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Embedded

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Gear is more than an enabler of adventure, it’s a repository of memory—and thus, of life

Intro

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The topography of California’s Joshua Tree National Park is deceptively complex. Driving through the park or hiking one of its most popular trails, you can see across the landscape for miles, and what you see is mostly sloping plains dotted by Joshua trees and boulder archipelagos, with mountains ringing the periphery. It seems impossible that … Read more

Learning to Fly

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From injury to pregnancy to that damn rock, navigating an imperfect world on two wheels

The Last Footprints on the Moon

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Mining? A rocket base? Earth’s satellite has never been more popular, but the marks left by Apollo astronauts remain the most important

Intro

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I had this crazy idea. It didn’t start out crazy; it started out like a normal, not-crazy idea. I was bored with riding the same old trails—thank you, Strava, for revealing that I’d ridden Mathis for the hundredth time—and so I thought I’d push myself to ride new ones. And I did that for a … Read more

A Grammar Based on Necessity

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Stone structures can save a traveler’s life, lead a hunter to food, and offer solace to a spirit seeker. They are inuksuit, the Arctic’s vivid language in rock

Moments: AK Turns

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Jeremy Nobis’s radical descent of an Alaskan peak rocketed big-mountain skiing into the modern era of fat skis and monster drops