Editor in Chief at @BackpackerMag / backpacker.com He/him. Spider enjoyer. Opinions my own. On Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/adnroy.bsky…
Joined March 2008
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Hello! I'm not here anymore, but I DO have a shiny new website. Find me there: adamroy.net
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21 Mar 2025
Breaking my self-imposed Twitter exile to say: Happy birthday, @COBlackpacker!
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11 Mar 2025
Folks...I think I'm done here for the time being. I may check in here and there, but for the most part, you'll find me posting on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/adnroy.bsky…
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NAHJ urges the Trump administration to revoke its ban on the @AP from @WhiteHouse events and to stop penalizing news organizations for their reporting.
Read more ➡️ nahj.org/joint-statement-of-…
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Beautiful essay on an extremely difficult topic.
20 Feb 2025
.@MaggieSlepian was 13 the first time she restricted her food intake to reclaim power over her life. In her gripping @Longreads essay, she recounts her struggle with anorexia and bulimia, what drove her to seek treatment, and why she remains vigilant.
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18 Feb 2025
Here it is: I spent the weekend talking to fired and current employees of the USFS, NPS, and USFWS. The stories they tell—understaffed parks, missing trail crews, qualified firefighters gone—paint a picture of a public lands system reaching a crisis point: backpacker.com/stories/issue…
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13 Feb 2025
Make National Parks Absolute Shitshows Again.
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13 Feb 2025
Baby journalists, look into the mirror and repeat after me: the government is not my editor.
13 Feb 2025
We are on day 3 of the showdown between the White House and the Associated Press: washingtonpost.com/style/med…
“This looks like a test case for the Trump White House to see what they can get away with,” @Acosta told me. “And to me, it seems that news organizations should be getting behind the Associated Press sooner rather than later in order to show a united front."
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13 Feb 2025
If you, or someone you know, had a job offer from the NPS, USFS, or other outdoors-facing agency rescinded in the current federal hiring freeze, or if you're an employee whose programs or operations have been impacted by said freeze, I'd like to hear from you. DM for Signal.
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12 Feb 2025
People are going to roll their eyes at this in ten years. This is just Freedom Fries but on a larger scale, and this time a bunch of purportedly smart people are playing along.
12 Feb 2025
Microsoft has also made the name change on its Bing maps. 9news.com/article/news/natio…
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11 Feb 2025
Statement on Press Access:
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BREAKING: Associated Press (@AP) told to “align its editorial standards” — and rename the Gulf of Mexico — or lose Oval Office access.
This unprecedented act of censorship should elicit a harsh, bi-partisan rebuke in defense of America’s free press.
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Isabella is a phenomenally talented journalist—skilled at the fundamentals of writing, reporting, promoting, and dealing with people, and thoughtful about the way her work intersects with the world. I recommend her in the strongest terms.
10 Feb 2025
hi, i was laid off from Outside Magazine/Outside Inc. last week as part of company-wide cuts. will really miss my colleagues in addition to being employed!
just gonna vibe for a bit before thinking about what’s next, but HMU for fact-checking, writing, editing etc. 💞
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11 Feb 2025
As you may have gathered, a handful of my colleagues lost their jobs last week. Our loss could be your gain, though: Anyone who makes the cut to work for Outside is a top-flight journalist who you can hire with confidence in both their hard and soft skills.
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4 Feb 2025
And the @ADL, which called for his last appointment to be rescinded in 2020, has removed its criticism of him from their website.
4 Feb 2025
“Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.” — Darren Beattie
Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with White nationalists to top State Department role
cnn.com/2025/02/03/politics/…
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3 Feb 2025
Hawaii's Haiku Stairs are controversial—and illegal to hike—on a good day. But two sailors' decision to film themselves throwing a piece of the hike's metal railing off a mountainside has landed them in deep trouble. backpacker.com/news-and-even…
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31 Jan 2025
I think that the "who is this guy" should be posted at the top of newspaper op-eds, and this case the answer is "a retired ICE official."
30 Jan 2025
Opinion | “When federal, state and local law enforcement are able to join together and cooperate, we only make the community safer; HB 1124 prevents that.” — John Fabbricatore trib.al/Ap9QlSK
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Just popping in to say: called it. backpacker.com/news-and-even…
27 Jan 2025
Interestingly enough, the US never allowed southbound hikers to cross at the terminus. So part of me wonders if this is a tit-for-tat thing inspired by the new political environment.
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