Utah’s transportation authorities have been puzzling over how to deal with snarled traffic heading up Little Cottonwood Canyon on State Route 210. Snowbird and Alta ski resorts are up there, which draw huge lines of cars puttering up the road in the winter, but the entire area is a beautiful attraction drawing visitors, hikers, viewshed … Read more
Different communities with different legacies, differing challenges, and differing terrain all have something in common: people who love bikes and trails working to bring the two together. This film, Biketown, from Freehub Magazine, is a look at how these mtb communities form and the joys they bring.
I think it started with the wooden clunk of Brendan stacking a few small fallen logs across the windward opening of the tarp. The sun had just dunked below the ridge across the meadow, and hoping the wind would die down with it, we were about to crawl into our sleeping bags for the night. … Read more
AJ’s advice is to spend for quality and only buy gear that lasts. So, what happened when my two-burner Coleman camp stove crapped out? I bought another low-cost Coleman stove. D’oh. On a spring trip to Yosemite, the Coleman was nothing but trouble. The flame disappeared with no warning, gas pressure was all over the … Read more
Nothing scarier when you’re running than that internal voice first whispering, then yelling, to STOP.
On July 22 this year, 145 people summited K2 in one day. So far, at least 200 people have reached the top in 2022. Until this year, only about 300 people had ever climbed the peak. From 300 ever to half that in one day is mind-blowing. There are all sorts of thorny issues and … Read more
Writer Drew Magary hated on bikes. Cyclists, more specifically. Taking up HIS road with their spandex clad bodies, making him shift his phone to his other hand so he could put down his Frappuccino, to slightly maneuver his bloated SUV out of the way of the rider. In that, he wasn’t all that different from, … Read more
The Sunshine Coast is just northwest of the city of Vancouver, and across Georgia Strait from Vancouver Island. A craggy, crenelated zone of water and big trees and beautiful views. Take a little bikepacking tour with a couple friends putting their new bikepacking rigs to the test.
Preparing for a desert trek of several days, three of us exhausted ourselves at a food-buy in Reno. It was all shopping carts and a car packed to the gills, not the part of a journey you usually talk about, the eye-raking lighting and the immeasurable cost of plastic to get you on your way. … Read more
Is this technically a commercial for Arcteryx? Yes. Is it also fun and in a way, poking fun at geared up city folks? Yes.