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
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
Jeremy Nobis’s radical descent of an Alaskan peak rocketed big-mountain skiing into the modern era of fat skis and monster drops
Drawn to water at an early age, he found his vision below the ice of the Great Lakes
AJ 11 • Recommended Reading Recommended Reading Wolves in Yellowstone, a fictionalized Alaskan expedition, and eight globe-roaming essays By Emily White Issue 11 American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West Nate Blakeslee · Broadway Books · 2017 Long before her international fame and a New York Times obituary, O-Six was … Read more
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When the joy of being alive takes over with a shout
They revolutionized snow travel from Antarctica to the B.C. backcountry, and now Tucker Sno-Cats are a collector’s item
