Matthew Whalen (@whalenography) is part of The Changing Earth team. The Changing Earth is an online adventure learning project. The project focuses on the environmental and social impacts of climate change, and positive stories of adapting to those changes within each location...

You might remember our friend Charlie Keating from his previous Field Note on Iceland's Ring Road. Well he's back. And he's got a lot of pretty pictures to show you. We really think you're going to fall for them.Oof, rough start. Let's regroup. The Havasupai Indian Reservatio...

You've heard our story before - lovable goofus from Minnesota does the 'Eat, Pray, Love' thing for a while, meets a great idea, and makes a gorgeous baby called Peak Design. But maybe you haven't heard much about where this all went down. Chances are you know that we're from S...

It's about time you meet our long-time London-based friend Juliet Lemon (@juliet_lemon). She came into our lives years ago, back when we were a wee little 3-product company, to inquire about our handy-dandy quick connecting camera straps (which she still uses and abuses to thi...

We first crossed paths with SF-based Vincent Carabeo during his days with Moment Lens. Our designer Joey was casually finagling a gear swap when he noticed that this Vincent character had a drop-dead gorgeous Insta gallery. Joey introduced Vincent to others on the PD team and ...

It's probably a safe bet that you are at least a little familiar with Peak Design's storied relationship with Kickstarter and crowdfunding (6 successful campaigns, most-funded active company in Kickstarter history, etc ,etc). The ability to harness financial and creative capit...

Peter here, Founder and CEO of Peak Design. I was about 15 minutes away from pressing the publish button on this Field Note when President Trump announced his plans to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, an agreement that even ExxonMobil endorses. In some ways, that ma...

For the record, we're not here to bash #vanlife. A quarter of the Peak Design team has either lived in a van or currently owns an endearingly unreliable adventuremobile. We love that our generation (we're all millennial-ish in age) romanticizes life on the road, unburdened by ...

Getting a great deal on travel usually means visiting a place in the low season or shoulder season. It also means seeing a slightly different side of that place than you normally get on travel blogs and social media. Still, sometimes you see a deal on a flight that’s too good ...