The Not-So-Bad Bad Day
byRob at Green Garage in Denver understands the art of telling someone how expensive their car repair is going to be: You can’t deliver…
Rob at Green Garage in Denver understands the art of telling someone how expensive their car repair is going to be: You can’t deliver…
I jogged in my bike shoes with the couple hundred other riders down the dirt road to the start of the 24 Hours In…
SCENE: Monday morning at the office. You arrive, drop your stuff at your desk and walk over to the coffee pot to grab a…
Herb and Jan Conn developed almost all of the early climbing in South Dakota’s Needles with a 60-foot rope, almost one-fourth the length of…
I got an email from Statigram the other day offering to collect my “best Instagram moments of 2013.” I thought Why Not and clicked…
My parents gave me Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York book for a holiday gift, and I spent the next hour flipping from cover…
With the help of a bunch of great friends, I spent the last couple years putting together a book called The New American Road…
About 2 ½ years ago after a breakup, I moved out of my apartment in Denver and into my car, thinking I would go…
I hopped over a stream crossing the Bright Angel Trail, taking a big step from one rock to the next, then turned around to…
I watched Fight Club the other night for the first time in over a decade, out of curiosity if it would still seem as…
When you’re buying a rain jacket, you probably have lots of questions, none of which really matter besides “Which rain jacket is best for…
I sat under Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park, 60 minutes from Moab and 20 miles as the crow flies, on a busy fall…
Do you ever ask people for directions anymore? Or do you prefer to ask them, “What’s the address?” and just plug it into your…
In March of this year, at a Kmart in Petaluma, California, I bought my friend Amy her very first road atlas. She’s 45, and…
I rolled down the packed trail, standing in the pedals, watching the 30 or so feet ahead of me illuminated by my headlamp. Hilary…
As a joke, I got my photo taken next to the Icebox Canyon trailhead sign: “Each year people are killed due to falls when…
I sat down exhausted last Tuesday night next to my friends Chris and Forest in front of a granite shelter we’d just built on…
My dad told me the other day he’d won a three-day Harley rental at a raffle. I said Dad, I think you have to…
My friend Forest put this photo on Facebook last December, with this caption: It was a hot day in July. Navigating the lunchtime jumble…
I flew to Iowa to visit my grandmother in the hospital a couple weeks ago. She’s been in and out of hospitals for the…
You call someplace home, and if you think about it, there are probably one or two big reasons for that. Maybe you grew up…
Six summers ago, a guy named Fred sat down across from me at a picnic table near Wonder Lake in Denali National Park, the…
You love snowboarding. Or climbing. Or mountain biking. You’ve been doing it for so long, you can’t remember what your life was like without…
This past Tuesday, a film called “35” went up on Vimeo — it’s 5 minutes and 17 seconds, including a ton of beautiful footage…
A couple weeks ago at a party, I saw Dave Nice for the first time in a long time. We started talking about the…
I told my friend Dan I was getting tired of having long hair, that I often fantasized about trimming all of it off and…
My friend Aaron is a pretty normal guy, by most standards: High school math teacher, homeowner, happily married, good hygiene, pays his bills, et…