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Cross-country skiing is among the world's great human-powered modes of movement. Whether you ski classic or skate, here’s the gear you’ll need to get started.
Skier Jamie Pierre died this past weekend in a Utah avalanche and memorials and comments around the web have piled up in response. Warren Miller Entertainment put together this short tribute video to honor the 38-year-old athlete who…
Floating a corner on the new Fuel EX 9.9. Courtesy of Trek/Sterling Lorence. Late last summer Trek invited me to Mayrhofen, Austria, to take a look at its 2012 mountain bike line. I was initially skeptical: Trek, after all, was…
Have kids, will heli-ski: the Cummings in AK [Dean Cummings] Last week I posted highlights from my interview with world champion extreme skier Dean Cummings, who lives in Valdez, Alaska, with his wife and two kids. Naturally you’d think that if…
I want to take my girlfriend to a romantic, outdoorsy winter lodge in the Northeast. Any suggestions?
My pre-climb warm-up feels unstructured. Are there any stretches I can do to be a better climber?
In late September, a surveyor found a small dead bat lying on the ground at a 6,500-acre wind farm in Pennsylvania, prompting an indefinite shutdown of night operations. With demand for green energy on the rise, is pulling the plug on a wind farm over one dead bat the right call?
Love the idea of modeling, but don't have time for the agents, the makeup trailers, the long days on set in Hollywood? Send in a photo of yourself stripped down to your favorite Smartwool layer and a one sentence write up of what inspired you to do…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=R4tsYqjJQ88%C2%A0 Remember the G-Form iPad case? In August we wrote about one in our post The Three Toughest iPad Cases On the Planet. Turns out that “On the Planet” may not have gone far enough. G-Form performed some extreme demonstrations of its technology by…
In 2010, Ed Stafford completed a 4,000-mile-plus, 860-day trek across the Amazon. His journey is chronicled in the new documentary, Walking the Amazon, premiering November 19th on the Discovery Channel.
Up in the Pacific Northwest, Salomon Freeski TV hits the slopes in the snowiest month of the snowiest year in a decade.
In December, personal trainer and infomercial legend Tony Horton unveils P90X2, the follow-up to his wildly popular home-exercise DVD series. Since being released in 2003, P90X has sold more than 45 million copies. The latest version, which focuses on core strength and stability, offers the same brand of living-room motivation and campy expression
Build strength for ski season with this CrossFit-inspired workout
An easy, dramatic performance boost based on an old science is catching on. It's about time.
Is working closely with killer whales in a marine park dangerous for trainers?
These innovators, charities, non-profits, and scientists are helping to make the world a better place.
David de Rothschild is paddling Brazil’s Xingu River with a totem pole to stop the proposed Belo Monte dam
Cognitive scientists are only just beginning to understand what being in nature does for our mental health. But—big surprise!—the evidence is promising. Here are five smart reasons to go wild.
For hiking in 110°F, what top would you recommend? I was once told the best choice was a cotton T-shirt with a wind-resistant outer shirt. Is there any truth to that idea?
Climber Jake Norton began tackling mountains at the age of 12 with an ascent of Mount Rainer. Since then, he has bagged that peak 98 times, climbed on six continents, and traveled to Everest six times. He has summited Everest three times. He helped discover Mallory's remains on Everest…
I want to take a weekend road biking trip in California. What are your suggestions?
Further putting to the test whether there's no such thing as too many pictures, photographer Brian DeFrees strapped a Canon 60D camera to his windshield and used an intervalometer to take a photo once every five minutes as he circled the United States on…
I've been in the office all week, choking on phglem from an early fall cold, cursing the onset of winter, wanting to get out and ride but not quite ready for the frigid temps. (My first test ride of the new Turner Sultan on Monday,…
Senior editor Grayson Schaffer heads to Colorado’s C.S. Irwin Lodge for some cat skiing outside of the classic Crested Butte Mountain Resort. …
Word is spreading that Garrett McNamara surfed a record 90-foot wave off Portugal. In 2008, Mike Parsons surfed a wave estimated to be 70 feet at Cortes Bank.
Climber Aaron Tague taught Tom Cruise how to scale a climbing wall for a scene in the upcoming film Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
The author and his young teammate complete a human-powered circumnavigation of a remote island in Nunavut
The Solyndra solar debacle has some in Congress arguing that government needs to get out of the renewable-power business. Don’t tell that to the Marine Corps, the bravest new recruit in the clean-energy revolution.
No GPS or weather reports—just a sailboat, the wild open ocean, and the constellations. Think you could find your way across the South Pacific? James Campbell rides along with a master navigator in the Caroline Islands, where they’ve been sailing this way for thousands of years.
Five years after retiring from the NFL, former Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe is jumping on a rising trend and building his own line of bespoke skis
I need to update my gear closet for a weekend backpacking trip in Arizona. I can't afford to spend much, but my husband and I are aiming to hike upward of 15 miles each day and I don't want to be weighed down. Any suggestions?
In the world of big mountain skiing, Dean Cummings is a legend. He was the captain of the US Freestyle Ski Team, has hundreds of first descents to his name, has been featured in dozens of ski films and shows, and for years was…
The other morning I had breakfast with Dean Cummings, a veteran Alaska heli-ski guide and all around big mountain badass, who was coming through Santa Fe to promote his new line of skis, H20 Outdoor Gear. That Dean has lived to see 46 is no small feat.
The ASP issued a press release today announcing that it has accepted the resignation of Brodie Carr as CEO, effective December 31. Carr offered his resignation after the premature crowning of Kelly Slater as champ earlier this month. “It is my duty to accept responsibility for the recent calculation error…
Included in our Top 10 Films from Banff, this claymation short from the folks at Public Ritual shreds the gnar using some seriously impressive stop-motion animation. Support from Sherpas Cinema and Solomon Freeski TV.
Sender Films‘ vertigo-inducing flick follows the rivalry between Hans Florine and Dean Potter for the speed record up Yosemite’s El Capitan.
How will an oil pipeline from Alberta to B.C.’s coast effect the Great Bear Wilderness? Trip Jennings and Andy Maser investigate in Spoil. Watch the whole film here.
Call it conservation 2.0. Jared Criscuolo and Kristian Gustavson are building a visual database of America’s most imperiled rivers and crowdsourcing their restoration online.
How does a visionary marine biologist convince brain researchers to help him revolutionize ocean conservation? With lots of hugs, a million blue marbles, and one very unorthodox conference.