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Plying the Icicle River, Washington. Photo: Leah Ricketts By Russ Ricketts It all started innocently enough. My friend Matt told me about snorkeling with the salmon in our local rivers in the Cascade Mountains. His epic tales of huge fish, deep pools and fast currents held…
Surfing the Canary Islands. Photo: Guillermo Cervera Guillermo Cervera first fell in love with photography when he discovered a box of Playboys his father brought home from the United States. “They were beautiful color pictures, and…
What was that hand signal Vavra Hradilek threw in the kayak slalom? It was a pretend bag of excrement.
The Arctic is getting warmer and sea ice is covering less and less area every year. This is good news for at least one group of men, adventurers looking to put their names in the record books. Two weeks ago we profiled the start of the…
Why haven't you tried it yet? Sure, it looks awfully hard and it can be difficult to grasp the basics, but once you master riding on one wheel, whole new experiences will open up to you.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V0roSxMKeBM The men's road race is one of the first events following Friday night's Olympic Opening Ceremony, and it presents Great Britain with one of its best chances at a medal. Four of the five racers on the British team racked up a total of seven stage wins at this…
An exclusive clip of Les Stroud in Mexico from the new season of Survivorman. For more on Stroud, read this interview in which he shares the most dangerous moment he’s experienced in the wild.
Further poster. Photo: Teton Gravity Research Earlier this week, Jeremy Jones and TGR released the trailer for the movie Further. It's the…
This might be the ultimate, unsanctioned, impromptu charity ride. This Saturday, July 28, for the second year running, Liquigas-Cannondale racer Ted King and 2009 U.S. Cyclocross National Champ Tim Johnson will undertake a low-key fundraiser ride. The event will raise money for the Colorado Red Cross in the wake of the…
We all live downstream. Photo: Flickr/Kevin Krejci Next week, tens of thousands of manufacturers, retailers, media and marketers of outdoor gear will convene in Salt Lake City for the Outdoor Retailer (OR) Summer Market. Among them will be many…
Want to look at maps on your tablet instead of your phone so that they're bigger and easier to comprehend? Trimble Outdoors just released its MyTopo Maps app for the Kindle Fire and other Android-powered tablets. Now you can plot your next outdoor adventure on the big…
In this weekly roundup, we scour the Web for our favorite long-form magazine and newspaper articles, collecting them here and on Longreads.com and Twitter. This installment focuses on the future of fast food, what it means to be an amateur, and all-things Olympic Games.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/bJY8GTV88j0 Gil Weiss free-soloing Blitzen Ridge in Rocky Mountain National Park. “Ugh, not 2 more,” wrote one commenter on SuperTopo yesterday in response to news that two climbers from Boulder had gone missing…
An exclusive clip of Les Stroud in Norway from the new season of Survivorman. For more on Stroud, read this interview in which he shares the most dangerous moment he’s experienced in the wild.
Earlier this week, video surfaced of 42-year-old French stuntman Jean-Yves Blondeau flying down Tianmen Mountain at speeds of more than 50 miles per hour in a 34-wheeled rollerblading suit. It took him just under 20 minutes to navigate 99 turns and…
Photo: Shimano/Cor Vos The Tour de France fizzled to a finish on Sunday, and for the first time in a decade I scarcely cared. That's because watching this Tour was as interesting as watching Lance Armstrong's U.S. Postal/Discovery machine dismantle the race for seven straight years.
Captain Don Voss, marine pollution from a diver's POV. Photos: Marine Cleanup Initiative, Inc. When he returned, wounded, from serving in Vietnam, doctors told Don Voss he wouldn't walk again. But Voss, now a 64-year-old ship captain, turned to swimming as therapy. With more…
South Korean flag accidentally displayed
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G42B4uq12cM Recently, Red Bull profiled Hawaii-based surf photographer Zak Noyle in a two-part, 24-minute show called Momentum. Noyle is one of those photographers you see ducking under big waves just after getting shots of surfers flying through barrels. In the…
Project Angel Thunder is the largest search-and-rescue exercise in the world, involving 1,700 pilots, commandos, and recovery specialists training in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico to save your ass in some impossibly bad situations. Embed Brian Mockenhaupt discovers that while the scenarios are pure fiction, the game is deadly serious.
An interview with the man who did the impossible: Surf from Israel to Lebanon and even survive a brief stint in Syria
The goal: Cover 15 mountains in six days. If Crawford succeeds, she'll hold the record for the fastest female ascent of California's 14ers
SLYC sailing. Photo: Katie Arnold For the past three weeks, I’ve been writing these columns from my parents’ cottage in Ontario. My mother grew up on the lake, and I’ve been coming every summer since I was born. In the 60 years since my grandparents bought…
Toy Soldier Productions just released the trailer to their new ski and snowboard flick, Act Natural. The movie shows a host of freeskiers and snowboarders testing their skills on slopes, concrete, and rails from California to Minnesota. The movie…
Michael Kodas is chasing the ever-growing forest inferno all throughout Colorado
When a YouTube video showing a "big-ass" shark snatching a tasty red drum off the end of a fishing pole went viral last week, Chris Dixon, who lives on the water in the area, wondered if he should be more concerned. He spoke to Arnold Postell, a senior biologist at the South Carolina Aquarium, to find out.
After years of warnings and years of inaction, our forests are on fire and the blaze should only continue to grow.
Playing Eschaton, a game dreamed up by David Foster Wallace, is like fighting out World War III with tennis balls. It's also very complicated to play—or write about.
3rd Place: Meandering Mississippi Landsat 7 Acquired 5/28/2003, Small, blocky shapes of towns, fields, and pastures surround the graceful swirls and whorls of the Mississippi River, the largest river system in North America. Countless oxbow lakes and cutoffs accompany the meandering river south of Memphis, Tennessee,…
The latest film in the Of Souls+Water series profiles surfer Christopher Peterson. For more, check out this interview with series director Skip Armstrong, of Forge Motion Pictures .
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=P9IrVHoTwjc Three separate ski and snowboard tours joined forces last week to become one international series for freeriding. The Swatch Freeride World Tour, the Freeskiing World Tour, and The North Face Masters of Snowboarding will become the Swatch Freeride World…
Here's a different kind of ski flick. Chalk'n Ski is a one-minute short that took more than 20 hours to make. Chris Dickey of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, directed artist Emily Feuz as she sketched out ski scenes…
Originally published 9/9/2009 Outside's photo editor Amy Silverman has kept a book by her computer for a month or so now called The California Surf Project. More than once when I've been down in her office I've thumbed through it. Each time I find a…
In September of 2009, I interviewed photographer Chris Burkard about his photo book, The California Surf Project. Burkard set off on a 50-day road trip to capture the California surf scene with…
In this weekly roundup, we scour the Web for our favorite long-form magazine and newspaper articles, collecting them here and on Longreads.com and Twitter. This installment focuses on the weight we're gaining, the addictions we're suffering from, the encroachments of me
A new documentary from Walking on Water films looks at the life of blind surfer Derek Rabelo.
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This illegal deer stand is bigger than most Manhattan studios. Photo: St. Louis County Land and Minerals Dept. Deer hunters wait. They find a good spot in the forest, and they wait. To get a better vantage, they might climb into a tree or build a…