In this autoethnography, I read my history of and connection to outdoor culture, with an eye
towards interrogating my complicity in historical and ongoing settler-colonial violence that has
rendered my love of “the mountains” both possible and ostensibly unproblematic. In so doing, I
unsettle (my) understandings of the connections between land, embodiment, masculinities, and
able-bodiedness, exploring how settler attachment to the mountains is predicated on, and serves
to perpetuate, a(n ongoing) history of land dispossession. I also, however, consider a “different
temporal horizon” through a discussion of settler futurity as it relates to outdoor recreation,
complicating settler mobility in the process.