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Andy Maser and his team have released the second video in the Wild Love series, a collection of adventure shorts on love, loss, and passion for living. The video is a profile of ultrarunner Krissy Moehl. After winning the…
Photo: marcopako /Flickr Everything you need to know about tonight's Olympic primetime coverage—without knowing what actually happened. WOMEN'S TEAM GYMNASTICSThe U.S. women come in looking for their first team gold since 1996’s “Magnificent Seven.” Can they become the—sorry Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard,…
The Russians won't win every medal, but they should
The badminton of gymnastics
Climbers have a lot to look forward to in spring 2013. Check out the gear you’ll be taking to the crag or cliff next year in this, our first preview post leading up to the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City.
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.
Whether you’re catching a wave, splashing in the nearest stream, or chilling at the beach, if you’re a Patagonia fan, you’ll soon have eight new styles of board shorts in 45 different color combinations to wear for the occasion
The best way to beat record high temperatures: spend as much time in the water as possible. Here are a few items to be showcased at the Outdoor Retailer show meant to help enhance your ocean experience.
Your body is 98 percent water. Keep your cells happy and hydrated with these new water-replenishing packs for cyclists and runners that will debut at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City.
Luke Wright takes a ride on Bolivia's Yungas Loop
What was that hand signal Vavra Hradilek threw in the kayak slalom? It was a pretend bag of excrement.
Never worry about being stuck in the wilderness with nothing to eat again—as long as there is a healthy river nearby
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…
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…
Your body is 98 percent water. Keep your cells happy and hydrated with these new water-replenishing packs for cyclists and runners that will debut at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City. GEIGERRIG BIKE RIG Geigerrig Hydration Packs made a splash last year with the introduction of their air pressure-powered…
Matt From London/Flickr The 2012 Olympics kicked off on Saturday—if you don't count soccer, which you should—and a lot of things happened. It's not easy to keep up with it all, especially since NBC's streams have been especially screwy, so here are the…
For whatever reason, NBC is refusing to show the majority its primetime-scheduled Olympic events live. Well, they're showing them on their hitch-ridden, computer-crashing website, but they're not playing most of the marquee events when they happen. Maybe it's working (numbers are on a record pace) or maybe it's just…
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…
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…
The best stories, videos, and photos I didn't post—until now. OLYMPICS A sprint and a leap into unknown, The New York Times One of the most dangerous roads to the Olympics, The Christian Science Monitor Meet…
There is a man named "Teddy Bear," and he could kill you
The name pretty much says it all
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.
I'm gearing up for an upcoming trip to the Himalayas, but my family isn’t so psyched for me to go. Should I invest in a satellite phone?
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…
Further poster. Photo: Teton Gravity Research Earlier this week, Jeremy Jones and TGR released the trailer for the movie Further. It's 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…
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…
Les Stroud in Norway. Photo: Discovery After almost a four-year absence, 50-year-old survival expert Les Stroud will return as Survivorman on Sunday August 19, at 8 p.m. Eastern. Earlier this year, Stroud traveled to the mountains of Norway…
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.
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.
Last week, we published a list of the top 10 United States Olympians to follow on Twitter. We also broke down the social media guidelines at the Games and threw in some…
It's hockey on a field—except, different
The U.S. isn't competing, and the Soviet Union has the most all-time medals, so why watch?
The latest gadgets collect reams of training data. Here are the metrics that matter.
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.
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…
By Elizabeth Eilers Sullivan As I wrote about in my last post, yoga can help kids develop flexibility, strength, agility, balance, and body awareness. When teaching little yogis, it’s important not to worry too much about proper poses or “doing it right.” It’s more about exposing them to…
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
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…
I saw a Groupon for a trip to a local infrared sauna. How’s that different from the dry sauna at my gym, and will it help my achy knees?
Men, women, spouses, ex-lovers, and a 71-year-old: all competing against each other
China, China, and China
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
An interview with the man who did the impossible: Surf from Israel to Lebanon and even survive a brief stint in Syria
The latest addition to Metolius's SafeTech line, the Patriot is a lightweight, minimalist harness that weighs in at just 14 oz.
The best way to beat record high temperatures: spend as much time in the water as possible. Here are a few items to be showcased at the Outdoor Retailer show meant to help enhance your ocean experience. BELLYAK FREQUENCY A speedy rotomolded plastic bodyboat designed for joyriding rivers, oceans…
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…
Gunther Holtorf left Germany with his wife in 1989 for an 18-month tour of Africa in an old Mercedes Benz G Wagon. Once they got on the road, the couple never stopped traveling. They ignored hotels and restaurants to save money, and visited everything from Everest Base Camp to the…
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.
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.
There's more here than meets the, um, bullseye
After years of warnings and years of inaction, our forests are on fire and the blaze should only continue to grow.
I've heard conflicting things about synthetics and their ability to keep me cool. What should I wear while running in this brutal heat?
Where in Colorado can I learn to stand-up paddleboard in whitewater?
On June 5, Valery Rozov made news when it was announced he had scored a world record for the highest wingsuit jump from a mountain on record. The 47-year-old extreme athlete had jumped from a height of 21,063…
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,…