Outdoor Writers Association of California proudly honors winners of its 2025 Pat Vachini Writing & Photography Contest.
Outdoor Writers Association of California invites California high school juniors and seniors to enter the sixth annual Pat Vachini Outdoor Writing & Photography Contest.
Three cheers for wolves, sea otters, beavers and the Klamath River. Wildlife comebacks and conservation successes highlighted California’s outdoor news in 2024.
A climb of Washington Column proved there will always be mountain-sized room for improvement for those who would test themselves in outdoor places like Yosemite.
Trekking along the top of the Sierra Nevada mountains challenges hikers every summer. This snow-covered range provides a far greater challenge for skilled mountaineers in winter. But 2023 will go down in history as the year summer and winter combined for the hardy few in the Range of Light.
Climbing Yosemite’s El Capitan fulfills the lifelong dreams of many; triumphant shouts echo from the mountaintop often during the climbing season. But not everyone who attempts the 3,000-foot granite monolith succeeds, and some who do grapple with mountain-sized adversity along the way
Explore a spectacular new hiking route from Yosemite to Mount Whitney, learn to find your own food in the mountains, or join a cyclist on the ride of a lifetime from Lake Tahoe into Mexico. These rewarding adventures are possible through three new books by four inspiring authors.
2022 saw the pandemic recede, wildfires decrease and outdoor recreation dramatically improve as a result. Here are some positive outdoor stories you may have missed.
A visit to Austria’s Tyrol region broadened my horizons in more ways than one. Though I had passed through these mountains before, my college-age summer of backpacking between youth hostels had faded in memory. When I returned to Tyrol, Austrians reminded me that one must also branch out sometime.
As Minden sounded its siren at noon on May 28, a group of more than 50 Washoe and their allies shouted together in response, “Stop the siren!” Their defiant cry and a formidable eight-mile group run followed an hour-long protest of the Nevada town’s daily siren blasts.
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