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Overlandia: Driving a 1936 Rolls Royce Across India

by steve casimiro on May 23, 2013 · 5 comments

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Rupert Grey is making a good run at the world’s most interesting man. After graduating Wellington College in the UK in 1965, he moved to Canada and worked as a lumberjack, cowboy, and roughneck. He came home, got a law degree, then became a paratrooper. Between 1969 and 1972 he prospected for copper in the [...]

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15 Seconds: Driving Indian Creek, Utah

by steve casimiro on May 23, 2013 · 4 comments

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The hardest thing about driving through southern Utah’s Indian Creek is keeping your eyes on the road. All those splitters…the Simpsons clouds…the Six Shooters on the horizon…that’s why you should let someone else drive. *More or less. Probably more. Don’t be literal.

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Makers of Mountain Project Launch MTB Project

by brendan leonard on May 21, 2013 · 2 comments

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Starting in 2005 as a group of crowd-sourced rock climbing beta websites, MountainProject.com has grown to more than two million users and become a go-to resource for climbing route info across the U.S. and the world. Now, the producers of Mountain Project have announced a comprehensive user-driven website for mountain biking info at MTBProject.com. MTB [...]

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When Doug Tompkins first went to Argentina’s Perito Moreno National Park in 1992 to investigate the unclimbed south face of Cerro San Lorenzo, he and his climbing partners were blown away by the beauty and primeval rawness of the Lácteo River Valley — and shocked that it wasn’t part of the park. He vowed to [...]

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