57hours blog

Some guides are about to level up their careers, and I’m proud to introduce who they are and how to follow along.

Are you a guide, ready to push your career forward? Apply for a 57hours scholarship and pay for AMGA/IFMGA course fees and travel expenses.

I moved to Moab from Tampa in 2017 and opened my own bike shop in 2020. These are the desert rules I wish I’d known.

Did you know only 5% of Grand Canyon visitors hike below the rim?

Professional guide courses can be very expensive, so I’m thrilled to introduce the guides our fund is sending to class.

Thousands of us hike the Appalachian Trail every year, so here are my 5 habits for leaving it better than we found it.

There’s almost always someone else on my Jackson Hole skintrack now, so here are 5 habits that keep everyone safe.

A friend of mine asked “If you like this so much, why don’t you turn it into a career?”

I sat down with Norie Kizaki to ask what it’s like to be the only one in the room, and why that has to change.

I stopped practicing civil rights law, but the fight didn’t stop; it moved to the trails porters carry us up.

Two promises we’re making to the people and places behind every adventure: train more guides, protect more wild land.

I once believed safaris were harmless, until years inside tourism showed me what happens when the cameras stop.

Colorado’s backcountry is getting crowded, so here’s the frank etiquette talk we wish every skier would have.

I love my mountain-town trails, but they’re being loved to death, and towns are finally fighting back.

95% of Indian Creek climbers parachute in from far away, and I was one of them. Fourteen years on, I listen.

Cancelled trips, quiet lodges, and a surprising boom in local touring: this is what COVID did to guiding, as I saw it.

In May 2020, 92% of the guides we surveyed had been out of work for months. A year later, we asked how they were doing.

Learn how to lower your risk and make smarter decisions while backcountry skiing with pro tips from an AMGA/IFMGA Mountain Guide.

On a trad route there’s no line of bread crumbs to follow. For me, that’s exactly the allure.

I compare snowkiting to learning an instrument: tune your gear, your technique, and the wind, then ride.

Consider this Backcountry Skiing 101 — a crash course in backcountry basics to help you carve your first lines on deep, untracked powder.

If you want to climb like a local in Red Rock, here are the seven climbing etiquette tips you need to know before you go. 

After almost 30 years of polar exploration, I thought I’d seen it all. Here’s what it takes to become a polar explorer.

Waist-deep water and steady wind make New York a great place to kite, and I’ve found where.

The 57hours and First Descents partnership makes outdoor adventuring more accessible for FD alumni impacted by serious health conditions.

A route name can make you feel unwelcome before you leave the ground. We asked climbers and guides how often it happens.

I’m an emission-free adventurer, and this is how keeping adventures local can give you less impact and more fun.

Most guides we surveyed in 2020 had already lost 75 to 100% of their guiding income. Here’s what they told us.

We all have enough stuff. We don’t all have enough adventure. Give someone a guided trip instead.

Sometimes, even guides need guides. Ski guide Greg Hill makes a case for hiring a backcountry guide in unfamiliar territory.

Winter camping isn’t miserable if your gear is right. I’d bring a pad rated R4.0 and a 700-fill jacket.