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One part comic, one part dreamy, one part shreddy. This video came out a few years back, but on a cold winter’s day, with warm rides months in the future, it’s like catnip to us.

Columbia Bicycles was, we believe, the first bicycle manufacturing plant established in America, in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1877. Albert Pope, the founder, was of the particular striver type who flourished in the late 19th century. He’d been a Lt Col in the Union Army, then set his sights to business and industry following the war. … Read more

Nathan Florence, who grew up toying with life threatening waves on Oahu’s North Shore from about toddlerhood, has turned making POV videos of some of the world’s meanest waves into a career. He puts a GoPro in his mouth, so you truly get POV footage, scratches into waves most of us would never have the … Read more

We love Kitsbow. They truly make some of the best apparel in the outdoor universe; though, technically it’s made for wearing while on your fave bike, humming down a single track or a gravel road somewhere, you can wear it for any activity, and you can wear it forever. That durability is about as sustainable … Read more

I was terrified when I first got my daughter on the Kids Ride Shotgun seat at about age two or so. Just riding down a quiet residential street seemed full of terrors. Then I realized she was laughing, and the shrieks of fear I heard were coming from my own mouth. I can’t even imagine … Read more

More liquid magma fills the caldera below Yellowstone National Park than previously estimated, according to a new study, but there’s no cause for alarm. Yellowstone still isn’t likely to erupt in a catastrophic way in our or our children’s lifetimes. It’s not even likely to slowly ooze lava anytime soon. Instead of foretelling an apocalypse, … Read more

Morgan Maassen, filmmaker, cut his director’s teeth making gorgeous surf films in far-flung locales. His focus has always been on the beauty of the natural environment; if there’s a world-class rider hucking a big turn in the middle of it, all the better. Same goes for his new snowboard vignette series, “Eleven By One.”