“Have you ever heard of the cowboy straddle?” my partner, Emanuel, asked. Without waiting for a reply, he hoisted himself onto a log suspended above a rushing stream and began using branches on either ...

Later this summer, a group of Boy Scouts from St. Helena’s Troop 1 and their adult leaders will return to the site of an earlier tragedy. The scouts are preparing for an 80-mile, 10-day backpacking ...