€270,000 Worth of Shimano Bike Parts Stolen in Dramatic Heist

Bike parts become big-time lure for big-time thieves. | Continue reading


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The Bizarre, Painful Appeal of Off-Width Climbing

Off-width climbing is antithetical to not only the sexiness of climbing, but the sexiness of almost all adventure sports. | Continue reading


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PNW’s Dropper Posts Are Great—So How About Their Bike Apparel?

PNW, famous for its excellent dropper posts, wades into the apparel pool. | Continue reading


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The Fog

Just a somber but beautiful meditation on the eerie power of fog. | Continue reading


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Reservation? You Don’t Need No Stinking Reservation for Yosemite’s Firefall

Here's how to see one of Yosemite's most spectacular spectacles. | Continue reading


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And Now a Random AMC Eagle 4×4 Ad

A car way before its time creeps into the spotlight. | Continue reading


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Imagine a Great River, Flowing Free

Some environmental groups and water honchos have sponsored a “Rewilding of Glen Canyon” contest, with the winner getting $4,000 “and counting.” The contest’s goal is to reconnect the Colorado River above and below a dismantled dam, to restore the beauty of a glorious place now su … | Continue reading


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Candide Thovex Threading the Eyes of Needles

When it's pretty tight. | Continue reading


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What the Scandies Love About Chopping and Stacking Wood

Isn't it good? | Continue reading


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When Everything Goes Sideways, Ocean Rower Aaron Carotta Just Keeps Going

Every so often you come across a true story so wild you couldn’t make it up. Aaron Carotta’s story was one of those. In 2016 he started down the Missouri River with $37 and a borrowed canoe. He made it to Florida 233 days later, which is not nearly so remarkable as the way that [ … | Continue reading


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The Wonders of Kamchatka

Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula is a wonderland of volcanic peaks, massive river systems, and long beaches, some with excellent surf. Something like North America’s British Columbia, but colder, starker. This short film shows the possibilities. | Continue reading


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Easy Satay Fried Noodles

One thing we always take with us when camp cooking is our beloved Mi Goreng instant fried noodles. They’re an easy, quick, delicious meal that’s full of the | Continue reading


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Eddie Bauer’s Making Apparel Designed for Sit-Skiers and That’s Awesome

Sit skiers, rejoice. | Continue reading


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Anne LaBastille May Have Out-Thoreau’d Thoreau

The blonde Daisy Duke-wearing, tough-as-nails mountain woman charmed and inspired. | Continue reading


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7 Peaceful Days Alone in Yosemite Backcountry

This is the best kind of outdoor video to have on in the background of a cold February day. Just a h | Continue reading


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Andrew Skurka Offering Scholarships For His Backcountry Trips

Guided trips no longer need to be only for those with lots of expendable cash. | Continue reading


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Specialized Looks Like They’re Ready to Bypass Local Bike Shops

Whither the local bike shop? | Continue reading


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Please Enjoy a Couple Minutes of Wildlife Using a Beaver Dam Bridge

Where would we be without beavers? No idea really, I’m not an ecologist. But beaver dams are very cool, very important for the health of | Continue reading


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The Film That Dares to Ask—Can Animals and Bikes Safely Coexist?

Whether you’ve thought about this a million times or zero times, these two dudes will have you thinking about it at least for the two-plus minute duration of this video. Photo: Igor Flek/Unsplash | Continue reading


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So You Wanna Start Trail Running With Your Dog

How to trail run with a dog, or a human, depending on your point of view. | Continue reading


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How Do We Really Know How Much Snow Has Fallen, Anyway?

It's far more complicated than simply "measuring," you wiseacres out there. | Continue reading


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Get These Ostriches to the Olympics

Triple Jump, directed by Hideyuki Tanaka, came out, hmm, years ago, can’t remember when, exactly. How’d they make these ostriches look so real? They strapped skis to real-life ostriches, that’s how! Or, wait, hang on, we’re being told it was with computer animation. Hmm, well, ha … | Continue reading


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The Backpacking Sc-Fi Author Who Writes Weirdly Hopeful Dystopia

He backpacks and he pens hopeful glimpses of a life in a climate-ravaged future. | Continue reading


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The Surfboard Is a Piece of Art

Handmade, soul-approved. | Continue reading


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Long-Live the Ten Dollar Bike Multitool

It works, it never fails, it's ten bucks. Thanks, Park Tool. | Continue reading


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The Science Behind Aesop’s Menagerie of Wild Animals

In “Aesop’s Animals,” zoologist Jo Wimpenny provides a guided tour of animal behavior drawn from the classic fables. | Continue reading


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Why I’m Giving Up Trail Runners for Hiking Boots

In which the author decides the focus on lightweight gear doesn't extend to his feet. | Continue reading


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There Are Ghosts At Fortress Mountain

Fortress Mountain was a cherished ski resort in Alberta until it closed in 2004. Today, a couple lifts and a lodge are still there, eerie watchers over a silent mountain. Ghosts remain, however, whispers of the culture left behind. | Continue reading


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Good News: Western Monarchs Are Rebounding Big Time

2021's count of the endangered butterfly saw a 100 fold increase in western monarch numbers. | Continue reading


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Norman Dyhrenfurth Made First American Ascent of Everest a Smashing Success

Norman Dyhrenfurth's planning and drive got the U.S. on top of the world. | Continue reading


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The Waves Have Reached Ludicrous Levels

Just absolutely perfect giant waves. Like from a cartoon. | Continue reading


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Fed Court Blocks Natural Gas Pipeline From Crossing Appalachian Trail

The USFS and BLM ignored environmental impacts of the Mountain Valley Pipeline through a national forest, says federal court. | Continue reading


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Grateful for Bikes and Mental Health

Mountain bike therapy. | Continue reading


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19-Year-Old Belgian Is Youngest Woman to Fly Solo Around the World

Zara Rutherford flew from Belgium to Belgium, via the entire globe. | Continue reading


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Would You Pay $50,000 For This Incredible Toyota Chinook?

This one of a kind camper build, or a brand new Tacoma? | Continue reading


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An Ode to the Pulaski, the Hero’s Tool

If you've ridden or a hiked a trail, you've experienced the craft of this versatile workhorse. | Continue reading


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Ride Through Half a Century of Mountain Bike Evolution With Hans Rey

Mountain bikes are just so much better than they used to be. | Continue reading


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When Recreationists Have Too Much Clout on Public Lands

This may be a surprising story. It begins with a working group trying to save the last native bighorn sheep of Idaho’s and Wyoming’s Teton Range. Last fall it reached agreement after years of effort. The coalition recommended closing just over 20,000 acres of high-country public … | Continue reading


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REI Employees in Manhattan File Papers to Unionize

Employees at Manhattan’s SoHo store have filed papers to unionize with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. 116 of them, to be precise. After a difficult couple of years dealing with closures, and mandates, and skyrocketing housing costs, and inflation, and, and, and … | Continue reading


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Curt, Your New Favorite Surfer, and, Quite Possibly, Favorite Person

Curt Harper is a Southern California legend, at least among the young, thriving competitive surfing community. At the time this film was made, he was 50, and the most stoked grommet at the beach. The film is a few years old, but Curt is still out there, living his dream, mentorin … | Continue reading


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Sweeney’s Bothy, Isle of Eigg, Scotland

King Sweeney was a nudist, exiled Gaelic royal from the 7th century, who lived as much with nature as his human frailties would allow. He wrote poetry celebrati | Continue reading


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Greenlanders, From Their Own Perspective

Greenland history told by Greenlanders, not bloviating adventurers. | Continue reading


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Clean Up Trash at Your Trail, Get a Discount on Bike Gear

Pack a bag of trash, save on a new bike bag. | Continue reading


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VW Says Electric Microbus Reveal Will Be March 9—Really, They Swear

After what seems like years of VW trolling fans, the electric microbus is set to be revealed next month. For real. | Continue reading


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Galen Rowell, the Light Bringer

The pioneering climber and groundbreaking photographer was a man of the Sierra. | Continue reading


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Bikepacking, With Castles

Not all bikepacking trips need to be f | Continue reading


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How ‘Adventure’ Aaron Carotta Paddled 5,000 Miles On Box Wine and SpaghettiOs

It’s fair to say that Aaron Carotta was in a bad place when he started down the Missouri River. After a cancer diagnosis in 2008 he’d remade himself as “Adventure Aaron,” traveling to more than 80 countries, sharing his travels on social media and parlaying them into self-produce … | Continue reading


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If the Dress Code Doesn’t Make Room for These Down Pants, We Can’t Come

Down pants, sure, but these move and actually look cool. | Continue reading


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