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First-time 100-miler and returning champion take top spots
Gone South is a film from Vita Brevis Films about finding adventure on two wheels in Southern Utah. Director Skylar Nielsen says, “the open road provides a pathway to the uncontrolled spirit, a state of being that is universally felt yet so challenging to capture through a…
Citing danger to wildlife in proposed land swap
Includes time trial, road race, and circuit stages
The Mavic Trans-Provence, called the “original alpine MTB rally,” is one of a kind. It's a week-long mountain bike race consisting of true mountain wilderness and a varied terrain from the High Alps to the Mediterranean Sea. These highlights from Day 3 of the race paint a good…
Red Bulls posts Brad Domke big-wave skim video
Provides money for federal, state, and local recreation
The next installment of Street View comes to the 3,000 vertical feet of Yosemite's El Capitan.
Beginning this June 16, six dancers and a nine-person support crew headed into Yosemite’s wilderness for ten days of hiking and pirouetting.
The country's Sandinista government has cut a deal with a reclusive Chinese businessman willing to spend $50 billion on a larger-than-life transport waterway. There are a few unanswered questions, starting with whether Nicaraguans really want it and how much priceless habitat would be wrecked. Traveling the proposed route by motorcycle, boat, and boots, the author hunts for answers.
For more than 25 years, the Bandaloop dance troupe has performed on high-altitude sideways stages, from Seattle’s Space Needle to skyscrapers in South Korea. This June, they took their act to the granite walls of the Yosemite backcountry. Here, a quartet rehearses on the flanks of 8,500-foot Mount Watkins.
Fast food chain marketing healthy lifestyle
The Nature Conservancy is experimenting with innovative strategies to beat back invasive weeds in one of the country’s biodiversity hotspots.
Day before Denmark releases anti-doping report
An overview of the weather and climate patterns contributing to the dry conditions
Multicity event aimed at preventing childhood drowning
Few people in Texas know of the Devil's River, and fewer have ventured into the most remote river in the state. Down the Devil follows the Texas-born musical duo of Jamestown Revival, the crew from The Noble Lab and Huckberry as they dropped their kayaks, fishing gear and camping equipment…
unReal, a new film from Teton Gravity Research and Anthill Films, aims to transport viewers to a place beyond the real world into the imagination of some of the best mountain bikers on the planet. The unReal world tour kicks…
The famous rock climber put away the trad gear for a research project with UC Berkeley on the California coast in which he pulled samples from the 700-year-old trunk of a giant redwood
A group of eccentric engineers flocked to a dried-up lakebed in California to race for the championship title of a 117-year-old sport you’ve never heard of
Chad Brown put down a gun and picked up a fly-fishing rod. The Navy veteran turned gear designer now wants kids and vets to heal each other on the great American waters that saved his life.
PTSD survivor and U.S. Navy veteran turned gear designer Chad Brown has a passion for fly fishing. He says it's his medicine, and now he wants inner-city youth and fellow vets to experience the sport's healing power for themselves.
Ag Department notes “substantial challenges” to fire budget
To ski the world’s highest and most remote peaks, O’Neill starts her days many hours before the sun comes up
SUPs are a great way to explore your nearest lake or coastline. Just don’t get caught off guard when the tides change.
American downhiller coasts to victory
What happens when we start a fire and we can't contain it?
The risks are worth it to show my kids one of the wildest places on the planet
Nearly 50 percent of voters oppose hosting the games
Borneo tribes say stunt was disrespectful
Faces scrutiny in light of doping claims against coach Alberto Salazar
Olympic cyclists Taylor and Davis Phinney have dealt with intense pressure, a near career-ending crash and a life-altering disease. Hear more about how they learned to embrace adversity in this short film from Lululemon.
Will advise park service on zero-landfill practices
Climbing competition was part of the GoPro Mountain Games
Universal Pictures on Thursday released the official trailer for ‘Everest,’ an upcoming film based on the ill-fated 1996 climbing expeditions in which eight climbers died.
