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The Mt. Baker Legendary Banked Slalom is the country’s longest-running snowboard comp, having started in 1985 as a flowy ride through a naturally-formed halfpipe that snakes down the White Salmon side of the mountain. Today, the pioneering snowboarding event is also one of the last in which pros compete alongside amateurs.

In early February, pro cyclist Tim Johnson became the first person to pedal to the top of New Hampshire’s 6,288-foot high Mount Washington in the dead of winter.

Liam Doran, one of the country’s best ski photographers, takes better photos than you. Here's how.

�����ԹϺ��� filmmakers Taylor Rees and Renan Ozturk thought it would be a mellow working vacation: they’d capture footage of four young Brits as they traversed 250 miles of Iceland’s fissured terrain, starting in December.

>Today, the White House created three new national monuments in the California desert, adding nearly 1.8 million acres to one of the largest and most pristine swaths of protected land in the Lower 48.

In Search of a Moment is a short film from photographer David Fontneau about his journey to become a photographer. Fontneau says he was drawn to photography because he found himself constantly searching for the “purity of the moment,” which took him to quite a few…

Our best travel and adventure photography of the year.

Affordable new camera traps allow you to easily, and surreptitiously, photograph local wildlife

Last week, 260 racers lined up to compete in Crested Butte’s inaugural Fat Bike World Championships.

It’s time to stop thinking of winter as the off-season.

It's not all perfect views and heavy saturation—but it comes close

We asked photographer Jesse Burke, whose new book showcases a series of road trips with his young daughter

The trick to scoring dreamy conditions and jealousy-inducing powder footage? Don’t plan ahead, and know how to fake it when the conditions aren't that dreamy.

Pro climber Tommy Caldwell is living the dream with his family in Estes Park, Colorado

We teamed up with Instagram to determine the most-photographed national parks of 2015. Here we present our favorite images from the 25 parks that appear most frequently in your photo feed.

While most of us were waiting in airport security and Thanksgiving traffic, a couple hundred climbers were heading south to Indian Creek, Utah. The Creek, 40 miles south of Moab, is a crack-climbing mecca, chock-full of legendary routes for those willing to suffer.

The 21-year-old stumbled on photography just a few years ago through his mom’s 1990’s DSLR. Since then, he’s developed a speciality in capturing simplistic, outdoor scenes around much of the American South.

This fall, world-renowned ultrarunners Mike Wolfe and Mike Foote partnered with photographer Steven Gnam to run across some of the highest, wildest mountain ranges in the Lower 48, with as little gear as they could get away with.

Once a year, Johannesburg-based Wilderness Safaris organizes its Tour de Tuli, a 300-kilometer (186-mile), four-day MTB ride through the Tuli Block of southern Africa, connecting Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

Our editors played hooky for a day to take advantage of last week's 29-inch dump on Santa Fe, New Mexico

Jonny Armstrong is a portrait photographer, but he’s never met any of his subjects. He sets hidden cameras that are triggered by motion sensors and captures candid, amazing portraits of wildlife.

Wildfires of unprecedented size have been burning through the lush forests of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia since August.

When an airline bag packed with ski stuff goes unclaimed, it ends up at a warehouse in Alabama. Once a year, that gear goes on sale in the world’s biggest winter-goods orgy. We sent a photographer to document the chaos.

At 45, Franc is one of the few cliff divers in the world to enter the water headfirst.

Imagine a river with steep, big water rapids like the Stikine in British Columbia running through deep-walled canyons like the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It’s understandably hard to visualize, but these pictures of Kyrgyzstan’s Sary-Jaz River should help.

If a skier hucks without uploading a photo, does anybody see it? A road trip through the exploding business side of Instagram, where pro athletes roam Alberta stalking the next big trophy shot.

Well yeah, we're convinced.

Be thoughtful, don't go at it alone, and do it all

Last Saturday, I lined up with �����ԹϺ��� online editor Scott Rosenfield and 369 other riders for Giro’s inaugural, a 60-mile race-ride hybrid in the mountains above the tiny logging town of Quincy, California (population 1,728).

Simone Anne soloed all 220 miles of the trail in a month, capturing her favorite moments along the way and posting them to her feed.

Every year we ask our Instagram followers to share the best shots of their number one adventure buddy.

We asked photographer Jeff Clark, who travels around in his customized Sprinter, to document a few of the best rigs and personalities he came across while spending the summer on the California highways.

Significantly more performance than a GoPro, but significantly less expensive than other pro-quality setups

The spearfisher is a case study in how to turn your Instagram account into a shot at an idyllic life of travel and exploration

Nearly 30 years ago, Jimmy Nelson set it upon himself to document that last of the world's ancient tribes and peoples with his 50-year-old 4x5 film camera.

The company's new app makes sharing footage to social easier than ever

The badass photographer, skier, and environmentalist rails against wastefulness in the adventure industry—and her own hypocrisy

Michal Huniewicz is a UK software developer with a knack for photography and a penchant for visiting places most tourists wouldn’t touch. The Saharan country of Mauritania certainly qualifies as one such place.

When it comes to ease of use and video quality, the new UAV can't be beat

An opportunity for a digital up-close encounter, to mark a great conservation achievement

For gear companies looking to tell "real" stories through their marketing campaigns, there's really only one photographer to call: Emily Maye

That's an astonishingly high number. What exactly does it mean?

There is an Arctic glimmer in the eyes of many nations around the world right now. There is no turning back—the Arctic is about to get a lot busier and a lot warmer. And it’s nearly untouched beauty is at risk of being lost forever.

Now that you can actually shoot decent photos on your phone, it's time for a best-of-the-best battle

Google's virtual climbing projects are getting most of the press, but Mammut beat them to the punch—by nearly a year

Photojournalist Max Whittaker takes you right to the fire line.

The best backpacks and organizers for your GoPro-centric life

We give the big outdoor brands a lot of love at OR—and for good reason. This year, however, we also wanted to highlight the little guys.

As children, if not as adults, we all dreamed of having a tree house. Well, it’s never too late to fulfill that dream. If you don’t know where to start, you can find inspiration in these two coffee table books from publishers Dom and Taschen. These beautiful and simple designs are sure to get you making sketches of your own.

Lowepro just made the new go-to adventure photo pack that features four-season protection and enough storage for a pro camera setup

The winners of the The World at Night's annual photo contest. Whoa!

The strategy: Stick with it, shoot what you love, and stay on the move

Riding from Durango to Moab on a mountain bike isn't easy: you cover around 215-miles, climbing 3,500 feet a day, some of it probably during a lightning storm or through thick mud, with temperatures ranging from forty to 115 degrees and plenty of route-finding involved.

The most valuable currency in gear marketing of the past 40 years.

Bushwhacking, pack rafts, and a historic float down one of the world's most beautiful wildernesses.

Some our favorite images from this year's Tour de France stages in the French Alps.

With crash-filled stages, an American competing for the podium, and an astonishingly dominant performance by Chris Froome of Team Sky on Tuesday, it’s been an exciting start to the 2015 Tour de France. These images do the action justice.

Photographer Josh Hydeman has made it his mission to illuminate America's caves and spark interest in what lies beneath.

With enough bolts and webbing for eight new lines loaded into the Volkswagen, they headed south across the border.

With petroleum as his paint, English photographer Simon Norfolk took to Africa’s second highest peak, Mount Kenya, to outline the mountains’ vanishing Lewis Glacier.

Andy Casagrande saw his first shark on TV when he was a kid growing up in New York City, and it immediately captivated him.

By this summer, Long Island, New York, photographer Eric Meola will have logged more than 100 days and perhaps as many as 25,000 miles in the Great Plains over the past three years.

The next installment of Street View comes to the 3,000 vertical feet of Yosemite's El Capitan.

Beginning this June 16, six dancers and a nine-person support crew headed into Yosemite’s wilderness for ten days of hiking and pirouetting.

With two 1970’s VW camper vans filled with supplies and pro mountain bike riders, Camilla Rutherford set out for two weeks of shredding and shooting the world’s most beautiful playground.

The untouched sections of forest, orca whales, salmon runs, and curling waves inspired Jeremy Koreski's latest project, This is Nowhere, a collection of photographs in which he reminds us that beauty exists in places we can’t easily see or access, and that it’s worth saving.

Chris Burkard, Corey Rich, and Jimmy Chin share their trade secrets on capturing great photos, plus the gear they won’t leave home without

Most adventure photographers have an enviable travel schedule, and San Francisco–based Emily Polar is no exception.

Bushwhacking, pack rafts, and a historic float down one of the world's most beautiful wildernesses.

Few vehicles embody the idea that we can be both adventurous, heading into unknown territory, and feel completely at home, wherever we go, more than the Vixen 21. Only 587 of the motorhomes were ever built, and we're given you an inside look into one of them.

For World Oceans Day 2015, the tech giant is sharing 40 new 360-degree underwater panoramas

The action-cam maker announced a new camera array to capture virtual-reality footage and its long-awaited drone, to be released in 2016. The catch: it's for pros only at the moment.

Chad Copeland, a professional photographer whose work has appeared on National Geographic Creative and in adventure campaigns around the world, had doubts about the quality of smartphone photography.

The world just feels larger there—the country, the rivers, the meals, and, most importantly, the fish.

Drop your jaws and pack your bags. �����ԹϺ���'s best adventure photography of the year.

Photographer Dave Trumpore captured the entire event, which, of course, included plenty of dirt, pisco sours, and Chilean barbeque.