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Intro Intro By Stephen Casimiro

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Moments Moments: The Higher You Get Jimmy Chin finds himself alone on the top of the world, on skis By Stephen Casimiro

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Appreciation Appreciation: Felix Baumgartner Overcoming claustrophobia to jump from the edge of space By Stephen Casimiro

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Feature Out Alone The popular Hawaiian sport of one-man outrigger paddling remains obscure on the mainland despite a coastline studded with world-class downwind runs By Dave Parmenter

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Feature Etymology: Purple Blob By Christie Aschwanden

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Recommended Reading Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner By Emily White

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Feature Stunted No More The pirate trails of Vancouver’s North Shore defined radical mountain biking for decades until authorities shut them down. Now the Shore is back—with official approval—but is it better or worse? By Vernon Felton

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Feature Once More to the Lake A classic of American literature, this 1941 essay tells the story of a father's poignant return, along with his son, to the haunts of his youth By E.B. White

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Feature Least Force Necessary In the Arctic, a charging bear teaches lessons in non-violence and humility By Michael Engelhard

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Feature On the Bike The sweet process of knowing yourself, one revolution at a time By Jen See

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Feature Love on the Road By Brendan Leonard

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Feature The Seed Jar A rare artifact. A people, vanished. In the labyrinth of Anasazi canyon country, a search for one thing becomes the discovery of another By Craig Childs

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Feature Deep Carve Julie Goldstein’s woodcut prints are celebrations of women and water, but it’s the intricate stories beneath that give them power By Stephen Casimiro

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Feature Kenya Unpoached Once-warring tribes are working together to protect critically endangered animals, with dramatically positive results By Ami Vitale

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Historical Badass The Man Who Cut Off His Toes Peter Freuchen called himself a ‘vagrant Viking’ but that only begins to tell his story By Michael Engelhard

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Weekend Cabin Weekend Cabin: Mountain Research Two and a half hours from Tokyo, a dome becomes a platform for rethinking the weekend getaway By Stephen Casimiro

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Three Square Three Square By Megan McDuffie and Michael van Vliet

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Feature Portfolio: Chris Burkard By Stephen Casimiro

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Resources Resources By Staff