a bottomless well of stories that fishing guides can tell about nightmare clients. My ...
Coastal Conservation Association: Saving Florida’s Redfish and Specks
In 1977, 14 concerned anglers led by Walter Fondren gathered in a tackle shop on the Texas coast vowing to save redfish and speckled trout from being wiped out by commercial fishing. Soon after, the Texas Legislature voted the Red Drum ...
California Drought Amplifies Threat to Endangered Salmon and Steelhead
TikTok influencers aren’t the only thirsty critters in California. Thanks to the severe drought, farmers, forests, and fish are, too. This past May was the fifth-driest May and 2021, to date, is the 15th-driest year for the Golden State over the past ...
7 Best Places in the US To Go Paragliding and Hang Gliding
The human fascination with flight is rooted in mythology and curiosity. From Icarus and his wings of wax, to Alexander the Great and his griffins, to Leonardo da Vinci’s ornithopter, breaking the bonds of gravity and soaring to heights reserved for ...
Fly-Fishing-Only Tournament Raises Big Money for Striped Bass
Cape Cod normally isn’t such a tightwad with its striped bass in late May. But on this particular Saturday, the only fish it seemed to give up were sub-20 inches. Or shad. This particular Saturday happened to be the Cheeky Schoolie ...
One Long Swim: Louisiana Gator Appears on Padre Island
A young alligator from Louisiana made an unexpected appearance on a Padre Island beach in South Texas this week. The gator was about three months late for Spring Break, but you can’t blame him for trying. According to Padre Island National ...
Former NFL Wide Receiver Mark Pattison Reaches All Seven Summits
Shortly after he left Camp 4 in his final bid for the summit of Mount Everest, a shard of ice carried by high winds caught Mark Pattison in his eye. It didn't deter him. Pattison, a former NFL wide receiver drafted by the Raiders in 1985 who finished ...
5 States That Totally Blew It With Their State Fish
When it comes to the flora, fauna, landmarks, and historical items that states designate as official symbols of their heritage or identity, some make sense and some are head-scratchers. We’ve talked about multiple states claiming the same state fish ...
At Least 100 COVID-19 Cases Confirmed on Mount Everest
What started as a seemingly isolated case has turned into a significant cluster of COVID-19 cases on Mount Everest. Nepalese officials deny an outbreak on the world's highest mountain, but Lukas Furtenbach, an expert guide and head of an ...
5 Cliff-Jumping Spots That Even Influencers Hesitate To Recommend
It takes a special kind of crazy to jump from a rock cliff 100 feet into water — crazy that's even crazier than the need to appease the 20,000-headed Instagram monster. Adrenaline junkies typically flock to well-known and well-documented ...
Bonneville’s Fastest: Speed Record-Holders of the Flats
Unless you topped out on a motorcycle at 110 miles an hour at Bonneville at the age of 14, you don’t know shit about driving fast. That’s exactly what Karlee Cobb did in 2008 on the salt flats, and it put her squarely among some damn fast ...
