14 year-old Daniel Tisi show some skills all over the mountain. Edit by Jackson Tisi.

Doctors said she had a small chance of survival—but a special bond with a horse named Savannah helped her pull off a miracle

Fallen trees outnumber fallen men in Ron Rash’s fourth novel, but not by much: The title character, a pretty young timber baroness who carries a rattlesnake-eating eagle on her arm and is about as sweet as Lady Macbeth, sees to that. Set in 1920s North Carolina, on the front lines…

A quarter-century after his now classic record of a trip down America’s two-laners, Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon is back in the driver’s seat. And though he’s given up sleeping in his ’75 Ford Econoline for places more along the lines of a Holiday Inn Express, he’s still a helluva…

Outside magazine, April 1995 Bicycling: Straighten Up and Ride Right The National Mountain Bike Patrol aims to help fat-tire riders buff a tarnished image By Florence Williams Ross Blasman hates to admit it, but he looks like a cop, and when the balding, 200-pound Californian tells…

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Photograph by Ivan Mlinaric via Flickr The demand for soybeans has grown greatly worldwide–up 14-fold since 1950–which means more of the Amazon rainforest is being cleared to accommodate more crops, EurActiv.com reports. Soybeans are the biggest thing in agriculture in Brazil, and they require a lot of land to grow…

TURN, TURN, TURN Good for Groomed Runs OK, so most of mainland Europe is still heavily into caaarvvink. That’s a good thing, because it means they’ll keep making detuned race skis like the powerful SX 12pb. In addition to a wood-like synthetic layup buttressed by sheets of fiberglass,…

Outside magazine, March 1995 Ride With Pride: Careful, Buster Urban attitude advice from an honest cop By Sara Corbett City cyclists have an attitude problem,” says Sergeant Richard Green, a bicycle patrol officer in Santa Barbara, California. “They think, ‘Look at us, we’re not polluting!’ and…

Wiping with toilet paper is gross and wasteful. I found a better way.