For all of the tragedy that the COVID-19 pandemic brought, it also sprouted some impactful things. For Asia Bright, that includes a new appreciation for the outdoors. “I’ve always been an outdoor ...

If someone told me that I would become the type of person who would go snowshoeing in rural Japan to see the mountains, I would have laughed. Yet there I was, my boots dragging through the layers of ...

It is 8:55 on a beautiful, sun-dappled Tuesday morning in Southwest Atlanta. In the hush of morning light, a group of Black women — ranging from their 50s to their 80s — gather in a circle to stretch, ...

SUNY Cortland student Sherron Brown was an adult when she first hiked Buttermilk Falls State Park in Ithaca, N.Y., and Taughannock Falls State Park near Trumansburg, N.Y. Those experiences drastically ...

When Nasrieen Habib launched a hiking group for Muslim women in 2022, she didn’t know if anyone would show up. Nine women responded to her initial social media post. “And we have never stopped since,” ...