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byLast summer, Kaytlyn Gerbin set out to run the 93-mile Wonderland Trail around Mt. Rainier really fast, and I won’t spoil it for you…
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Friday Inspiration 274
byA minute into this video, I was going, “Wait, is this just 11 minutes of speedy bike descents?” and then a minute later, ”I…
Friday Inspiration 273
byRyan Van Duzer will make you want to go ride your bike (or at least make plans to when it warms up a few…
Friday Inspiration 272
byPerhaps you’ve heard of the beer mile? Well, allow Gary Robbins and Linda Barton-Robbins to introduce you to the “Nog Jog,” an equally challenging…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 271
byA cool film from the folks at Arc’teryx about the idea of nature as a human right (including the voices + ideas of Shelma…
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by“I’d argue—hot take here—that music is only as good as the memories that are attached to it.” —Nathan Zed (video) The original Nextdoor…
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by“The beauty of it is that as soon as you’re drawing a monster or a creature that you invented out of your brain, no…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 268
byReviewing cakes based on the climbing depicted on them (thanks, Regge!) (video) A look back at some of Bruce Davidson’s fascinating photography of the…
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byA very joyful, short film about the birth of snowboarding, from Sherman Poppen’s invention of the Snurfer to Jake Burton Carpenter’s creation of the…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 266
byIf you have been sitting around wondering, “Is there a 1980s/90s action movie besides Die Hard that could just barely qualify as a ‘holiday…
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byRyan Van Duzer and Scott Jurek tackle the Longs Peak Duathlon (biking from Boulder to the Longs Peak Trailhead + climbing Longs Peak), which…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 264
byThis is not only an incredible story, but an incredible film about an incredible story. If you don’t have 11.5 minutes to watch this…
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byWow, this is a fun and thoughtful film about the nonprofit climbing gym Memphis Rox and photojournalist Malik Martin (video) I am in awe…
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byA super-fun, short film bringing together drumming and running/scrambling in Boulder’s Flatirons, two things that Kyle Richardson excels at (OK, I guess that’s actually…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 261
bySimply three minutes of colorful outdoor fun here: (video) Christoph Niemann, using drawings on beverage napkins, details his love affair with coffee, starting at…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 260(!)
byA quick note from me: One evening sometime in the past week, and it was either while listening to the Dolly Parton’s America podcast…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 259
byJust a guy, wearing a blindfold, dancing on a street corner, with a cardboard sign asking people to dance with him, and, you know,…
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byGreat short film about a very small and obscure niche of kayaking called “squirt boating,” which is weird, but not as weird as the…
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byGraham Zimmerman digs into what it’s like to be “An Imperfect Advocate” as a climber and climate activist (video) A non-partisan initiative to deliver…
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byI finally sat down to watch the film Transamericana with Rickey Gates and, well, add me to the list of people saying it’s poetry—here’s…
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byI can’t imagine how long this took to edit, but it’s a fun 59 seconds of bike tricks with the bikes removed (video) The…
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by“A friend of mine gave me really great advice last year—she said, ‘Start slow, and then fade.’” —Kevin Schmidt, Courtney Dauwalter’s husband, at the…
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byA couple of my friends made this short piece about Pacific Climate Warriors for Global Day of Climate Action, which is *checks calendar* today,…
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byNYC bike messenger John Shackleford is biking the Underground Railroad from Mobile, Alabama, to Washington, DC and is making a film about it (video)…
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byThis looks like a very fun and touching film about the life of The Endless Summer director Bruce Brown (video)(thanks, Will) “Mount Shasta is…
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byGreat 10-minute film of ultrarunner Coree Woltering’s attempt to break the Fastest Known Time on Wisconsin’s 1,200-mile Ice Age Trail (video) The only thing…
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byI cannot encourage you enough to watch this 31-minute climbing film that I would describe as both “heartwarming” and “an unlikely bromance.” (video) (H/T…