ajtestbed AJ 39 • Three Square Three Square Dirty Gourmet: uncomplicated, outdoor-friendly recipes from three friends By Mai-Yan Kwan, Emily Nielson & Aimee Trudeau Issue 39 Dirty Gourmet Photos by Dirty Gourmet Dirty Gourmet is a camp recipe and cookbook partnership of three friends, Mai-Yan Kwan, Emily Nielson, and Aimee Trudeau. Their dishes are uncomplicated, outdoor-friendly … Read more
This should be easy, right? Pick a rating system and it’ll tell you what’s hard: double black diamond ski runs, 5.14 climbing routes, Class V whitewater. Except, not really. I’ve skied plenty of double-expert-only runs that were for me, in those conditions, easy. In my not-very-illustrious climbing career, I never got near 5.12, making 5.14 … Read more
In late September 2021, a team of archaeologists used ice axes, shovels, brooms, and warm water heated over a Primus camp stove to extract a rare artifact from an ice patch on Digervarden mountain in Norway: a thirteen-hundred-year-old wooden ski, with birch and leather binding still attached. The ski featured a raised foot platform (more … Read more
Can skiing’s problems be solved by a nomadic, human-powered, ‘backcountry light’ resort?
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AJ 23 • Mementos, Notes, and Fragments Mementos, Notes, and Fragments Issue 23 01 More Stuffing? Please! The annual National Taxidermy Championships have thirty-seven categories of awards, some with cash prizes of up to fifteen hundred dollars, and none of them contain the word “crap.” Which sounds like an oversight but is in fact an … Read more
Geologists have found a sandstone spire in Utah vibrates with the beat of a human heart—and even has a voice you can hear
