The evening sun lay low as I dismounted my bike and walked off the trail into a labyrinth of creosote and prickly pear cactus. Minding every step, I arrived at the rim of the San Juan River gorge and leaned over the edge. The walls of the chasm fell away in a series of steps … Read more
There’s a wave that breaks on the south side of Maui called Freight Trains. Spins off for a couple hundred yards near the Maalea harbor. The name comes from the wave’s blistering speed as it unzips across the reef. Last week during a rare swell event, the wave came alive in ways it rarely, if … Read more
When you’ve just humped 25, 35, 45 pounds 10 or more miles to that secluded spot by a high mountain lake, having a good place to sit is key. Yeah, you can lie down on your pack and that’s great, but just try eating dinner like that. Lots of backpacking sites have logs you can … Read more
Annette Choszczyk lives in rural western Colorado these days, but when she was a kid, the Highline Canal in Denver was her summer paradise. “To us, it was river and a playground, complete with rope swings, swimming holes, crawdads and a trail alongside it that adults and kids could walk on to the foothills or … Read more
Now this is what we’re talking about. Riding bikes out to a mountain lake and then…snorkeling? Snorkeling. Rad.
We kinda got away from these book recommendation lists over the past couple years for a variety of reasons not worth getting into here, but I’ve been buying lots of books again (in hardcover too!) and have caught the book bug badly. Probably because I finally put a hammock in the backyard. Or with a … Read more
Just an elegant, beautiful time-lapse of a Greenland fjord for your Friday viewing pleasure.
To those with restless, wandering souls, the promise of a frontier, a hazy zone marking the edge of the known and what lies over the horizon, is an irresistible force promising adventure, the slaking of an endless thirst for discovery. Through much of the early 20th century in the US, the frontier was Alaska, the … Read more
Having tried and failed to construct a blackout sheet between the front seats and rear sleeping area in the back of my SUV, I was stoked to see Luno’s new privacy curtain hit the market. The 200-denier polyester black screen attaches to the side grab handles with a length of webbing, along which it slides … Read more
Ryan Burch is an antidote to the scrubbed, jockish nature that dominates most surf films. He’s no question one of the best surfers on the planet, but he surfs entirely his own way on boards he makes himself (still something that separates surfing from other “action” sports), and is a bit of a throwback to … Read more