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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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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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Declination: Dancing With Unexploded Bombs in Laos

by ants bolingbroke-kent on May 15, 2012 · 0 comments

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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 Girls of Aspen, 1971

by steve casimiro on May 14, 2012 · 8 comments

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As good as things are today, the 1970s were the best decade for skiing and arguably the best town to be a skier was Aspen. Ketchum can make a damn good argument for it, but Aspen’s ski culture was a tour de force. Pro racers, hot dogs, starlets, dealers, Spider Sabich and Claudine Longet, Hunter [...]

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- The Girls of Aspen, 1971
  [slider_pro id="50"]As good as things are today, the 1970s were the best decade for skiing and arguably the best town to be a... »
- The Daily Bike, May 11, 2012
  Godøy, Norway, is one of the tens of thousands of islands that dot, speckle, and bejewel the Norwegian coastline, and though... »
- Declination: Getting Tubed on the Zambezi River
  Surfing river waves is typically a novelty — not quite as much of a stretch as snowboarding sand dunes, but still, not... »
- Mexican Town Battles Surf Media Exploitation
  For decades a few lucky ex-pats in Mexico have been trickling south from Puerto Escondido to a quiet fishing village in Oaxaca... »
- Wallpaper Wednesday: Whistler Woods Mountain Biking
  This week's free wallpaper of a riding on a foggy day in Whistler, B.C., is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes. The... »
- Declination: In Defense of Denver as Adventure Town
  A handful of Saturday mornings, I have driven out of Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood juggling a bowl of granola on my lap,... »
- The Daily Bike, May 3, 2012
  This stunning overhead shot of a pro road race in Australia is by Gregg Bleakney, who describes how it came about: "This... »
- Declination: Festival of Colors in Super Slow-Mo
  India knows how to party. The Hindu Holi festival celebrates the end of winter and arrival of spring, and it's one of the most... »
- Wallpaper Wednesday: Tarantula Nebula
  This mind-blowing image of the Tarantula Nebula is a combination of data from three sources: the Hubble and Spitzer space... »
- Declination: The Touring Bike as Conversation Starter
  I had never set foot in Texas before we started bicycling across it in February 2010. It took 18 days, El Paso to the Louisiana... »
- Wallpaper Wednesday: Dolomites Mountain Biking
  This week's free wallpaper of mountain biking in the Dolomite Mountains of northern Italy is provided here in a full range of... »
- A Video In Praise of Cross-Country Flow
  Wow, this might be a first: a cross-country mountain biking film that will inspire you to ride. Not only is it cross-country,... »
- A Solar System Movie to Awe You
  Working with public domain still images produced by NASA, Sander van den Berg created what looks like a slightly retrostalgic... »
- The Daily Bike, April 20, 2012
  Standing at the car, packing my Camelbak with a storm looming, I debated leaving the camera behind. How many times had I... »
- Weekend Cabin: The HemLoft, Whistler, B.C.
  [slider_pro id="44"]Like so many wonderful accomplishments, the HemLoft sprang from broken dreams. Joel Allen was in his mid... »
- A Day of Perfect Spring Powder
  While most of us were sleeping in, hunting Easter eggs, or worshipping their creator, Miss Darcy Turenne was getting after it... »
- Wallpaper Wednesday: Ethereal Wave
  This week's free wallpaper of a sparkling wave is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes. This shot is by Jason Murray,... »
- The Daily Bike, April 13, 2012
  Fisher Creek, Idaho. Where are you riding this weekend? Photo Casimiro... »
- Wallpaper Wednesday: Elephants, Masai Mara, Kenya
  This week's free wallpaper of a herd of elephants in Masai Mara, Kenya, is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes. This... »
- The List: 20 Awesome Coffee Shops in the West
  When I moved to the West from the Midwest in 2002, I remember thinking, Wow, coffee sure seems a lot more important here. Since... »
- Declination: Steinbeck’s Cross-Country Road Trip Vs. Kerouac’s
  In 1960, feeling he might not be long for this earth, John Steinbeck decided to travel across the length and breadth of America... »
- Wallpaper Wednesday: Redwoods
  This week's free wallpaper of foggy walk through through the Lady Bird Johnson Grove in Northern California is provided here in... »
- Behind the Photo: Art Brewer and Herbie Fletcher, 1976
  Famed surf photographer shot this image of Herbie Fletcher in 1976 at Maalaea, Maui, and it became instantly iconic. Here,... »
- Declination: When Yosemite Bears Cut Off Escape
  [caption id="attachment_41093" align="alignnone" width="660" caption="The author in pre-dawn light, unmolested by... »
- Declination: She Sleeps Outside Almost Every Night…in Antarctica
  Kerry Kells says she gets cold easily. Maybe she discovered that during the 169 days she's spent sleeping in her tent since... »
- All Hail Front Suspension
  This is sick. Alejandro Paz flashes this do-not-fall cliffside singletrack in San Pedro de Casta, Peru, at about 10,000 feet.... »
- Declination: Aboard the Southern Cross in Indonesia
  Keegan Gibbs has a film degree under his belt, but this video from a surfing trip through Indonesia aboard a ship called the... »
- The Ski Patrol of La Grave, France
  The word has been out on La Grave for a generation or three of glissement bums, but how many of you really, truly know this... »
- One of the Longest Wave Rides You’ll Ever See
  It's fair to say that not many surfers have ridden one wave this long. It's also fair to say that after seeing this, many... »
- Declination: Assembling a Yurt In Just Two Minutes
  If I was going to build a cabin, I'd start with the land. Then would come a yurt, relatively inexpensive, extremely low impact,... »
- A Small Washington Town Rallies to Save Its Fire Lookout
  On a blustery summer night, the Red Top Tavern in Darrington, Washington, is nearly empty. A neon Hamm's beer sign illuminates... »
- Weekend Cabin: Austin, Texas
  [slider_pro id="40"]Take a passing glance at the outside of the cabin at Austin Heaven and you could be fooled into thinking... »
- Declination: Delivering a Mercedes in Turkey, 1968
  Turkey, 1968, by Paul Violi/Nowhere Magazine Mud paths line the distant mountainsides, loop across the sheer and glaring... »
- This Is the Winter the Snowy Owls Came South
  It took only two hours for me to reach the apparent miracle that was occurring near Flathead Lake in Polson, Montana: Snowy... »