Charlie Wood & Casey Lyons

Paddling, hiking, testing self-arrest skills–we cover it all in these 10 epic trips throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Check off the most remote miles in California's Range of Light.

Trek empty terrain all the way from the Grand Canyon to Zion.

Test your self-arrest skills on Mt. Adams's 12,276-foot fractured glacier.

Traverse the wildest part of the lower 48's last great grizzly hideaway.

Beat your own path through Denali National Park's confounding and little-traveled Wyoming Hills.

Get vertical on a tricky class 4 route to the top of Granite Peak.

Get your feet (and more) wet on the Florida Trail's best section.

Got guts? Good. Now learn what skills you'll need to bag America's Little Everest—a traverse of New Hampshire's Presidential Range—in winter.