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Trust Your Friends' Outlandish Voicemail Ideas

Sometimes you get those random voicemails that kinda go like, “Hey bud, so, I was sitting here thinking about something cool we could do and I think I figured it out....

Bikepacking Scotland's Land of the Almost Midnight Sun

Despite the restrictions to travel between the US and the UK being enough to make ones head explode: a negative test to fly, a personal locator form complete with evid...

Three T's: The Tahoe Twirl

Today, peering out through the thick air, into the trees and the claustrophobic smokey haze beyond, I keep thinking how lucky I was this time a little over a year ago,...

Homegrown Adventure

Photo by Tommy Danger: Family camp weekend begins just a short distance from home. For most of my adult life, I have been able to travel and adventure all over the wor...

Continental Divide Trail Coalition: Priorities for Summer 2021

For this upcoming season CDTC’s main goal is to complete the Optimal Location Review (OLR). This will inform the direction of the reroute moving forward and is a collaborative effort with Federal and State agencies partners.

Outside Our Own Front Door

Photo by: Aedan O’Donnell. Krystle Wright prepares dinner at the back of her SUV. As an adventure photographer, I’ve spent the majority of the past 10 years constantl...

How It All Started

This year, Big Agnes is celebrating its 20-year anniversary, or as we like to say #20yearsinthedirt.  Founded by Bill Gamber back in 2001 and based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Big Agnes has grown into a successful, sustainability-focused, global leader in the outdoor industry.

Think Globally, Act Locally

Justin Reiter – BA Ambassador and Steward of the Land Public lands are like family and for me, they play those same archetypal roles. From the wise grandparents that e...

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Tent

Sometimes things don’t go according to plan. After our 2022 Bob Swanson Memorial Exploration Grant winner Jean Marie Gossard was called on to fight wildfires for this summer, she chose to give up her nomination and 7,000 mile thru-hike on the Great Western Loop.

The Story Behind the Story

How do you share your adventure stories with friends? Blogs, social media, good old fashioned around-the-campfire storytelling? When our friend Patrice La Vigne wrote and published her first travel memoir, Between Each Step: A Married Couple’s Thru Hike on New Zealand’s Te Araroa, we knew we had to get the story behind the story.

Love in the Backcountry

Little did we know, our wedding would be the last event many of our friends would attend before a year of social distancing kept us from our usual recreation schedule. Being quarantined as newlyweds for all those months felt similar to living in our Copper Spur on the AT all over again.

2020 Gift Guide for Campers

Photo by: Gretchen Powers So, you’re looking for the perfect gift for the camper in your life? You’ve come to right spot. Big Agnes is known for super light and depend...

Bikepacking with the New Copper Spur HV UL Bikepack Tent

The Road to the Unknown We had just been dropped off with our bikes and all of our gear, the starting point of our bikepacking trip on the Idaho Hot Springs Route. My...

A Return to the Backcountry

Our group of seven converged from many different states out onto the dirt at the junction of Mineral Bottom Road and the 313 in Utah. We set out on October 10th, inten...

Big Agnes Introduces 2020 Apparel Collection with a Focus on Sustainability and Performance

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (Jan. 17, 2020) – Big Agnes, the Steamboat Springs-based outdoor brand, announces a redesign of its 2020 Apparel Collection.

Our Commitment to the Trail

You probably know that the Continental Divide Trail is close to our hearts, and geographically it’s located right in our backyard. We found ourselves recreating on the CDT through enough summers to wonder how we could help maintain it.