American Classic: Every good road trip ends up with a group shot in Yellowstone. Photo: Chris Schuhmann

Chutzpah Camp

by Charles Bethea June 2, 2011

When an adventurer decides to spend his summer teaching a busload of kids at Jewish Adventure Camp about the outdoors, he gets a lesson in real faith.

Crazy, Mixed-Up Mountain Love

by Charles Bethea August 5, 2009

What happens when a hard-charging mountain girl who spends spare moments training for triathlons meets a laid-back, cruiser-riding East Coast transplant who likes to bake bread? He Said… I arrived at the small adobe apartment we were to share—two ambitious, 23-year-old strangers from opposite ends of the country who’d landed the same outdoors magazine internship [...]

Ducky Pride

by Charles Bethea April 6, 2009

I now realize that my magazine writing career began in 2004, with a ducky boat race down the Arkansas River. I was a clueless, if enthusiastic, 22-year-old intern at Hooked on the Outdoors. The Colorado-based magazine—which unfortunately folded, before so many others, in May of 2006—wasn’t able to pay me much of anything for my [...]