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The Adventure Life, Wagner Skis, and Visit Telluride are psyched to announce that Ryan Hollington has won the season-long “Share Your Ski Stoke” contest. Judges from Skiing Magazine, Ski Press, Wagner, T-Ride, and this site picked Hollington’s video as the purist expression of stoke from the scores of entries received. Although not the most polished [...]
Climbers Mikey Schaefer, Kate Rutherford, Brittany Griffith, and Jonathan Thesenga recently spent eight days in the jungle of Venezuela, establishing a new 1,100-foot 5.12 free climb on the east face of Acopan Tepui. The four flew to the small village of Yunek in Venezuela’s stunning and isolated Gran Sabana (the “Great Savannah”), home to a [...]
In a world transfixed by the new, Rachel Sussman is obsessed with the old. Not just old–ancient. The Brooklyn-based photographer has frequent-flown all over the world the last few years documenting the planet’s oldest living organisms. It’s a quest that seems as much fueled by the imagination as the aesthete, because many of these life [...]
One sweater won’t change the world, but it might change how you see it. High-end cycling apparel maker Rapha teamed with Apolis Activism to design the Transit Elite cycling sweater, and they in turned partnered with Citta Himalaya, a non-profit, to have the sweaters made at Citta’s women’s collective in Kathmandu. The Transit Elite is [...]
When most surf photographers shoot empty waves, they focus on the prosaic–the wave’s potential for surfing or its typical and obvious beauty…the barrel, the corduroy stacked up to the horizon, the molten glass backlit at sunset. You know–post cards. They rarely dig deeper, into the elements, the molecular, the composition of components. But not so [...]
Propagation is a dirty word. And while you might not use it in everyday conversation–or even having a working familiarity with its meaning–if you’re a snow traveler it can send chills down your spine. The reason, in the context of snow, is because propagation describes an avalanche that starts locally and spreads globally. It occurs [...]
As job descriptions go, the arborist’s is pretty badass: climb trees all day with a chainsaw, handsaws, and other sharp objects on your belt. Lash your riggings onto elements that can bend or break. Oh, and be careful not to cut your own rope.
These beautiful glimpses into the life of professional tree climbers were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s been a tawdry week for professional road cycling. French authorities issued an arrest warrant for disgraced Tour de France winner Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 title after testing positive for abnormal levels of testosterone, alleging him of computer hacking to gather evidence to refute the doping charges. And Joe Papp, a [...]
So…that lighter you keep in your pocket when you’re shredding? Might come in handy some day in ways you never anticipated. Dominik Podolsky, a snowboarder from Munich, Germany, was riding in Austria and got stuck on a chairlift for six hours after the ski area closed, Der Spiegel reports. Only by torching every scrap of [...]
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
Yosemite Valley, California
Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, France
The Pyramids at Giza, Egypt
Bora Bora
