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The newest recruit to Nike's Elite Trail Team talks about speed work, core strength, and why parenthood is not an excuse.
Ten travel-friendly products to take you from sun and surf to a night on the town.
Responding to drought with tanker trucks
Before researching this article, I had no idea that zip lines—incline-mounted cables that use gravity to enable said zipping—were also called death slides. It’s probably best I didn’t know this when I harnessed into the lines at Grouse Mountain to slide at nearly 50 miles an hour…
Scientists have known for years that rates of hypertension are higher in the winter and in countries farther from the equator, but they haven’t known why—until now. A new study from the universities of Southampton and Edinburgh suggests that exposure to sunlight plays a large role, by…
Running is so simple, but it gets expensive quickly. Ultrarunning especially can send gear geeks like myself into a buying frenzy. (I bought enough gear last year for the 50-mile North Face Endurance Challenge that I could have picked up a new pair of skis.) While all you really need…
Can beer concentrate compete with the real thing? Brent Rose puts two alcohol-packed flavors to the test.
Conservations want the iconic animals to roam free once again. But many ranchers believe rewilding is a really bad idea.
A lightweight, durable crampon for winter running and hiking
The flow is slow—and the psi way low—but Jon Billman's blimp-wheeled rig helped him beat back the worst sub-zero winter on record.
A new study indicates that climate change will bring the disease, and the bugs that carry it, previously uninfected areas.
One of the world’s best alpine racers, Aksel Lund Svindal, joins the Supervention crew in the beautiful Lyngen Alps in Norway. With a “nasty hit list” of big mountain lines, the crew captures some stunning footage for the film. Including: Eirik Finseth, Aksel Lund Svindal, and Åsmund Thorsen.
The Supervention crew heads to Terrace, British Columbia in search of some film-worthy powder. A behind the scenes look at some of their filming tools inclduing an drone-mounted RED. With James Heim, Asmund Thorsen, and Andreas, the team gets exactly what they were looking for. Field Productions presents The…
Looking for ways to make your MTB films better as the weather warms up? Here is a cool piece that lays out some useful tips, all while showing you how it’s done. A project from Filme von Draussen Workshop.
In recent years, the evidence has mounted in favor of forefoot running, but a new study suggests that the average runner should rethink his stride.
Having a child makes you reexamine the adventure lifestyle, especially when you're trapped in a storm at sea with a one-year-old.
Stop sputtering along in your Rent-a-Wreck. These new touring rigs will outfit your next road trip with style, power, and surprising economy.
A Canadian company wants you to believe that their nutrient-fortified, low-booze brew makes an awesome post-workout beverage. Should you buy in?
Used to be, you blew a knee and your options back to action were few—and long. But a fast-growing field of stem-cell therapy is ushering in a new, and much speedier, era of orthopedic recovery.
We’re inspired by days spent living boldly in pursuit of our passions. These are the Days You Remember. A new series from Mountain Hardwear.
Horizons are meant to be expanded. The first episode from Mountain Hardwear’s newest web series highlights the days you simply don’t forget. And maybe even encourages you to make time for more of them.
Urban challenges for skiers? How about an 8 kink? The crew failed countless times trying this 23 meter long rail with plenty of laughs and pain. Will they make it? Featuring Jesper Tjäder, Even Sigstad, Anders Backe and more. Field Productions presents The Making of Supervention Season 2. The…
Finding outdoor adventure in the Big Apple is easier than you think.
Is the heightened state of consciousness a chemical reaction or something more ineffable?
How the high price of down is changing the insulation market
There’s at least one potential benefit to extreme winter weather: Shivering appears to torch significant calories by converting energy-storing white fat to energy-burning brown fat. In a recent study, National Institutes of Health investigators subjected volunteers to various environments (including some really cold ones) and found that…
An extremely sophisticated, somewhat mystical process that will surprise you
This helmet not only protects you in a crash, it actually helps prevent an accident in the first place.
The biggest trend in American microbrewing is hangover-free, adventure-friendly sake. Kanpai!
A handful of entrepreneurs and nutritionists think it's time to start enhancing meat with the kind of healthy fat found in fish. And the new omega-3 beef is headed for a store near you.
The sole mission of a Spartan is the ability to conquer challenges as they appear. From start to finish, Spartans climb over 8 foot walls, navigate a Tyrolean traverse, and crawl under barbed wire, while running over irregular and gruelingly inhospitable terrain. “Spartan Races are designed to…
200,000 people applied to be apart of Mars One’s permanant human establsihment on the red planet. In December of 2013, roughly 1,000 applicants were accepted into the next round of qualifying. The project plans to send groups of four every two years, beginning in 2024. This film from Vita…
If you don’t just want to run on vacation, but you want to make running the vacation, book a running tour. There are two primary categories of tours: those tied to an event, such as a marathon, and those tied to a destination. A runner celebrates at Machu Picchu.
With a little help from Her Goopness Gwenyth Paltrow, here's how to steer your kids away from the Game Boy and into some garden-friendly activities for lifelong health.
Google wants to build the world’s best off-road map. And they want your help.
While most Americans probably can’t even imagine running 200 miles, a contingency of runners is eager to go the extra distance. So what will it take to make the endurance craze stick?
In 2007, Erden Eruç entered his 24-foot ocean rowing boat, the Calderdale, to start a journey that would take him around the world under his own power. It would become a five year and eleven day journey that would challenge him physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. From Castaway With Purpose.
February was a great month for snow, if you don’t believe us, watch this video. See what Parker White and Chris Logan get into the second episdoe from The Big Picture – Zero/One – Zero/Two.
In 2012, Jordan Manley, a respected action sports photographer and filmmaker, suffered a severe concussion. Performing some of the most mundane tasks would cause Manley to expereince horrible symptoms of his injury. He began taking #dailywalks and used Instagram and his iPhone to highlight brief moments of nature and beauty…
Filmed in four hours of complete darkness, wakeboarders hit jumps and perform tricks through clouds of smoke made by the emergency flares strapped to their boards. Filmed in Copenhagen Cable Park by Klaus Elmer.
The Oregon Desert Trail is an 800 mile route that stretches from the Oregon Badlands Wilderness to the Lake Owyhee Reservoir near the Idaho border. Last year, Sage Clegg became the first person to complete the route. This is her story. …
"Raising our baby girl is our new Everest."
Whether a byproduct of the “eat local” movement or simply an evolution of taste, beer is now fetishized like wine.
Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars states that Claudius intended to pass a law “‘allowing to all people the liberty of giving vent at table to any distention occasioned by flatulence,’ upon hearing of a person whose modesty, when under restraint, had nearly cost him his life.” Modern day…
Earlier this week, Kickstarter announced that it’s raised more than $1 billion—money that’s funded everything from failed expeditions to Zach Braff’s new movie. While the range of projects varies widely, there is one unifying theme when it comes to the crowdfunding website—hope. Kickstarter enables…
Full-suspension—and possibly 27.5 wheels—is the future of the cross-country race bike
Twenty-seven years ago, David Ewing Duncan wrote a magazine article about a secret tropical gem called Belize, inspiring a wave of adventure travelers that changed the tiny country forever. Braced for a few stabs of guilt, he went back with his son and found that paradise was different, but not completely lost.
As athletes, we are always trying to break walls, but sometime we end up breaking ourselves.