Following months of increasingly contentious head-butting, officials in the mountain town of Vail, Colorado, are moving to seize a property from a local ski resort to prevent it from constructing new housing for its employees. The property in question is a 5-acre site abutting a frontage road in the eastern part of the 5,600-person ski … Read more
You’ll never truly feel at home in a place until you thoroughly explore your own backyard, no matter how rugged or wild.
I miss breaking in boots. It’s been years since I’ve needed to. Always felt like the start of a committed, loving relationship. I clean and wax the new leather, preserving it against water, then hike around in ’em everywhere for a few weeks. Sometimes unforgiving and tough at first, the boots eventually give way to … Read more
And you’d better, if you wanna finish the Silk Road Mountain Race, thousands of kilometers through central Asia’s varied topography and weather patterns. Good luck!
I always thought a rocker was crucial when selecting a chair for car camping. Just something about that gentle swaying back and forth sitting around a campfire. I love the REI Kingdom Rocker and have had a couple of them for years, but they’re discontinued and I needed a third chair. So I picked out … Read more
Every state in the West has some type of law declaring that its waters belong to the public. But what this means is disputed, and several state supreme courts have had to decide cases that pit streamside landowners against paddlers and anglers. Recreational users have won most of these cases in the Rocky Mountain states, as … Read more
You don’t need thousands of feet of vert to have a blast skiing. These lift addicts in the upper midwest are the proof. Check out this trailer from TGR’s In Pursuit of Soul 2.
Might not be a better place to sit under a blanket and watch the slippery transition from autumn to winter than the deck of a renovated old schoolhouse with wide open views of a meadow fronting Vermont’s Green Mountains. Well, okay, maybe peeking out the window of a sauna with wide open views of a … Read more
For whatever reason, cargo e-bike discussion is raging across lots of the internet this week. We’ve loved these machines for years now and still love the Benno Boost. It’s been updated slightly, but the below review from 2019 is still dead bang accurate and our feelings haven’t changed one bit. I have however, moved on … Read more
Here we are at the end of October, with mountains all across North America newly dusted with the season’s first snowfall—a mottled tease of the winter bounty yet to come. And so we wait as the natural rhythm of backcountry recreation turns, oh-so-slowly, from hard-won summer pursuits to the gravity-fueled joy of winter. Hiking, mountain … Read more