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Wallpaper Wednesday: New Zealand Dew

by steve casimiro on May 16, 2012 · 0 comments

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This week’s free wallpaper of morning dew in New Zealand’s Milford Sound is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes. Enjoy! 1280 x 800 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920×1200 Photo Casimiro

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Solar-Powered Catamaran Makes 1st Circumnavigation

by pete thomas grindtv on May 16, 2012 · 0 comments

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Turanor PlanetSolar, a futuristic-looking 100-foot catamaran, last week became the first vessel to circumnavigate the planet exclusively on power generated by the sun. The voyage, which began and ended in Monaco, lasted 19-plus months and included layovers in 28 countries, which were designed to promote the importance of solar energy. Traveling on an equatorial route [...]

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The Daily Bike, May 16, 2012

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Unless you understand Portuguese, this one might be a little baffling. It turns out, it’s a Fiat public service ad against drunk driving that says, “Now you see it. Now you don’t”. Slightly creepy and of questionable effectiveness, but hey, thanks for the thought.

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Street Artist Pastes Healing in Navajo Nation

by sarah gilman high country news on May 16, 2012 · 4 comments

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Editor’s note: I first came upon the art of Jetsonorama when driving across the Navajo Nation en route to a desert adventure. It was plastered on the side of a closed trinket kiosk – bold and striking and unexpected, yet completely rooted in its place. Iconoclastic and unexplained, more than a year passed before I [...]

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Dirtbag Gourmet: Margaritas with Climber Kelly Cordes

by brendan leonard on May 16, 2012 · 0 comments

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Climber and writer Kelly Cordes has put up bold routes in some of the world’s most remote ranges, edited the American Alpine Journal, and embraced an atypical post-climb beverage: the margarita. I asked him why. I also asked him to share some of his personal recipes, because while it takes good taste to find a [...]

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Links We Like, May 16, 2012

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HELICOPTER PILOT AND ALPINIST SIMONE MORO is one of the busier guys in Everest Base Camp. In addition to acclimatizing for his attempt to climb Lhotse, descend to the South Col, and then top Everest without returning to Base Camp, he’s flown numerous rescue missions, including plucking his friend, photographer Cory Richards, after health issues. [...]

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Shelter Co. Is A Sweet Way to Camp

by steve casimiro on May 16, 2012 · 3 comments

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Each of the last two years, I’ve written a feature story for Sunset magazine on camping, and it’s always an interesting experience because the Sunset reader is mostly about thread count and I’m more about simply trying to find a leeward spot on the ground for my sleeping bag. This year’s story was pretty cool, [...]

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Fracking, Congress Endanger America’s Rivers

American Rivers today announced its annual list of Most Endangered Rivers, topped by America’s River, the Potomac, neighboring the U.S. legislature that’s rolling back measures to protect U.S. waterways. The organization, who last year celebrated the high-profile removal of dams on Washington State’s Elwha River and White Salmon River, releases a list of its top [...]

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The Daily Bike, May 15, 2012

Essay: A race number is more than just a number.

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Declination: Dancing With Unexploded Bombs in Laos

A few days ago I crawled off the plane to England in a state of total exhaustion after nearly a month in Vietnam and Laos filming a program for the BBC. The show, due to air on BBC2 this month, tells the story of two women driving a section of the legendary Ho Chi Minh [...]

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The List: 10 Famous Bears

Bears are icons of wilderness. Even if you don’t love them, you don’t dislike them. We celebrate them as mascots, stuffed animals, cartoon characters, and Muppets. If you’re lucky, you’ve seen one in the wild, from a distance. Here’s our breakdown of famous bears we might hang out with. 1. Bart the Bear Who: 9’6” [...]

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Links We Like, May 15, 2012

A TUNNEL UNDER THE TETON MOUNTAINS? Sure, for $400 million a mile. It ain’t gonna happen, but that doesn’t mean Jackson, Driggs, and Victor residents aren’t fantasizing about a road under Teton Pass, an idea that was discussed at a recent Wyoming Department of Transportation meeting. The benefits would be immediate for drivers commuting over [...]

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Why You Should Row Across the Atlantic

There’s a guideline in storytelling that you should show, not tell — don’t tell people that you’re tired, show the conditions that made you tired. In theory, you create a more powerful, visceral tale. But that’s only in theory. In this video about four guys rowing across the Atlantic in 45 days, Alistair Humphreys tells [...]

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Gear Review: Chris King Coffee Tamper

Our favorite Chris King component isn’t made for biking. It’s made for coffee.

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Yellowstone’s Grizzlies are More Dangerous Than Glacier’s

Yellowstone has seen a nearly 50 percent increase in conflict between bears and humans in the past five years: A new report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service comparing Yellowstone with Glacier shows that in 2011 there were 17 people charged by grizzlies in Glacier, while in Yellowstone 62 were charged — nearly four [...]

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