Outdoor Japan Magazine

After a heavy powder season, the snowpacked mountains have fed Japan’s rivers with fast-flowing rapids for some great w...

In the year 1914, a lone man in a cabin in the woods—literally, a tiny shack in the Dalarna backcountry—sewed up a bunch of backp...

There was a time, several decades ago, when the humpback whales stopped coming to Okinawa. Today, hundreds return each winter, an...

The Upper Mustang District in Western Nepal is on the radar of most adventure travelers. However, due to high permit costs and th...

Sage shio no tsugi wa, age shio ja… A rising tide always follows an ebbing one… During the always-too-short summer holidays, my p...

When and how did you first come to Japan?After studying Japanese for six years in New Zealand (five in high school and one in...

Stuff you gotta have... (Don’t) Break a leg!Sorel Caribou Boots Don’t miss out on the ski season because you wore the wrong boo...

My name is Bose. At least that is what my dad always calls me, so it must be my name. When he is angry with me, he will yell, “Bo...

NEW RELEASE Teton Gravity Research presents LOST AND FOUND The new DVD from Teton tells the story of the 2007 season as seen thro...