Click to listen on your favorite podcast app! When British explorer George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Everest, he famously replied, “Because it’s there.” But what if the real answer is simpler and potentially more beautiful? Today on Open Container , Doug  explores the deeper meaning behind Kilian Jornet’s “States of Elevation” project , a 3,200-mile, human-powered journey linking all 72 fourteeners in the lower 48 states . Jornet ran, climbed, and biked his way

Click to listen on your favorite podcast app! What happens when you build trails that everyone  can ride? In this episode of Open Container , host Doug Schnitzspahn  talks with Berne Broudy , writer, filmmaker, and director of Best Day Ever , and Greg Durso , adaptive athlete and Senior Program Director at the Kelly Brush Foundation . Together, they share the story behind Best Day Ever, a film and movement that began when a few friends realized their local trails weren’t acce

We go to the outdoors to find healing, to find resilience. But how resilient is the natural world on its own? I often think of Gerard...

Click to listen on your favorite podcast app! Welcome to Open Container, where we unpack the most urgent issues facing the outdoor...

Can time in the mountains make you a better person? I think about this question often. My time in wild places—on peaks, in the beautiful...

Click to listen on your favorite podcast app! Welcome to Open Container, where today we're discussing one of the defining features of the...

Click to listen on your favorite podcast app!  In this episode of Open Container , host Doug Schnitzspahn  is joined by Jordan Campbell...

Click to listen on your favorite podcast app! The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is once again under threat. Politicians and oil...

Click to listen on your favorite podcast app! The American South is often overlooked in outdoor conversations but it holds some of the...

When we started the Open Container podcast, we had a clear plan. We wanted to show that the outdoors isn’t just a niche, that it’s part...

Click to listen on your favorite podcast app! Today we open the container with Gear Abby herself, outdoor journalist and author, Shawnté...

Click to listen on your favorite podcast app! Today we open the container with Arkansas' first Director of Office of Outdoor Recreation,...

All too often, I find myself saying that as an environmentalist, a conservationist, and someone who cares about the planet and the...

Click to listen on your favorite podcast app! Doug begins today's episode with an exploration of the profound cultural shift from...

If you’re in the outdoor industry, you’re a dirtbag. And that’s something to be proud of. It means your primary drive is being outside:...

Click to listen on your favorite podcast app! Today Doug opens the container with Greg Williams. Doug begins the show by embracing...

Explaining why he wrote Walden , why he walked away from society to live in a cabin by that now-infamous pond, Henry David Thoreau wrote:...

Click to listen on your favorite podcast app! Today Doug opens the container with Ian Yolles. Doug begins the show by invoking the spirit...

I barely got to know my grandfather, but the strongest memories I have of him are of his smile, and of days that seem like dreams, on the...

When we talk about roads, especially in our forests and on public lands, one thing is clear: we have a lot of them. Probably more than we...