by Tamara Jacobi, Eco-Adventurer
I look up at the towering papaya trees surrounding our dipping pool. Newly planted last year, these trees had peered up at me timidly, searching for guidance. I breathe in deeply, inhaling the scent of their flowers, as though to draw inspiration as I return to commence another year of running my family’s eco-lodge on the pacific coastline…

by Sarahlee Lawrence
Inquisitive, reticulated giraffes walked gracefully up to us while our horses grazed. Some days we slipped through a herd of sixty or more, towering like a cathedral. I rode where the only trails are elephant trails, the sky is so vast it seemed to wrap around me, and the Southern Cross and Big Dipper sat in the same sky. Horses carried me through the still wild bush of the Laikipia District in Kenya…

by Shannon Mullen, Journalist & Outdoor Girl
In climbing, you learn mostly through failure,” my instructor said with a grin, “but success is that much sweeter.” I’d just fallen off the rock wall for the fifth time at an indoor climbing gym in Lander, Wyoming. The small ranching town in the Rocky Mountains is famous in this sport for its proximity to breathtaking, steep-walled canyons, towering boulders left by the glaciers that carved them, and the scores of talented athletes who come in droves to scale both…

Team Athleta knows how to weather the cold in style by skiing, snow boarding, ice skating, hiking, and being on the move into the wee hours while shooting in Portillo, Argentina and Park City, Utah. Enjoy this glimpse into the creation of our Holiday catalogs along with spectacular scenery, spoon balancing, snowman hugging, and all-around silliness…

The ladies and gents of Athleta had a special treat last Friday when Maya and the Ice Chamber Kettlebell Team came to our Petaluma headquarters to share their passion (and shed their perspiration) for Kettlebell Sport. Here are some of the highlights…