When Charlie Keating first DM’d us on Instagram, we were immediately swept into his brilliant gallery. His style of capture reminded us of Chris Burkard and Christian McLeod. He has a knack for getting way, way out there, and once he’s there, he seems to see things in a slight...

If you haven’t met Annie on the Peak Design team, here’s why you should:1. She’s our Director of Community and Sustainability2. She’s a badass photographer3. Her family is the most adorbs ever4. her spaghetti is on fleek5. sometimes she lives in a vanTrue story. Annie recently...

Our friends at ƒ/8 Workshops take photographers and adventurers off the beaten path to places that even the well-traveled seldom step foot. And there are few paths less beaten than the Faroe Islands, a small isolated subpolar archipelago that sits midway between Iceland and Sc...

Dave Katz gets after it. He’s a filmmaker, photographer, adventurer, writer, and a great friend of Peak Design. We met him a couple years ago, and ever since then we spot him every month or so with a whole new story from a whole new place. Last year he tagged us in a post he m...

We met Gale Straub a couple years ago in her natural element: on the road.She was driving across the country in a home-renovated Sprinter van with her partner in crime Jon Gaffney. The couple stopped in Austin and we encouraged them to take advantage of everything Austin has t...

It was the interwebs that brought John Dunaway into our lives. He had posted a shot of himself walking into the woods to chop down a Christmas tree, with an Everyday Messenger slung over his shoulder. We saw it and thought “damn, this guy looks like a manly dude.” Then we took...

Growing up in Caldwell, Idaho, Kylie Fly has spent her entire life surrounded by rugged outdoor adventure. Another thing surrounding her was a lot of people—eight family members, to be exact. And two of those people are her identical triplet sisters.We’re big fans of Kylie for...

Christian McLeod is an adventure and surf photographer from Sligo, Ireland, who spends pretty much all of his time on the road. If you’re looking for him right now, maybe check the South Island of New Zealand. Or perhaps he’s already off to the US West coast for his upcoming L...

If there was ever a time in your life to shamelessly self-promote, it’s now.That quote is from our earlier post on Kickstarter success factors, titled The Crowd Goes Wild. Not exactly infinite wisdom there. But it does sum up how we marketed our very first Kickstarter campaign...