Trails Magazine - Issue 14
May 2026
Data Underfoot
The volunteer GPS Rangers survey thousands of miles of trails every year, gathering the data land managers depend on.
By Angie Stevens
Trails Magazine - Hiker Box
August 3, 2026
Design the Tent You Wished You Had, with Dan Durston
In 2009, back before most companies were working with Dyneema, biologist and thru-hiker Dan Durston began building the ultralight gear he wished was on the market. Flash forward a decade and his company, Durston Gear, now makes highly-sought-after tents and gear for backpackers. Dan prides himself on his direct engagement with the community he’s created through online forums and a Durston Tents Subreddit. In a recent Q&A, Dan and Hiker Box Editor Angie Stevens talked business origin stories, completing the first yo-yo of Canada’s Great Divide Trail, and holding onto customer connections….
Q & A by Angie Stevens
Trails Magazine - Hiker Box
June 8, 2026
Making Art in the Mountains with Emma Mary Murray
Emma Mary Murray’s Issue 13 story, Stitched Together, documents the work of the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project—a combined group of scientists and writers who spend weeks in the Washington mountains every summer researching and documenting, through art, the region’s glacial recession. Murray, an illustrator and embroidery artist (find her work as far back as the Cartograph of Issue 1), chatted with Hiker Box Editor Angie Stevens about her work, the project, the North Cascades, and the role art has in documenting them…
Q & A by Angie Stevens
Trails Magazine - Hiker Box
April 27, 2026
Behind the Story: Hiking Through Our Geologic Past
“Geology’s greatest contribution may be philosophical rather than scientific: the concept of deep time,” wrote Taylor Roades in her Issue 13 feature, Time Scales. “Hiking, then, becomes a way of moving through that scale. Like a walk through a library not authored by people but by Earth’s dynamic history.” ……
By Angie Stevens
