ajtestbed When my friends and I encountered the fresh grizzly bear scat, we were deep in Wyoming’s Teton Wilderness, 20 miles from a trailhead. I’d seen grizzlies before—from the car. But this experience was on a whole other level. I felt vulnerable, nervous. I also felt fully alive. That feeling owes much to the Wilderness Act, … Read more
Last spring, I bought a Softopper. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a soft-sided topper for a pickup. But it comes with one incredibly cool trick—it’s collapsible. When the Softopper is in topper mode, you unfasten the cover (it attaches to the bedrails with snaps) and fold the whole thing down, either toward the front … Read more
Bruce McLellan recalls seeing his first grizzly bear when he was only 4 years old. It must have made an impression. He became a wildlife ecologist and devoted his career to studying the hulking bruins — much of it in the same remote place. He moved to the wilds of the Flathead Valley in Canada … Read more
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Mattias Fredriksson has provided the stoke for countless ski mag readers and poster gawker-atters for decades now. A longtime ski photographer, he’s now the editor of Interstellar, one of our fave media sites today. Fredriksson grew up and learned to ski in Sweden, then eventually made the move to small-town British Columbia, drawn in by … Read more
Six weeks before she was due to leave for Tibet and attempt to climb the north face of Mount Everest, athlete/activist Caroline Gleich tore her anterior cruciate ligament. She’d spent many months raising money for the expedition, but couldn’t afford trip insurance, which cost $10,000. So, she went to Everest anyway, girded herself for the … Read more
On May 5, 2023, a 19-year-old hiker named Matthew Read headed out on a roughly 12-mile trek in an underpopulated part of Glacier National Park in Montana. Read, a chemical engineering student, had stopped in Glacier while driving home to Michigan, and the pine-surrounded path he embarked on was known for its big views of … Read more
On today’s episode, we’re going to start off with some news about Aspen Skiing Co. looking for unsanctioned ski instructors in their resort, and then chat about some gear. Our main topic is about the best big cities for access to adventure. And we finish it off with some disagreements in another round of overrated/underrated. … Read more
Bill Murray as spiritual advisor, books that have inspired us recently, our fave adventure authors, and questions from readers on this week’s episode. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Mentioned Episodes: SURF NEW WAVES, SING KARAOKE, AND OTHER RESOLUTIONSREI VS. INDIE OUTDOOR RETAILERSLOCAL ADVENTURES WITH ALASTAIR HUMPHREYSMY SUMMER WITH THE UBCO EMOTORCYCLE Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:42 Books … Read more
Ed. note: Nobody is suggesting you cut down trees and build bonfires for fun. Sometimes, however, shit happens in the winter. Imagine that you’re on the Greenland ice sheet, a hundred miles of barren snow screaming away to every compass point, only your snug yellow tent protecting you from the dangerous, otherworldly exposure. Or heck, … Read more