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Moments of Regret: The Virgin Slam

by steve casimiro on March 19, 2012 · 2 comments

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This has to be the purtiest Moment of Regret yet, thanks to the production values of the Camp 4 Collective kids, who took their cinema-ninja-ry to the sacrificial lands of Virgin, Utah, and likely captured a terabyte or two of hucking. It’s all good until 1:36, when you have the makings of a separated shoulder [...]

The Daily Bike, March 13, 2012

by 18 miles per hour on March 13, 2012 · 4 comments

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For a white dude, this was the oddest, smartest, and scariest piece of race-day goody bag swag ever. Was the Tucson Medical Center interested in how we looked during and after the 24 Hours Of The Old Pueblo? Did we get time bonuses for looking extra fly? The answer is in the background. Try to [...]

The Double BASE Jump Onto Fisher Towers

by steve casimiro on March 1, 2012 · 2 comments

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In a move reminiscent of the enchainments taking place around Chamonix in the 1980s, base jumper Mario Richard leaped off a cliff called Dragon’s Nest outside Moab, sailed to the top of the King Fisher, the biggest of the Fisher Towers, high-fived some waiting friends, and then jumped off the King to land in the [...]

Wallpaper Wednesday: Chessler Park, Utah

by steve casimiro on February 29, 2012 · 0 comments

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This week’s free wallpaper of Chessler Park, in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes. It was shot by David Hiser for Documerica, the amazing public works photography project run by the Environental Protection Agency from 1972 to 1977.. 1280 x 800 1440 x [...]

The Daily Bike, December 7, 2011

by steve casimiro on December 7, 2011 · 0 comments

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Dropping onto the Shafer Trail switchbacks in Canyonlands National Park at sunrise surely must be one of the most sublime bike touring experiences you can have. The vertical plummets several thousand feet just to the left of your knobbies, golden light splashes the red rock with paint, the air is clear, and the whole desert [...]

Fall Peaks: The Best Autumn Escapes — Anza-Borrego, California

by steve casimiro on November 10, 2011 · 1 comment

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The better part of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park’s 600,000 sun-drenched acres are comprised of sand, dirt, dust, rocks, gravel, thorns, needles, spikes, tarantula dens, and rattlesnake burrows, but way up in the northwestern corner, past the bleached-out town of Borrego Springs, beyond the half-underground visitor center, after the dented brown sign that urges you to [...]

Wallpaper Wednesday: Grand Canyon Sunset

by steve casimiro on November 9, 2011 · 0 comments

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You paid for this wallpaper. I have no idea how much — tiny fractions of a penny — but it is in fact your tax dollars at work. This stunning shot from the Grand Canyon comes courtesy of the National Park Service archives. Thanks, Uncle Sam. 1280 x 800 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 [...]

Fall Peaks: The Best Autumn Escapes — Indian Creek, Utah

When we set out to put together this series on fall escapes, we simply made a list of our favorite autumn spots. Every single one of them rocks, and if you made me spend three months of shoulder season at any one, I’d be thrilled. But, you know, we do have the favorites of our [...]

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The Goat-Packing, Desert-Dwelling Scientist Who’s Chasing Bigfoot

In 1972, while camping alone in the Wind River Mountains, a young naturalist John Mionczynski was convinced that he encountered Bigfoot. Over the decades since, he’s searched for further evidence of a large primate inhabiting the forests of western North America. But that hardly makes him a nut; if anything it makes him more like [...]

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Declination: Walking Across the World’s Hottest Desert

Long-distance desert walking is, by its very nature, a retro means of travel in our modern speed-and-efficiency-fixated world. When even the driest desert on earth — Antarctica — has been crossed by Toyota pickup, why bother walking? Seventy-five to 150 years ago, such epic exploratory walks were done almost regularly — most famously by charismatic [...]

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The Daily Bike, September 23, 2011

Tis the season for Sedona, Arizona. Warmish days, coolish nights…a simple, timeless wheelie drop on red rock, set against one of the West’s most enduring backdrops. Where will you ride this weekend? Rider: Matt Phillips. Photo: Casimiro

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Solo Hiker Injured, Crawls for Days…In Aron Ralston’s Utah Canyon

A 64-year-old North Carolina man was hiking in the Utah desert, didn’t tell anyone where he was going, and then fell and severely injured his leg. In Blue John Canyon. Within a literal stone’s throw of where Aron Ralston was trapped by a boulder, cut off his arm, and staggered out to be rescued by rangers in a helicopter.

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Declination: Chesler Park, Utah

I think the first time I heard anything about Chesler Park, I was being a non-productive REI employee and flipping through a copy of Peter Potterfield’s Classic Hikes of the World at the Paradise Valley store in Phoenix. A couple months later, I would move from Phoenix to Denver, on the way stopping at four [...]

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Wallpaper Wednesday: Mountain Biking Moab, Utah

This week’s free wallpaper of Moab, Utah, is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes, for the iPhone and iPad, and for common Android sizes, too. Photo by Steve Casimiro 1280 x 800 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920×1200 iPhone iPad Android 960×800 Android 640×480

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Wallpaper Wednesday: Anza-Borrego Badlands, California

This week’s free wallpaper of Fonts Point in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes, for the iPhone and iPad, and for common Android sizes, too. Photo by Steve Casimiro 1280 x 800 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920×1200 iPhone iPad Android 960×800 Android 640×480

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