Author: AMC Outdoors
As told to Steve Holt, senior editor for engagement content. Edited for clarity and length. Chapter: New York–North Jersey Favorite spots to Be Outdoors: Fire Island, N.Y.; Montauk, N.Y.; Central Park, Manhattan; Riverside Park, Manhattan Next big adventure: Hawaii, Ecuador, or Panamá I grew up in Long Island. My first real taste of the outdoors […]
Attention, Storytellers! Why do you love the outdoors? AMC wants to hear your stories! Your tale could be published on the revamped outdoors.org and win some great prizes! AMC is currently seeking ideas for essays, adventure narratives, trail work successes, conservation highlights, and other outdoor content that tells AMC’s story from across our region. Professional […]
The Wilderness Society and the Avarna Group published “Public Lands in the United States,” a curriculum introducing the history of public lands in the context of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. AMC participated in the curriculum’s development and now uses it in programs and trainings. Here are several of the milestone events and policies that […]
Before Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club became the face of environmentalism in the twentieth century, Vittorio Sella and the Appalachian Mountain Club were the center of outdoor art and conservation in America. Like Adams, Sella dedicated his artistic career to landscape photography becoming renowned for his mountain landscapes. From 1893 to 1910, AMC […]
AMC is committed to increasing access to and engagement with the outdoors for all people. That requires grappling with the hard truth that the outdoors has often not been a safe space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)—a history that has deeply affected the relationship between these communities and the land today. Many predominately white outdoors and conservation organizations, […]
You know how, when you hear people talk about food, you get hungry? You start to salivate, maybe your stomach begins to growl, and your attention wanders from whatever you’re doing to your next fantasy meal. That’s exactly what happened to this magazine’s editorial team when we dug into the pages of Real Trail Meals, […]
The Alpine Club of Williamstown Professor Albert Hopkins of Williams College did not climb with the same spring in his step that he once had. But at the age of 57, he could still hold his own on the trail as he led seventeen young men and women up Mount Greylock, which loomed above them […]