Here’s a little tip to curb the spread of disease, illness and other microbial things…
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This Is How You Build A Bike Shop: On Love
I remember flipping through 5280 Magazine‘s 2011 “Top of the Town” issue to the section…
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Hey Coffee, I Love You
When you go on a climbing or backpacking trip and someone says, “I’ll bring the…
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Staying Young Is The New Growing ‘Old’
Christmas Eve, 2011, I am going to throw up on a spin class bicycle.…
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Beware The Urine-Drinking Mountain Goats
For years, I have known to pee on rocks at high altitudes because mountain…
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Excuse Me, You Dropped Something Several Hundred Feet
There’s a reason you clip everything to your harness when climbing long routes: If you…
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Make 2012 The Year Of Maximum Enthusiasm
One Saturday morning last October, my friend Greg and I were running down the North…
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What’s Your Goal For 2012? Here’s Some Inspiration
Every year, my pal Nick and I inevitably have a chat about our goals for…
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Dude, Is It OK If I Call You Dude?
“Do you have a Barnes & Noble membership, boss?” I have noticed lately that baristas,…
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5 Steps to More Fun in Your Outdoor Photos
Remember that time you took that photo of you and your friend(s) standing on the…
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What Does Your Adventure Map Look Like?
I have this paper map in my car where I’ve been highlighting every stretch of…
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Am I Hiking Too Fast For You?
My friend Greg had hit the wall about four miles from the top of the…
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That Shoe/Bike/Gym Membership is Not Going to Change Your Life
A year ago, a friend asked me what I thought of the Street Strider. He…
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How to Bark Down a Dog
Maybe you only ask yourself this question while bicycling or running: Can I beat up…
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Nick + His 1991 Trek 970, 4-Ever: A Love Story
Not so long ago, my pal Nick made up his mind that he was going…
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How to Shit in the Woods, and How Not To
It was the night before my 5-day backpacking trip with five tough teenagers from East…
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Can Bikram Yoga improve your rock climbing?
It is 105 degrees in this room, 50 percent humidity. Seven of us are standing…
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How to Talk Shit to Your Climbing Partner
“Hey, can you take photos with your phone?” I yell down from the belay to…
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One more pitch: How do you reset the stoke meter?
Sometimes men grow boobs. This is just a fact of aging, or more accurately, the…
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How to Properly Put On a 40-Pound Backpack
By Brian Williams, Southern Gentleman, World Traveler and Hopeful Somebody Sawtooth Wilderness, Idaho …
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Make your road trip 40 percent better with FIST PUMP OUT THE WINDOW
Remember your last road trip, the day you left town? Wherever it was, whenever —…
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Photo of climbing couple tossing baby: Real or fake?
Maybe you’ve seen this photo somewhere on the Internet before. I came across it the…
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Inside the Smokey Bear Costume For a Day
I have a drip of sweat on the end of my nose. It itches, hanging…
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9 Reasons Why You Should Never Bike To Work
I have biked everywhere within 4 miles of my apartment in the past 5 years,…
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Advanced Techniques For The Well-Rounded Rock Climber
I don’t know if Tom Hanson, the Commisioner of Castlewood Canyon, made it up, but…
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The friend you want along on every climb
“We’re going to take a little drive down Wall Street and check it out.” This…
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Review: Levi’s Climbing Jeans for Men
Maybe you missed some of the Internet chatter a few weeks back when Levi’s announced…
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