Climbing Gifts She’ll Love this Season
This season's hottest climbing gifts for women. Find the perfect gift for the lady climber on your list.
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The Dirtbag’s Guide to Thanksgiving
Not everyone likes to sit around a table, have a traditional meal and stay indoors during the Thanksgiving holiday. There are a select few who indulge a little differently during the holidays. So how does a dirtbag celebrate Thanksgiving? Here…
7 Vanlife Athletes You Should Know About
Vanlife is more popular than ever. What was once a community of musicians, retirees, and hippies, has grown into a thriving community of people from all different walks of life. In this article, we have seven athletes who have taken…
Tape Glove Techniques for Beginners
It’s Creek season everyone! Indian Creek: The birthplace of realizing it is somehow more fun to sandpaper your hands to bloody stumps than it is to crank hard on crimps. Indian Creek is a trad climbing paradise where the gear…
Back to School with Careers in Outdoor Education
A real-world look at what it's like to work in outdoor education from our esteemed panel of outdoor professionals.
Ridgway Adventure Sports – More Than Your Average Retail Shop
If you are an Outdoor Professional with access to pro deals, you should be sending the clients you work with and people who ask for your recommendations to local retail stores in your area. Here’s why. “Bikes and Skis. Bikes…
Why We Need More Female Climbing Mentors
Climbing is one of the only sports where mentorship is a key element of success. We all show up at more or less the same level; awkwardly wandering up to the crag or climbing gym with an ill-fitting harness and…
Amazing Eco-Friendly Gear We are Excited About
Outdoor Retailer is the place to be to find the latest and greatest in outdoor gear technology. This year, we were focused on eco-friendly products that make hiking, climbing, backpacking, and getting outside less impactful than ever before. We crawled…
For the Next Generation of Adventurers
I’ve always loved following the creek as far as it would take me as a child, but my true connection with nature didn’t surface until I moved to Colorado. The aggressive crags, unexplored valleys, and thousands of miles of hiking…
6 Amazing Dirtbag Summer Getaways for the Outdoor Lover
Summer is a conflicting time for us dirtbags. On the one hand, the warmer weather brings more access to the spaces we covet the most. However, it also means that summer vacations are in full swing and national parks become…