In this second edition, we hear from world-renowned photographer, Chris Burkard, about his recent bikepacking adventure across Iceland. We also profile The Cairn Project — a nonprofit supporting community-based wilderness and outdoor education groups to expand outdoor access for girls and young women. We feature articles by two Cairn Project Ambassadors, Ashley Carruth on a backpacking trip with 10 female-identifying youths in Colorado’s Weminuche Wilderness, and Annie Le on one of many bikepacking excursions in the Scottish Highlands. A few hundred miles further north, we explore the rugged shores of the Shetland Islands, before heading south and trekking across Sudan’s little-visited Bayuda Desert. We then navigate wilderness trails in South Africa and Rwanda, and hike up northern Kenya’s Mount Ololokwe.
