In this profile of wingsuit flying, Sandra Konta speaks with Birdmen Jari Kuosma, Nick Rugai, and Robert Pecnik. "What is old news to the skydiving community," she writes, "the mainstream public is just beginning to digest: safe human flight is now a reality."

"He doesn’t answer our question right away, sizing us up for a time before asking the receptionist to dig out some maps of the Popo Agie Wilderness. The map he chooses is hand-drawn, carefully creased and slightly yellow with age," writes Tim Patterson in this soulful and sharp-eyed traverse of the Wyoming highcountry.

The fast-growing sport of stand up paddling gives people new ways to explore oceans, rivers, and everything in between. And yet, as waterman and stand-up paddling innovator Todd Bradley notes, "Stand-up paddling, it’s a tradition for us. All we’re doing is practicing what our culture has already given us, because it is people we looked up to like Duke Kahanamoku who did that in the past."

"The Lamar valley is one of the wildest areas of the region, home to herds of buffalo, the Druid wolf pack and several grizzly bears, including one notorious silver-tip known as the Tent Smasher," writes Tim Patterson. With his unique style blending lyrical prose and comprehensive practical information, Tim takes us through one of the last truly wild places in the lower 48.

An American teaching High School in Japan discovers that baseball, with all its similarities on the field, holds an entirely different place in the lives of young athletes in Japan.

Peter Fong takes us fishing in Borneo, where he notes, "every household owns at least one boat, and the resident cats and chickens might pass their whole lives without ever touching topsoil."

From Wend Magazine's inaugural issue, Melissa Bearns goes riverboarding down the North Santiam at flood stage.