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After his friend Kevin Bowser died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, David Sylvester decided to honor his memory by following through on a long-time personal goal—riding his bike across the U.S. After that trip, he was hooked: he rode across Africa. Then Asia. Then the…
Despite a stellar record of spending cuts, job creation, and balanced budgets—and a world-class adventure résumé that includes an Everest summit—former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson can't get anyone to take his campaign for president seriously. Is it him or us?
What's the best canoe for a week-long Boundary Waters trip?
Big-city marathons, triathlons, and adventure races have never been more popular. Here's why it's time for you to line up for the starting gun, too.
Tonight, Patagonia and eBay announced a new partnership, the Common Threads Initiative. Together, they asked owners of fleece and Gore-Tex everywhere to pledge to reduce consumption, reuse old gear, recycle, repair what's broken, and reimagine a world where people don't stress the earth with…
J.W. Hulme, the Minnesota-based bag company that's been making those handsome green and leather duffels in these United States of America since the turn of the 20th century, has made six exclusive items for the official charity of…
Until his paralysis, Josh Dueck was an aspiring pro skier. Now, he’s pushing the limits of sit-skiing, winning competitions and going big in the backcountry.
I'm going hiking in Bolivia, and I'm thinking about using an emergency blanket instead of a sleeping bag. Thoughts? Any recommendations on a liner or material?
Jeb Corliss flying near Tianmen Hole, Courtesy of Jeb Corliss Yesterday, we posted a super slowmo video of Jeb Corliss fying in a wingsuit so low to the ground that he was able to hit the string…
Outlier founders Abe Burmeister and Tyler Clemens believe that clothing should be liberating. It should never restrict what you do with your day. They started their Brooklyn-based company in 2008 because Burmeister wanted an unrestrictive pair of pants he could ride his…
The only thing more varied than photographer Michael Muller’s portfolio—portraits of superstars from Kelly Slater to Lebron James, movie posters for blockbusters like Captain America and Spiderman 3,…
Dinner to go This one’s going to be brief because we're on our way out of town to raft the San Juan River for the second, and last, time this season. The preparations seem less daunting…
Australian Mark Visser’s on a quest to surf the world’s biggest waves–even those big enough to flip freighters in the middle of the Pacific. Read Kyle Dickman’s profile of Visser here.
Live smarter in the city with these five essential skills
Probably the most talked about moment in Jeb Corliss's latest video, “Grinding the Crack,” occurs when a man holding balloons dives to the left as Corliss flies dangerously close to him, and the…
Finally, field water disinfection has become lighter. Never did I notice the bulk and serious weight of water filter more than when I had to pack for a week in rural Haiti. In my Patagonia MLC pack I had just enough room for a Sawyer water filter bottle, a…
The ProTour landscape is undergoing seismic shifts for 2012. Following a week of speculation, RadioShack and Leopard Trek made it official yesterday that they will merge for next season to form the RadioShack Nissan Trek Professional Cycling Team. The news…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/L35qBS7XqvI Sender Films and Big UP just released the trailer for the sixth annual Reel Rock climbing film tour, which kicks off in Boulder on September 15. The show will take six climbing films on the road (five by Sender and Big UP, plus Cold, a mountaineering documentary shot by…
Or, Why is running compelling? I followed last week's world track and field championships obsessively, something I have done since I was 14, and rarely to my benefit—there's always something more valuable I should be paying attention to, like work, or homework. Over the weekend I came across an essay…
The 5 Gyres Institute sails the world’s oceans to study how plastic impacts ecosystems. Watch their adventures in Plasticized, which will be released by year’s end.
It seems like most people I see in the gym use the same exercises. Which exercises work and which moves are overrated?
Barefoot running is all the rage. Enter the counterpoint. Hoka One One says that fat, squishy soles are the true path to success. We've tested an ultramarathon of running shoes, and we've gotta admit that Hoka One One has some cushy merits. Though the marshmellow-soled shoes look…
South America has more than 144,000 miles of coastline, so you can really take your pick. Start with these. Saquarema, BrazilSaquarema is Brazil’s beach sports hub, a quiet town molded around a lagoon that drains into the South Atlantic about 60 miles east of Rio de Janeiro. It’s home…
Camp 14 is one of the liveliest spots on Denali, where climbers acclimatize and socialize before pushing to the summit. Add a photographer and travel writer to the mix and you get a who’s who on the highest peak in North America.
How much gear do you really need on a three-day backpacking trip?
Matthias Girard is lucky to be alive after the first successful SkiBASE of the Matterhorn. He admitted as much after posting the above video on his blog yesterday. Just before jumping his ski got caught in the snow, but he was able to do a front flip to keep…
Blair Beakley Guest Blog by Emily Brendler Shoff With young kids, it can be an accomplishment to get out the front door. So when my husband, Andy, and I decided to take our girls camping and meet up with some…
Photo by Victah Sailer/PhotoRun.net Before Thursday, I doubt that many people would have picked Jenny Barringer Simpson to end the title drought in American distance running that has persisted, stubbornly, since the mid 1980s. When Barringer Simpson went wide into lane three in…
An exclusive clip from the River Why, a feature film based on David James Duncan’s classic fly-fishing novel of the same name.
We've heard of sport specific footwear, but this shoe takes the cake. As you can see in the video below, the testing sessions for the Five Ten Atlas Pamplona resulted in more than just blisters. The company sent 150 runners out with red kicks at this year's…
Visser parachuting into the open ocean, Photo by Dallas Olsen Surfer Mark Visser is upping the ante again. After tricking out a board and wetsuit with LEDs to surf Jaws at night, he's now parachuting into the…
Five athletes, five sports, one season. For the second year running, Fitz Cahall and Bryan Smith bring you 22 web episodes of athletes playing in British Columbia. Here is what we can expect to see.
Should I use hardwood or softwood for a bow-drill? I've heard different things.
At a time when the Atlantic’s population of big-game fish has been detonated by commercial harvesting, does it make sense to strap into a fighting chair and reel them in like Hemingway? Maybe not. But the adventure, mystery, and beauty of deep-sea angling still has a powerful pull.
From farm shares to bike shares, these seven flashes of genius are reinventing a metropolis near you
After 34 books, endless Hemingway comparisons, and too many battles with gout, legendary author Jim Harrison is unsurpassed at chronicling man's relationship with wilderness. His secret? Ample wine, cigarettes, fly-fishing—and an inability to give a damn about what anyone else thinks. Our author takes a literary pilgrimage to Montana.
Few events excite Manhattan’s top chefs more than the arrival of a care package from Evan Strusinski, a foraging savant who stalks the remote woods and coastlines of the Northeast for nature’s most exotic ingredients. Forgive him his trespasses.
From erosion-resistant reefs to recycled toilet water (gulp), five city strategies freshening up the 21st century
The mountain peaks that make this list could double as a greatest hits compilation for the Appalachian Trail below the Mason-Dixon Line: all but one are accessible via the AT. 5. Springer Mountain, GeorgiaFor AT thru-hikers, the 2,100-mile trek to Maine doesn’t officially begin until they trudge up the…
What does India’s lush Kaziranga National Park have that the rest of the country’s decimated reserves do not? Plenty of tigers, for starters. (The world’s highest density.) Fleets of endangered one-horned rhinos. (More than two-thirds of the remaining population.) And, since last year, a take-no-prisoners antipoaching policy that allows rangers to shoot on sig
On wind-blasted San Francisco Bay, a crew of hardcore rowers dodges freighters and fog banks for kicks. They are mostly women over 40. And they will destroy you.
Jason McLennan’s supergreen designs could rewrite the rules of sustainability, but critics wonder if they’re practical enough to make a difference.
Once you’ve been waylaid by a painful blister or hypothermic toes, you’ll never again settle for a six pack of discount cotton socks. Synthetic socks can literally save a trip. I’ve had success with Dahlgren’s “Dri-Stride” technology, a system that transfers and evaporates moisture through wicking rings and channels. The…