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Blue Planet Takes on the Big Red River

by steve casimiro on July 29, 2010 · 1 comment

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Alexandra Cousteau’s Expedition Blue Planet is in the midst of a 14,500-mile journey across North America to raise awareness of water issues, and this short film on the Colorado River is the first big segment of video story telling to come out of the project. It’s filled with gorgeous imagery and a smooth narrative style, [...]

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The Adventure Life Launches Free Weekly Newsletter

by steve casimiro on July 28, 2010 · 0 comments

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Hola, peoples of the adventure planet! I’m super stoked to announce that the inaugural Adventure Life newsletter has just been launched into the ethersphere. This week’s version is a calendar of top 10 adventures for August. The subject will rotate each week between travel, gear, environment, and calendar. The travel newsletter is written by former [...]

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Exploring New Ground in ‘Border Country’

by steve casimiro on July 27, 2010 · 0 comments

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“Sometimes a climb is just a climb. Sometimes it’s more than that.” This eight-minute short film is a flawlessly told story of a new climbing route in Yosemite called Border Country, but like all good stories it’s not so much about the climbing but about people, their passions, and the connections you make along the [...]

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1970s Australian Surfing Sure Looks Good From Here

When you hail from a place called Ulladulla and form a band, it might be inevitable that your music has a bright, lilting, and rolling summer breeze to it. Hot Spa is very much under the radar–the five-member group from New South Wales, Australia doesn’t have a contract or a record and hasn’t played a [...]

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How To Enjoy Your Outdoor Vacation: Step 1, Take One

Yours truly is, technically speaking, on vacation. Four of us are Griswolding in the ultimate adventure vehicle some 1,300 miles from home, and despite the 24/7 demands of the modern media monkey, it’s pretty sweet. Turns out there is science behind the benefits we draw from vacations, and research shows that interrupting your break like [...]

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Das Goat: The Man Behind the Backcountry Blog

Odds are that you’ve bought something from Backcountry.com. The online retailer that started in a spare bedroom in a Park City, Utah, townhouse is ubiquitous in the world of outdoor gear. So, too, is its daily blog, the Goat–odds are that you’ve been entertained, informed, maybe even LOLed, perhaps on occasion ROFLed, after reading one [...]

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Choppers Pluck 16 From Grand Teton In Dramatic Rescue

In the biggest rescue staged in Wyoming’s Teton Mountains in almost 50 years, rangers pulled 16 climbers from the Grand Teton yesterday after all were struck by lightning. A 17th climber was missing, and the search for him resumed today. Some of the climbers were struck three or four times, and there were numerous injuries [...]

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World’s Best Bike Handlers Throw Down in Scotland

It’s impossible to watch Scottish bike ninja Danny MacAskill without thinking about Hans Ray, the undisputed king of trials riding and the man who two decades ago brought the twisted style of cycling gymnastics to the attention of North Americans (and for that matter, the rest of the world). Without Hans, there might not be [...]

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Tarp Surfing is Blowing Up

“Tarp surfing is pretty much what’s going on right now.” “It’ll prett much turn a grown man into a grom and a grom into a grown man.” Nuff said…just watch. Viral viral viral.
Tarp surfing clearly has its roots in Playmobil surfing. The big questions is, how will these two radical surfing offshoots influence each other [...]

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MC SpandX Cleans Up With “Get Dirty”

MC SpandX blew up after his sick “Performance” music video went viral, and then he himself blew up like black market Chinese fireworks. It was a classic tale of the fast and fleeting ride of fame–groupies, paparazzi, selling his soul to sell hair gel–seen through the prism of road cycling and fixed gear culture. Well, [...]

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When It Comes to Plastics, Little Steps Have Big Impact

At this point, we shouldn’t need to be reminded of the negative consequences of living in a plastic world. The message should be clear. Unfortunately, it isn’t. Everywhere you look, there are more plastic bags, more plastic bottles, more indiscriminate use and trashing of a material that simply never goes away, just gets smaller and [...]

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Body Surfing Is Coming Home

Body surfing is the first sport we learn. Our first 40 weeks are spent surrounded by elemental warm wetness, sloshing and sliding when our moms go about their lives. Whatever we hear is muffled by the fluid in our ears, and the predominant sensation, at least as I imagine it, is one of floating. How [...]

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Photo of the Day* for July 18, 2010

Typically, the view you see of Tahiti’s Teahupoo is from surfer’s left of the wave, looking down the barrel to get the full impact of the heaving slab that passes for a lip, but this shot of Andy Irons was taken in the hottest part of the battle zone, just a few feet above the [...]

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Feds Dig Deeper Into Armstrong Doping Probe, Subpoena LeMond

Federal investigators looking into allegations of blood doping by Lance Armstrong and the U.S. Postal cycling team have subpoenaed three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond to testify and to turn over documents related to his long and contentious tangling with Armstrong and his bike sponsor, Trek, according to a story published on the website [...]

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Madison Avenue Started Co-Opting Surfing A LONG Time Ago

And you thought surfing was being ridden hard by marketers today. Well, they don’t make commercials like they did back in the 1960s–and that might not be such a bad thing. Check out this Americanized James Bond who only has eyes for a nice can–a nice can of Colt 45, that is, delivered by a [...]