In 24-hour mountain-bike races, riders bond over singletrack and sleep deprivation. What's not to like?

OK, one of them has a little bit of pumpkin in it. But that doesn't mean it's not really damn good.

You may not be a pro skier or climber, but at least you can train like one. Mountain sports coach Rob Shaul and his students share how they prepare for the peaks.

Combined ski areas would create the largest resort in California

2011 Whitewater Grand Prix from Tribe Rider on Vimeo. The inaugural Whitewater Grand Prix is over. For two weeks, 25 top kayakers competed on Quebec's biggest whitewater–and survived. Dane Jackson, the 17-year-old phenom and son of whitewater patriarch Eric Jackson, took home first place, inching out Canadian…

The Portuguese water dog selected as the Obama family pet nearly four years ago has turned out just fine, thank you very much. We spoke to Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz, his trainer, to find out more about her methods.

Summer's best timepieces play hard, no matter what you throw at them.

Becomes first person to reach the top alone in January

Food for thought, at La Montanita Co-op. All poems courtesy of Snow Poems Project, Santa Fe. It didn’t exactly come as a shocker: 2012 was the hottest and driest year on record. But winter isn’t dead yet. Literally or metaphorically. There’s fresh stuff under the boards from the Sierras…

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