{"id":13259,"date":"2026-05-18T16:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=13259"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:48:36","slug":"who-gets-to-belong-outside-communities-are-working-to-widen-the-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=13259","title":{"rendered":"Who Gets to Belong Outside? 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Andr\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>We were talking about trail snacks. He had packed <i>navajas,<\/i> razor clams hand-harvested on Spain\u2019s Atlantic Coast (what I\u2019m eating from his pocketknife in the photo above). But for this stretch of the Camino de Santiago, he considered the Galician empanada to be the perfect food. Flat, baked, stuffed with tuna or cod. A portable feast. \u201cYou put it in the bag, boom,\u201d he said. \u201cGreat for travelers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he told me about the cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in a church in Santiago de Compostela, he said, there is a carving depicting hell. And hell, in this particular rendering, is not fire and brimstone. Hell is a man hanging upside down by his feet, hands bound behind his back, while other people offer him empanadas. He cannot eat them.<\/p>\n<p>The problem isn\u2019t necessarily hunger. The problem is that the man is cut off from the act of somebody making something and passing it to somebody else. Hell is being outside the circle.<\/p>\n<p>I was walking the Camino with Jos\u00e9 and his wife, Patricia, who were celebrating their 30th anniversary the way they\u2019ve celebrated the last several: on foot. Jos\u00e9\u2014the chef and humanitarian whose <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" rel=\"noopener\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/wck.org\/\">World Central Kitchen<\/a> has served more than 500 million meals in disaster zones around the world\u2014is our cover story this issue. And if you spend any real time with him, you notice that he is, relentlessly, a man handing things to other people. Making sure there is a circle, and that nobody stands outside it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the thread running through this issue: who\u2019s been left out, and who\u2019s working to make sure they\u2019re welcomed. In our America\u2019s Next 250 package, which celebrates the people and ideas making this country\u2019s outdoor experiences brighter, Gloria Liu reports on the Black entrepreneurs who built resorts like the original Ebony Beach Club under Jim Crow\u2014beaches their communities were legally barred from\u2014and the surfers and organizers picking that work back up today. Sheeka Sanahori tells the story of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" rel=\"noopener\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocmulgeepark.org\/\">Ocmulgee Mounds<\/a> in Georgia, an ancient Muscogee capital city that could become America\u2019s 64th national park, co-stewarded with the nation that was forcibly removed from it two centuries ago. Martha Cheng\u2019s dispatch from Hawai\u2018i follows the farmers and fishpond keepers rebuilding a food system on an island that imports 90 percent of what it eats. And Mike Bezemek\u2019s detective story about Moncacht-Ap\u00e9, the Yazoo explorer who crossed the continent a century before Lewis and Clark, is really about helping history catch up to a man it shut out.<\/p>\n<p>The thing about that image of hell is that it\u2019s not really about the man hanging upside down; he\u2019s not the message. The message is for everyone else\u2014the ones with free hands. The question is whether you\u2019ll notice. Whether you\u2019ll do something about it. Look around your trail, your beach, your park, your table. See who\u2019s been left out. And pass the empanada.<\/p>\n<p>See you out there.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kevin Sintumuang<\/b><b><br \/><\/b>Editorial Director<\/p>\n<h2>Scout Report<\/h2>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<section id=\"\" class=\"content-card rounded-xl px-base-loose pt-base-loose pb-loose shadow-sm shadow-black\/10\">\n<h3>Jeep Anvil 715 Concept<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2741559\" class=\"pom-image-wrap photo-aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Dark teal Jeep in red sand.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2741559\" style=\"color:transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jeep-anvil-715-concept.jpg?width=3840&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75&amp;fit=cover 1x\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jeep-anvil-715-concept.jpg?width=3840&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75&amp;fit=cover\"\/><figcaption class=\"pom-caption\">(Photo: Courtesy Jeep)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After crawling up a slickrock shelf outside Moab in the Anvil 715 concept during Easter Jeep Safari, I\u2019d love to see its best features on a production Wrangler, please: a boxy retro face inspired by Jeep\u2019s 1960s military trucks; a rich, dark green paint job; a raised roof and added skylights for big-sky views on long trips. And underneath, a thundering 470-horsepower V-8 and massive 37-inch tires that mean it can climb some steep inclines when it\u2019s simply idling.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/section>\n<section id=\"\" class=\"content-card rounded-xl px-base-loose pt-base-loose pb-loose shadow-sm shadow-black\/10\">\n<h3>New Balance 1080v15<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2741558\" class=\"pom-image-wrap photo-aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"New Balance 1080v15 in pastel green\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2741558\" style=\"color:transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/new-balance-1080v15.jpg?width=3840&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75&amp;fit=cover 1x\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/new-balance-1080v15.jpg?width=3840&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75&amp;fit=cover\"\/><figcaption class=\"pom-caption\">(Photo: Courtesy New Balance)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 1080 has always been New Balance\u2019s daily trainer: reliable, but perhaps a bit normcore. 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