Just about the time you think summer’s here, winter comes roaring back. You can view it as an unwanted guest…or embrace it as one of the last great cold sessions of goop and sleet before the long season of heat and sun. Photographer Celin Serbo and runner Laura Shultz pieced together this wonderful vignette of [...]
weather
At 15, I waited for storms. I wanted drama in my placid life. But when I finally got one — the 1991 Oakland firestorm — it destroyed a few thousand houses, including ours. Afterwards, my dad sank into a depression, my younger brother started climbing out of windows and into trouble, and for years, I [...]
UPSCALE FASHION LABEL PAUL SMITH has opened a bike boutique within luxury department store Harrods. The London store’s fifth floor sports department has a nook devoted to the designer, a retail experience where you can thumb through vintage cycling magazines and browse custom bikes, with niche brands Condor, Brompton, Mercian, and Paris exhibiting wares. Coolest [...]
One recent spring, I was poaching wifi in Moab with some friends, including the climber Mikey Schaefer, who, while I was wasting time reading other people’s braggadocio on Facebook when I should have been writing my own, was busy digging into the digital catacombs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s weather data feeds so [...]
The first time lapse in this week’s collection comes from Ignacio Leonardi and is from a recent trip to Argentinian Patagonia. He didn’t capture the southern lands in their best light — exposures can be a bit dark – but does convey a strong sense Patagonia’s raw wildness. Yosemite: Gorgeous, brilliant, a million views, Ansel’s [...]
If you ever paddle your surfboard out on a choppy windblown day, someone in the lineup inevitably will make a reference to “victory at sea” conditions. After a couple decades of hearing this little surfing cliche, I finally got curious enough to track down the 1954 film about World War II naval life and watched [...]
After floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves and droughts, 2011 will likely end up as the costliest year on record for weather-related disasters, fueling more speculation about the link between global warming and extreme weather. Through mid-November the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center recorded 10 disasters between January and August that each [...]
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Dirtbag Gourmet: Margaritas with Climber Kelly Cordes
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Shelter Co. Is A Sweet Way to Camp
Fracking, Congress Endanger America’s Rivers
The Daily Bike, May 15, 2012
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Why You Should Row Across the Atlantic
Gear Review: Chris King Coffee Tamper
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