At some point pretty soon, gorgeous time lapse movies of the night sky are going to get old–but not yet. This sequence from the top of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii is well worth the 60 seconds to watch. It’s a reminder and an inspiration to get out and stay out, to [...]
From the monthly archives:
February 2010
The last few months, in light of inconsistencies in a 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, intelligence, common sense, and responsibility to our children have come under assault by climate change skeptics. Despite inaccuracies in the report, the balance of evidence continues to confirm that climate change is occurring and that man’s industrial output [...]
With the boom in inexpensive but high-quality digital gear, time lapses are very of the moment, and what makes this 24-hour cycle in the Britain’s Lake District so very cool is that the camera makes two rotations around the scene. The world is spinning on two axes, which, along with the music, propels you forward [...]
Life is pretty simple. Stay warm and dry. Find food, eat it. Procreate. Isn’t that much of the appeal of heading into the backcountry? Strip away the extraneous and refocus on the basics, even if the fundamental for most of us means open a package of freeze-dried chimichangas.
Over the past week, VBS has surprised [...]
So far this month, I received two, just two, powder alerts from Alta Ski Area. This from a place that averages 600 inches a year of fresh, light snow. It seems like a scratchy forever ago that it was late January, when the skies could do no wrong. Well, we just got a little refresh, [...]
“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls rise over the river, we know not. Ah, well! We may conjecture many things. The men talk as cheerfully as ever; jests are bandied about [...]
Eleven months after losing one of its best and brightest, Shane McConkey, in a BASE jumping tragedy, the Squaw Valley community has lost another of its luminary skiers, CR Johnson. According to filmmaker Scott Gaffney, Johnson, 26, fell on Light Towers at Squaw, went off a cliff, and landed in rocks. [...]
Coachella kicks off the big-ticket festival season two months from now, but it’s never earlier enough to be thinking about the power of live music. If you’ve heard anything at all about the Newport Folk Festival in the 1960s, it’s probably in regards to the controversy over Bob Dylan playing an electric set in 1965 [...]
From a guy’s perspective, it’s a shame the Roxy On Ear headphones are designed to be so girlie because they rock just about the best sound reproduction you can buy for $70. From the female perspective…you want these.
A few years ago, I tested a pair of $900 custom in-ear monitors from Sensaphonics, which had such [...]
Hernan Montenegro doesn’t need a lot of words to share what he has to say, and neither do I. This sunny little cycling film, from a series called Bridging the Gap by Joseph Lobato, is all about one of the best ways to spend your day. Watch it, then go ride.
Via Say Mayday
We all have our missions. Arthur Mijares’s just happens to be really, really controversial: The pious Christian is attempting to change the name of Central California’s Mt. Diablo to Mt. Reagan because he thinks a mountain named after the devil is “derogatory, perjorative, obscene, blasphemous, and profane”.
“I just happen to be an ordinary man that [...]
The dusty road is starting to call, the windscreen is ready for splattering of spring hatch. Wildflowers are waking up in the southern drylands. Been a week or two since it dumped in the intermountain west and it’s beginning to feel like time for a road trip. And after seeing this little piece from Ayrton [...]
Pack your piece, baby! Starting today, you can legally carry loaded, concealed weapons in national parks, so long as the state where the park’s located allows it, thanks to a rider on last year’s credit card reform act passed by Congress. This probably isn’t news to you–since firearms are such a sensitive, symbolic topic, few [...]
There are a half-dozen reasons why you should dry your ski boots every night–swamp funk smell comes to mind–but the best is that you don’t want to step out in sub-freezing temps the next day with damp liners. And unless you keep your heat cranked up, they won’t dry on their own. The easiest method [...]
Whatever Lindsey Vonn, Bode Miller, Julia Mancuso, and Andrew Weibrecht are getting paid, the sport of skiing (or at least the industry) owes them more. Not since, well, ever has the sport been as high as it is today. Neither, thanks to Shaun White, Hannah Teter, Kelly Clark, and Scotty Lago, has snowboarding. But it’s [...]
Telluride Contest Has a Winner: Home-Made Video Grabs the Loot
8 Days of Climbing + 10 Pounds of Tequila = New 1,100-Foot Tepui Route
The Gallery of the OIdest Living Things in the World
60-Second Expert: How to Make a Skiing Kick Turn
And the Oscar For Best Use of Sheep Goes To…
Clothes Make the Man…And They Make A Difference for Nepal’s Women
Surviving A Massive Earthquake and Tsunami: What It Feels Like
Waves That Will Make You Say ‘Hurry Up, Summer’
The New Snow Test That Could Save Your Life
Earth’s Day Shortened, Axis Tilted By Chile Earthquake
The Greenest Job? Might Be Professional Tree Climber
60-Second Expert: The Right Way to Clean Your Goggles
Before There Was The Hurricane, There Was the Double Daffy
Time Lapse of the Milky Way over Hawaii
Al Gore: The Truth, Even With Mistakes, Is Still Inconvenient
