I watched Fight Club the other night for the first time in over a decade,…
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What’s The Best Rain Jacket?
When you’re buying a rain jacket, you probably have lots of questions, none of which…
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A Moab State Of Mind
I sat under Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park, 60 minutes from Moab and 20…
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The Three Types Of Directions
Do you ever ask people for directions anymore? Or do you prefer to ask them,…
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The New Mid-Life Crisis Is: Being Awesome
In March of this year, at a Kmart in Petaluma, California, I bought my friend…
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You Don’t Have To Go Inside Just Because It’s Dark
I rolled down the packed trail, standing in the pedals, watching the 30 or so…
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Pride Cometh Before The Fall
As a joke, I got my photo taken next to the Icebox Canyon trailhead sign:…
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You Wonder Why We Don’t Have Nice Things
I sat down exhausted last Tuesday night next to my friends Chris and Forest in…
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Dads And Dreams
My dad told me the other day he’d won a three-day Harley rental at a…
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Learning How To Say Yes
My friend Forest put this photo on Facebook last December, with this caption: It was…
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You Can Walk Anywhere You Want
I flew to Iowa to visit my grandmother in the hospital a couple weeks ago.…
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Why You End Up Somewhere Sometimes
You call someplace home, and if you think about it, there are probably one or…
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A Lesson From Fred
Six summers ago, a guy named Fred sat down across from me at a picnic…
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How To Get Your New Boyfriend/ Girlfriend To Hate Your Sport
You love snowboarding. Or climbing. Or mountain biking. You’ve been doing it for so long,…
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A Bunch Of Dreams, One Film: The Making Of ’35’
This past Tuesday, a film called “35” went up on Vimeo — it’s 5 minutes…
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The Pure Joy Of Fixie Dave
A couple weeks ago at a party, I saw Dave Nice for the first time…
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Are You A Beautiful And Unique Snowflake?
I told my friend Dan I was getting tired of having long hair, that I…
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Your Best Vacation Is Someone’s Worst Nightmare
My friend Aaron is a pretty normal guy, by most standards: High school math teacher,…
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Make Plans, Not Resolutions
In a scene in the spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the…
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Hopefully this beer is thanks enough: A gratitude scale for outdoorsfolk
Last Wednesday, I was standing in my neighborhood liquor store trying to decide whether I…
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