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In response to Adventure Journal’s recent piece today glorifying John Muir we decided to offer up our feminist analysis of the racist asshat. We want to acknowledge and give deep gratitude to Jolie Varela of Indigenous Women Hike (IWH) who catalyzed conversations throughout the outdoor industry about the truth

Photo by Tommy Lisbin Among the cancellations of major events like South by Southwest, Coachella, and various summits, conferences, and concerts, Flash Foxy followed suit by cancelling their massively popular and sold-out Women’s Climbing Festival (WCF) that takes place every March in Payahüünadü (the Nümüü word for “place

Feature photo by Jessica Felicio The Coronavirus pandemic seems to be having the same effect on the mainstream consciousness as did Trump rising to power. When Trump got elected, many folks -- as in mostly white people -- “woke up” in shock to the fact that our country is *this* racist and

“To learn and know this history is both a necessity and a responsibility to the ancestors and descendants of all parties.” -- Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz on the true history of what has happened to the great civilizations of the Western Hemisphere in her book An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United

Cover art by Whitney Sparks As a black woman of Turtle Island I am asking EVERYONE to STOP speaking of “Decolonization” without explicitly naming and confronting Anti-blackness. Anti-blackness is deeply, unshakably inherent to colonization — as much as land theft, rape, genocide, white supremacy, hierarchy. “In a racist society

The American Alpine Club’s Craggin’ Classics Have a History of Being Exclusive, Exploitative, and Tokenizing of Black and Indigenous Organizations, but Chris Schulte Reports Back That They Are Doing “Pretty Good.” White people have historically anointed themselves as the “keepers of nature” from John Muir to Theodore Roosevelt to