Contributing editor Megan Michelson is an award-winning journalist who covers travel and the outdoors for a wide range of publications, including Outside, The New York Times, and the San Francisco ...

Daniel Hernandez is a 10th grader with striking eyes and a ready smile who is prone to answer questions with a polite “Yes, ma’am.” This young man, who is 16, used to be described as “shy,” but he ...

Most sports fans spent their summer tracking their favorite baseball teams and the Michael Vick scandal. I lived in isolation in the mountains, preoccupied with a less conventional sport: whitewater ...