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Here are two water videos to kick off what looks to be a hot weekend across much of the U.S.. The first is from Shasta Boyz productions. It's the seventh of seven trailers leading up to their new film, Slippery When Wet. This time the featured athlete…
Distance running camps vie for U.S. supremacy
Inside Floyd Landis’s clandestine campaign to torment his former boss
52-year-old cyclist claims French title over all-comers
It allows you to shoot first, focus later.
The World Bank gives Madagascar $52-million
 The Emakumeen Bira doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But this hilly five-stage, four-day UCI-sanctioned race through Spanish Basque country, held annually since 1992, is one of the most important events in women’s professional cycling—the last big race before the Giro d’Italia Femminile, the Tour de France…
Tim DeChristopher has to wait just a little longer to learn his fate. Yesterday, the Justice Department announced that DeChristopher, the Salt Lake City-based activist who disrupted a federal oil and gas auction in December 2008 by bidding $1.8 million on parcels of land in eastern Utah, would be sentenced…
Byliner.com becomes the Pandora of long reads
West Buttress Route on Denali After Everest, Denali was the climb I was most concerned about for the 7 Summits Climb for Alzheimer’s: Memories are Everything. You see, it’s complicated. Dedicating my Everest summit to my mom and all the Alzheimer’s moms out there will…
Cheaters would be kept from work as managers, mechanics.
(Noa Ginella on his way to 1st place in the SUP cross.) Last week I went to the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, Colorado, to standup paddleboard in whitewater rapids. It’s hard to explain why whitewater SUPing is so…
Admit that you’re taking your 10-month-old baby rafting and most people will look at you like that’s the craziest idea they’ve ever heard. And between the water and the wilderness, it can seem majorly daunting to pull off a DIY river trip with young children in tow. But…
Tour De France Preview: Doping scandals or no doping scandals, we still love the Tour. Here's why you should, too.
Slopes at Squaw Valley and Mt. Bachelor to reopen July 2-4
Lorie Karnath, president of the Explorers Club
On August 18, 1992, Chrisopher McCandless died alone in a bus in the Alaskan backcountry. Before his stay in the bus that others now visit as a pilgrimage, he journeyed all over North America. This gallery features some of the photos and notes from his ramblings. To read more notes and view more photos from Christopher McCandless, go to christophermccandless.info.
GC contender Soler airlifted with brain trauma
Before heading up to Alaska, Christopher McCandless spent time exploring the Western U.S. The following video clip highlights some of that journey, with narration courtesy of Hal Holbrook. For more about Christopher McCandless, check out the Back to the Wild DVD.
Mechanic Scott Haupert shows you what to pack before you hit the black top on your racer. Frankie Flats Repair Service, Santa Fe, NM…
Guide Chad Hepburn gives beginners tips on kayak selection.
Canadian freeskier Dana Flahr catches big air in Mount Aspiring National Park.
Outside senior editor Grayson Schaffer joins Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker and friends for some heli-skiing. Or not.
How to cook the ultimate dessert in a dutch oven.
Walker finds his first steady supply of food: raw mollusks.
The Australian pro surfer rides 20-foot waves and boards down mountains.
Tony Nester of Ancient Pathways, a.k.a The Survival Guru, shows you a primitive method of food procurement.
Sand ants and crabs nibble on Walker as he struggles with sleep in the jungle.
The 26 year-old Hawaiian surfs frigid waves and then heli-boards.
Tony Nester of Ancient Pathways, a.k.a. The Survival Guru, shows you the correct way to put out a camp fire.
It ain't easy to eat a coconut, as the castaway discovers.
Mechanic Frank Sotomayor gives instruction on adjusting suspension sag.
A look back at how Kelly Slater surfed to his 10th ASP World Tour victory.
The Swede carves long lines around outcrops on South Island slopes.
The Spanish rider has IOC-head Rogge's approval, but he's not out of the woods yet.
Tony Nester of Ancient Pathways, a.k.a. The Survival Guru, shows you how to carve food paddles.
Combine a 55-gallon drum and shopping cart to make the ultimate grill.
Fire eludes Walker as he uses the bow and drill method.
Cold-water distance swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh looks to set another record by making his way across a glacial lake. By Grayson Schaffer…
The Salt Lake City gap-jump honcho skies over outcrops…
Pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones shares some advice for snowboarding in the backcountry.
Scientists predict the biggest Dead Zone ever.