Okay, fine, “bargain” is in the eye of the credit card holder. But in a day and age when people don’t even blink forking over $250 for hiking boots, that Vasque has managed to keep a boot as good as the Breeze at about $150 is, indeed, a bargain. Relatively speaking. The Sundowner is, I … Read more
Near Kalispell, Montana, and Flathead Lake, Alpine Trail #7 is a terrific option for a 76-mile bikepacking route—or an absolute ass-kicking one-day hell ride. Your choice! But that choice is only possible through the work of trail stewards like the Flathead Area Mountain Bikers who have worked very hard to keep this trail rideable and … Read more
This bike was spotted at the little market and gift shop at Two Medicine Lake, Glacier National Park. While that’s a place you are likely pretty safe leaving a bike leaning unlocked against a wall, there are still plenty of people around with trucks and RVs that could swallow a bike with the owner none … Read more
I have long been known to have pet peeves about the debris hikers drop along trails, but one piece of litter has become more annoying: the ubiquitous facial tissue. A used tissue lying boldly in the middle of the path could indicate a person who does not know better. But a tissue stashed under a … Read more
I was stoked to put this trip to Minnesota together a few years back when I was still at Surfer magazine (RIP). We had little idea of the potential of this particular wave, and it was a last-second call to gather the team and head off into a winter storm warning. It paid off. Footage: … Read more
The Great Smoky Mountains are a special place. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most-visited NPS site in the country for a reason. Lush forests, crystal clear waters, plenty of wildlife. So it’s maybe not surprising that when a female black bear who’d been busted for digging into garbage bins a bit too often … Read more
If you’ve ever been to the interior of Idaho, you know that it feels every bit the many hundreds of miles away from the Pacific Ocean that it is. Yet, wild salmon, for thousands of years, have made their way nearly 1,000 miles from the coast to waterways in Idaho’s Sawtooth mountains, where they spawn, … Read more
Winding through the Purcell and Selkirk Mountains, the Bugs to Rogers traverse is a Canadian classic. In this episode of The Fifty, wandering yeti Cody Townsend takes on a traverse that’s sketchy no matter which route you take.
Markus Eder here was a *little* too amped to ski this line. So amped, he threw caution to the wind, tempting fate in a massive avalanche zone. Couple turns into his run, a huge shelf gives way and he instantly regrets his carelessness. Somehow, the dude outruns the avalanche. A lesson learned.
Did you hear the recent good news about songbirds, whales, bears (both black and grizzly), and pollution? No? Well, that doesn’t surprise us. In a season dominated by the chaos of the midterms, the latest U.N. climate conference and billionaires gone bad, a lot of good environmental news slipped through the cracks. So let’s spackle … Read more