5 Reasons to Try Mountain Gazette in '25
It's a whole new year, and we have all new issues to give you an escape doomscroll. Need proof? Here it is.
1. Finally, you get some respect as a reader.
Fearless, uncensored editorial illustrated by stunning photography and original art work focused on mountain town culture.
🤘 Stories and long form essays published in previous issues:
- The legalization of base jumping
- Tagging along with World Central Kitchen
- Buying a used vehicle from a mountain town convict
- Fly fishing the New Jersey coastline
- Skateboarding in the Mountains
- The best of Jimmy Chin's photography
- Roadtripping through Pakistan
- Riding with the Crazy 8's winter motorcycle group
- Backcountry skiing in Chile
- Wild land Firefighting in Washington
- Birdwatching in New York
Our contributors include veteran outdoor photographers and award-winning journalists. These people create at the highest levels, and they elevate Mountain Gazette for the reader.
Our ad agency said it was a bad idea to link to anywhere but "the subscribe page", but we're independently published, so we do want we want. Go see our contributors here.
2. Issues are limited and print content is exclusive.
We don’t distribute to grocery store new stands, and we don’t republish print content online behind a paywall. When our publisher first relaunched the magazine in 2020 the first 1,000 copies sold out in a week. The next eight issues were the same.
Some time in the past couple of years we discovered that people were selling sets of vintage back issues for as much as a plane ticket to from New England to Utah during the height of winter.
If we weren’t so busy making this thing we’d hand number each issue just to make a point.
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There’s only ☝️ way to get your hands on Mountain Gazette: subscribe and have it delivered to your house.
3. You'll be among rare company.
We can’t name names, but… winning and losing Olympians, legendary mountaineers, elite outdoor journalists and authors, competing magazine publishers ( shhh... 🤫 ), and musicians who regularly sell out Red Rocks and Madison Square Garden (dirtbags not so in disguise) all subscribe to Mountain Gazette.
Print ain’t dead. Those who know, know.
4. Each issue is a STATEMENT piece.
We print on 11x17" paper that dwarfs the standard 8x11” size used by competing outdoor mega mags. The Spring issue will be nearly TWO FEET WIDE when fully open. 🤯
That’s a shit-ton of real estate that we can devote to floor-to-ceiling photo features and long form essays, sometimes up to 20,000 words long. Mountain Gazette has an unmistakable presence anywhere it’s seen.
"Each issue is more coffee table book than magazine." - Issue 197 subscriber
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5. You get a break from the the f*ckin ads.
No gear guides. No resort lists. No barely disguised advertorial written by sales hacks. Does 120+ pages of uninterrupted reading sound good?
Ads only run in the first few pages and the last few pages. Everything in between is just content—pure and simple. We have 3,000+ subscribers who agree that outdoor magazines should be made for readers, not for ads.
Read why we think outdoor media is broken.💀
👌 BONUS: The back of your toilet already has enough issues.
And you don't need another magazine you're just going to add to the pile and then throw away.
Mountain Gazette is 160+ pages thick. The paper is meaty (and environmentally friendly) and the colors and text are gorgeously printed.
We ship every issue in rigid packaging because we know the satisfaction that comes from crisp pages. We give a sh*t about quality.
Subscribe to a magazine you’ll keep, and maybe even collect and pass on to the next generation. Mountain Gazette was made for keeps.