Some Opening Spreads From #196
Check out some opening spreads from a handful of feature stories and articles in Wild 196.
(These spreads originally featured in Wild #196, Winter 2025)
PROJECT 52: A YEAR OF MICROADVENTURING
You don’t need to travel to the ends of the Earth nor give up a full-time job to have adventures on an epic scale.
THE SCALLYWAGS
A handful of adventurous middle-aged blokes decided to create an informal walking group a half-dozen years ago. Now up to their 25th expedition, the number of Scallywags is roughly twenty, and growing. Wild‘s Editor James McCormack recently spent a day in the rainforest with a few of the crew.
NEXT GEN
A story about mountains, skiing, snowboarding, new life, and, most importantly, love.
HITTING THE WALL
Uncertainty is the name of the game when it comes to seeking out Tasmania’s rowdiest backcountry lines. But when things work out, it makes all the troubles worth it.
MOUNTAINS OF MYSTERY: THE PART-TOLD ODYSSEY OF HADI NAZARI
Between December 26 last year and January 8 this year, 23-year-old Hadi Nazari went missing in some of Australia’s most rugged terrain. The search for the lost hiker gripped the nation, and after thirteen days, Hadi was, thankfully, found. But with Hadi, perhaps understandably, shunning publicity—he’s conducted just a single short interview—there is still much that’s unknown about his time in the wilderness. Keith Scott went looking for answers.
GOING LARGE: DELVING INTO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ‘BIG TRIP’
What defines a big trip? How do they change you? And how do you even go about tackling one? Dan Slater, no stranger to big trips himself, chats with Laura Waters and Wild‘s Editor James McCormack about what it means to go large.
THE GATES OF THE WILD
Pat Wilcox heads off on the adventure of a lifetime: A 28-day solo packrafting and hiking traverse through Alaska’s Brooks Range and the enormous, utterly spectacular Gates of the Arctic NP.
DO YOU REMEMBER?
One of the most rewarding aspects of leading an outdoorsy life is having great memories. But how, and why, do we remember some things and not others? While recounting four trips to lesser-known reserves in North East Victoria, Ryan Hansen digs deeper into the psychology of memory.
BE HERE NOW
Iceland? It’s overtouristed, the purists say. If you really want to get away to the last frontier, to a place that’s bigger than Queensland but with just 56,000 people, head to Greenland. But get there soon, before it gets developed. Well, before Trump buys it.
