The Trailhead
Every journey has a first step. And some of the greatest, most meaningful journeys begin at trailheads. Welcome to ours! Here you’ll learn about gear, see route and trail intel, and dive into stories, images, and videos from our global community of adventureheads like you. Think of it like "The Third Place"–not home, not work, but your other most important/favorite place. The spot to hang out around like-minded people and have your life decisions and priorities validated. You won't need to justify your latest gear purchase or explain why you're using up all your paid time off hours to this crowd. They get it. Let’s go!
Bikepackrafting Cataract Canyon with Mike Curiak
Hyperlite Mountain Gear Ambassador, biking enthusiast and founder of Lace Mine 29, a custom bike wheel company, Mike Curiak has pushed the sport of extreme cycling to new heights, and was nominated...
The Bozeman Ice Festival
Bozeman Ice Fest Basics For more than 19 years, ice climbers of all levels of expertise from all over the world have come together at the Bozeman Ice Festival to climb, eat and check out gear. The ...
Motivated By The Unknown: A Chat With Adventurer Mike Curiak
Ambassador Mike Curiak is an avid multi-sport adventurer. He just embarked on a packraft adventure with Roman Dial and Brad Meiklejohn, which you can read about here. “Almost everything cool I did...
Kurt Ross: The French Route, Mount Hunter
Hyperlite Mountain Gear Ambassador Kurt Ross recently returned from a mega-successful climbing adventure to the Kahiltna Glacier, Denali National Park, Alaska. Please see Part I to read an overview...
Killing it on the Kahiltna Glacier: Kurt Ross’ Climbing Report
This past May Hyperlite Mountain Gear Ambassador Kurt Ross climbed the Southwest Ridge of Mount Francis, the West Face of Kahiltna Queen, an unreported route on the South Face of Peak 12,200, Bacon...
Live With Less; Experience More
Simplifying can be Scary, but the Rewards are Great, from our Stripped Down series. Photos and text by KT Miller It all started after I spent a week skiing with Beau Fredlund outside Cooke City. Mo...
On the Chetco River: A Packrafting Adventure
HMG Ambassador Mike Curiak's passion is mountain biking. He's hand built over 7,000 29" wheels in the last decade. In that time he's ridden over 40,000 trail miles on wheels he's built for himself ...
Ambassador Spotlight: Bayard Russell
Photo by Anne Skidmore Russell New Hampshire’s mountains may be small compared to Western ranges, but they offer some ferocious terrain and hearty individuals. We recently chatted with hunter, clim...
New Athlete! Angela VanWiemeersch
Hyperlite Mountain Gear would like to welcome our newest ambassador. Bad Ass for sure! “Basically I’m in love with wide open places, and I strive to explore those places to the fullest. Climbing g...
Forrest McCarthy on Tasmania’s Overland Track
HMG's Ambassadors are the testers, critics and storytellers of our products. They put our gear through the paces in the worlds toughest playgrounds and give us critical feedback which helps us driv...
Putting up a new route in Alaska with Ambassador Seth Timpano
HMG Ambassador Seth Timpano is a world class mountaineer and guide. He has led him on climbing trips throughout the globe including: Antarctica, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Alaska, Canada, Spain, Franc...
Quinn Brett: Canada Alpine Climbing Tour
Quinn Brett joined our team of HMG Ambassadors in Spring 2013. Since then she's been putting our backpacks and shelters through their paces in some of the world's great outdoor playgrounds. Read on...
