A Love Letter to Salt Lake City

Dear Salt Lake City, Thank you. Thank you for generously hosting Outdoor Retailer Summer and Winter Market for the past 22 years. Thank you for your overwhelming kindness and generosity. Thank you for putting up with our hoards of outdoor geeks in our trucker hats...
Summits in Salt Lake City, Outdoor Retailer, Menasha Ridge Press

Summits to Bag in Salt Lake City

The Wasatch Mountains tower over Salt Lake City, beckoning those of us who attend Outdoor Retailer to come hike and ski for the past two decades. They’re rugged and spectacular and offer a reprieve from the busyness that exists inside Salt Palace. With this being...

Traveling with the #YourLead Van

Fasten your seatbelt, our sister company Wilderness Press is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime! We are jumping onto the vanwagon (see what we did there?), joining outdoor gear company Teton Sports as they rendezvous with like-minded outdoorsy types around the US and Canada. Here are the down-and-dirty...

Volunteer Vacation

We all love vacations. We work long hours to earn those few precious days of freedom with family and friends. I personally love to grab my pack and hit the trail the moment I can, preferably to a state or national park with no cell...

Hiker Dude

Just Passin’ Thru author Winton Porter was just passin’ thru himself when he breezed into Greenville, South Carolina, recently to debut his first book (Menasha Ridge Press, Fall 2009). But unlike a debutante, Winton sported Chaco’s Z/2 Vibram Unaweep sandals, forest-green brushed-denim jeans, and a...