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To start with, long steady rides are a boring waste of time, power meters are both absolutely vital and extraneous bullshit, and you can get faster without training like a lifeless automaton

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The Park Service says they’re doing their best but no one wins when America’s most iconic valley becomes an endless, exhaust-choked loop of creeping traffic. Can anything be done to prevent bumper-to-bumper traffic from becoming the new normal in Yosemite Valley?

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Learning to eat simply—and well—and cook without a mess on the road

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They'll keep your beer cold for a stupid long time and are easy to transport

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How We Grow Is film from Haley Thompson and Tomas Zuccareno about how young people in Colorado are becoming the next generation of farmers.

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In our ongoing Weekly Escape series, we aim to transport you from your desk to an incredible place in two minutes or less.

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Though he's a married man, Landon Mace finds that theres only one thing on his mind, trout.

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At the gates of Yellowstone, this retailer has learned to embrace the non-local traveler, alongside the hometown expert

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The 65-year-old swimmer has set 355 world records. And she's still going.

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A lot of assumptions have been made about the national-monuments review. Many of them aren't true.

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As every local knows, crisp days and cool nights make fall the best time to explore Montana

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When Daniel Duane was a kid, his father taught him how to climb in Yosemite. Two decades later, when his teenage daughter wanted a valley education of her own, he realized that the old beta no longer applied.

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Shirin Gerami is Iran's first female triathlete and when she couldn't find clothes that would satisfy both her performance and her country, she had to make them.

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Behind the Sun from filmmaker Matt Kleiner follows 3 Time World Champion Surfer Mick Fanning during the shooting of an episode of Red Bull's Chasing the Shot.

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In a remote jungle in Nepal, filmmakers Camp4 Collective and Felt Soul Media embarked on telling the story of an ancient tradition: honey harvesting.

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One lousy fit for Phil Oren turned into a revolutionary way of fitting shoes for all hardcore hikers

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Cycling legend Rebecca Rusch discusses Blood Road, the new documentary on her journey down the Ho Chi Minh trail to find the crash site where her father disappeared.

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It's more doable than you think. Just don't forget the chamois cream.

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The story of how a confectionary mishap helped Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the world's most famous summit

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You may be in the middle of the wilderness, but a local IPA isn’t that far away

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Because no one wants to be left in the dark

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From Filmmakers Johny Mourgue and Simon Oxley 'Forwards Ever, Backwards Never' explores the kind of bravery it takes to overcome a lifelong fear.

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Margaret Wheeler of the American Mountain Guides Association walks us through the steps it takes to clean an anchor.

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When Chris Brinlee Jr. left a job as the art director for an agency based in LA, he'd never been out of the country.

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Filmmaker Arvids Baranovs of Eaglewood Films loaded up his family of four and headed to the Portugal coast. In search of some finer weather than early spring in Latvia can provide, they caught a glimpse of solitude on the mainland Europe's western region.

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The best flip flops for under $50

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Seven items that the Mystery Ranch founder always has on the trail

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Every sport has moments it would rather forget

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Not completely, but they're certainly in a state of flux

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Your one-stop shopping list for the coming year

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While living on a portaledge—a suspended platform about the size of a double bed—you still need to perform basic bodily functions, including, yes, answering calls of nature. This is how it works.

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The Spandex-clad "roadus velocipedus" species is being subsumed by the "adventure bike" category. Has the sun finally set on road riding?

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Another controversial speed attempt on the country's most popular trail points to the need for a better system for verifying hikers' times

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When my friend asked me if I wanted to attempt to Everest on my bike—climb the equivalent height of the 29,029-foot mountain in a single ride—I gave my answer little thought. “I’m in,” read my little blue text message. That was it.

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There's a lot of overlap between athletics and work, and the world's best apply the same principles to, say, training for a marathon as they do to building a business

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And the very important lessons we can learn from them

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It's only going to happen once in our lifetimes—better make sure you don't screw up your soundtrack

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Eric Lagerstrom competed in his first triathlon when he was just 12 years old. He turned pro at age 23, and he’s now a top competitor on the World Triathlon Series. He has also become a skilled videographer and often captures footage during his own races—using GoPros and drones.

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Colorado's inaugural Velorama was a colorful combination of bike racing, music, and fan-friendly spectacle aimed at giving road racing in the US a shot in the arm.

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A restored 1937 Yellowstone tour bus.

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A packable jacket that looks as good on the bike as it does in the city.

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A watch that pays tribute to America's first fighter pilots.

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After years of testing, I've determined that these must be the most versatile approach shoes around

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A leather fly wallet.

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Fender just released its first Bluetooth speaker and it rocks

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There’s more to amateur photography than a selfie stick

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The best outdoor blankets according to Amazon reviewers.

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Our correspondent heads to Bears Ears National Monument to find out

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Photographer and Filmmaker Abraham Joffe has always been drawn to places that see very few visitors and the polar region fits that criteria like nowhere else.

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The winter of 2017 was a force to be reckoned with from Tahoe to Maine, there were record snowfalls across the board. It was a wild season and you can follow all the excitement in TGR's new feature film Rogue Elements.

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Like running shorts, but tough as nails, these bottoms are made for hard hiking

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Big portions of Highway 1 are closed—which means there's never been a better time to explore this coastal paradise on foot and bike

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For years, the action-cam maker insisted it wanted to become an entertainment company. Now it's back to focusing on a few core products—a strategy that is finally working

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The GOP's war on public lands threatens to alienate a key part of its voting base—sport hunters

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Deep in the remote jungle of Laos, mountain biker Rebecca Rusch, Director Nick Schrunk, and the rest of the Blood Road documentary team embarked on a shoot within a spirit filled cave.

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The Northmen are craftsmen who pride themselves on building lasting tools by hand, "We use our hands to create things that will live on, telling their story in the hands of the craftsmen and people after us."

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Kyle Jameson is by far one of the most stoked guys in mountain biking. If you see an oddly tall guy waiting around a bunch of twelve-year-olds for Brandon Semenuk's autograph, that's him.

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On August 21, a total solar eclipse will happen for the first time in North America since 1979.

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And no, we’re not talking about his bike

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Some explored the unknown, some made scientific breakthroughs, some are working to save the world. All are pioneers whose names should be more well-recognized.

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Don’t spend all your cash on something to hold your cash.

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The Hipcamp founder lets us in on her most essential pre-bed gear

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Whatever you do, just don't tell these serious, old'ish cyclists that they're living in a retirement home

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From the fundamentals of just picking up your garbage to the sophisticated ripple effects of a dam project on a watershed, this film explores the wide range of conservation efforts.

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Pack the cooler. From surfing in Rhode Island to fishing the newly reborn Elwha River in the Northwest, these are the season’s quintessential weekend escapes.

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USADA tried to place a gag order on Armstrong when he partnered with the Colorado Classic to broadcast his podcast. No matter your thoughts about the bike racer's character, that's just wrong—and it's really bad for the sport.

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At the University of Vermont, mathematicians in the Computational Story Lab are reading your tweets and learning a lot about our collective well-being

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The headlines can be misleading, particularly with track’s most famous doper

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A beautiful longboard handcrafted in Africa

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An overland camper you can use all year

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When it comes to pizza, trust the Italians

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The decorated veteran announced this week that he's done with professional cycling, leaving behind a legacy of highly tactical riding and lots of heart

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The thing is tiny, reliable, and could very well save your ass

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This segment of the bike world is growing rapidly, so we called in all the new stuff and took it camping in the New Mexico backcountry

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The most ground-breaking invention ever

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How one tragic evening revolutionized bear management in our national parks

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The Boulderite went from knocking on doors in Paris to editing a feature film

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How to alert walkers, hikers, and runners to your presence—and why "On your left!" needs to die, already

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For over 112 years The U.S. Forest Service has been the caretaker of America's public land.

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