From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Body Found in Desert is Not Everett Ruess’s, After All

by steve casimiro on October 30, 2009 · 0 comments

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The remains of a man found on Comb Ridge, Utah, are not those of artist and wanderer Everett Ruess, the New York Times reports, despite genetic testing that suggested they were. Ruess’s disappearance in southern Utah in the 1930s was one of the region’s biggest mysteries and he was sometimes called the Amelia Earhart of the Southwest. The case of his vanishing appeared to be solved earlier this year when a forensic team from National Geographic Adventure positively identified the body as Ruess’s.

The Leaf, the Cookie, and the Land Rover: An Autumn Adventure

by steve casimiro on October 28, 2009 · 6 comments

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Somewhere high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, outside the town of Durango, an aspen grove was doing its aspen thing, shimmering and rustling and whispering aspen secrets. Its leaves had slipped into something more appropriate for the season, yellows and browns that matched the pale, waving grass, and they had begun to give up, let go, and move on to the next part of the cycle. Except for one.

We Were Born to Run. Weren’t We Born to Eat Donuts, Too?

by steve casimiro on October 27, 2009 · 5 comments

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On a hot day, a human can outrun a horse over the marathon distance of 26.2 miles. The reason is our cooling system–by sweating, not panting, we can keep our body temperatures down over endurance runs better than other critters. So, did people evolve to big long distance runners (assuming, naturally, that you believe in evolution)? That’s the argument of Born to Run, a book by Christopher McDougall, covered in today’s New York Times.

Adventure Life Editor Finally Turns Up On Radar

by steve casimiro on October 21, 2009 · 13 comments

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Ahem. Okay, so…sorry. Been awhile. And despite swearing I would never apologize for not updating my completely free website, it’s been way too long not to address my prodigal ways. So, like I said, sorry for the big gap. I have, however, been working on some pretty sick projects.