Twenty or so years ago, I lucked into a miracle surf session in Baja. After hours of dusty, axle-grinding driving along the wind-blasted coast near [REDACTED], my friend pulled his truck off the jeep trail near a crumbling precipice overlooking a secluded rock-strewn pointbreak. The spot wasn’t on any of our surf maps, but a … Read more
Neil Armstrong, as well as his fellow astronauts on the Apollo 11 moon landing were chosen for the steadiness under pressure. Nevertheless, landing on the surface of the moon, walking around on it, then taking back off again to link up with an orbiting spacecraft apparently gets the heart pumping even among the coolest cats. … Read more
Or, “How to Free Solo a Big Wall.”
I remember our first belay like it was yesterday: he, a more experienced climber well-versed in safety and knot-tying yet new to the area, and me, a relative newbie to the climbing scene. We stood together at the bottom of the lead climbing wall at the local gym. Our girlfriends had just met at a … Read more
I remember our first belay like it was yesterday: he, a more experienced climber well-versed in safety and knot-tying yet new to the area, and me, a relative newbie to the climbing scene. We stood together at the bottom of the lead climbing wall at the local gym. Our girlfriends had just met at a … Read more
On June 23rd, parts of Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park received an inch of rain in an hour as a massive summer storm pummeled the area. At Capitol Gorge, tourists fled for their lives when rising waters consumed the dirt road to the trailhead. One visitor recorded his experience and it’s a must-watch. From a … Read more
Engineers will account for climate change as they design replacement highways along the rivers in and to Yellowstone National Park, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said Friday after touring the flood-damaged reserve. Haaland, on her fourth visit to the first national park, made her remarks overlooking Old Faithful with Superintendent Cam Sholly. He said … Read more
https://vimeo.com/379067337 Warrick Mitchell lives a four-day hike from anywhere else in the southernmost tip of New Zealand’s South Island. Only other way in is by the air. Lonely? Dunno, but life looks incredibly good there.
Trevor Gordon and his wife Maddie may have once lived in an actual house, one that doesn’t sail or drive, but that’s long in the past now. They live on a 36-foot sailboat docked in Santa Barbara, California, which sounds glamorous, sure, but it’s still a tiny space with a shared bathroom that’s on a … Read more
In June 2022, I set off on a 10,650-mile, six-week motorcycle trip from Tennessee to Alaska and back again, carrying not too much more than my GPS and phone. The ride kickstarted a year of travel for research – and despite the horror stories of delayed and canceled flights, I couldn’t be happier. Just about … Read more