Dear New Guy At The Climbing Gym, or lady running around the track at the…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 75
I caught this film last weekend at the 5Point Film Festival and loved it: BridesThrowingCats.com:…
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I Believe In Inertia
It happened again yesterday, like it always does, about three-quarters of the way through my…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 74
Sometimes we forget that the Colorado River flows past the end of the Grand Canyon:…
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Introducing The First Backpacking Dutch Oven
Remember your last backpacking trip? What was missing? Come on, think about it. That’s right,…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 73
Johnnie Jameson is doing life right: Do ultrarunners have an increased pain tolerance? I had…
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Use Microaffection To Help Make The World Suck Less
I tried counting all the ways someone could contact me the other day, and I…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 72
“Burrito safety is no joke” —your friends at Outdoor Research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmAwg4hbql0 “As a writer, being…
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Find A Way Around—Or Through
A few years ago I was at a coffee shop and I started chatting with…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 71
“Keep an eye on the time I take, for I have a hardman’s hand to…
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Announcing A New Book: The Great Outdoors: A User’s Guide
Today, I get to share something that some wonderful people and I have been working…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 70
If you’ve skied, you’ve probably relied on Jim Niehues’ work, whether you knew it or…
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7 Must-Have Gear Picks For Your Summer Adventures
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Just kidding. You probably have most of the…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 69
“To my fellow creators, I say: keep creating. Keep doing the work. And never forget,…
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The Time Travelers: A Film About Doing The Thing
At 11 p.m. on January 13th, I watched a group of eight guys push a…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 68
Oregon, through infrared cameras: “You check email, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram… And by the time…
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Happiness Is Your Backyard Trail
I plodded my way up the Hayden Trail, headed up toward my fifth “summit” of…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 67
“This day-glo Stonehenge is meant to represent human presence in the desert.” “We’re more like…
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Life, In 7 Charts
I post a few sketches a week on my Instagram account, and got to thinking…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 66
“Browsing on the internet I found a few people that are keeping themselves busy with…
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My Favorite Adventure Books
This isn’t necessarily one of those “Best Adventure Books Ever Written” lists—just a list of…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 65
Take 97 seconds and enjoy this: https://vimeo.com/203710832 Good news for the environment, terrible news for…
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I Pledge Allegiance To The Grind
“A lot of the young doctors I hire work for me for a year or…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 64
The folks from Duct Tape Then Beer and I put together a little video for…
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Wind, You Jerk
My friend Jayson and I were out trail running on Saturday, for long stretches exposed…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 63
It’s OK to want to go skiing: Illustrator Toby Morris covers 11 species of “Creatures…
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Now Available: These Things I Made For You
I’ve been having fun drawing diagrams and cartoons for Instagram lately, because some jokes (and…
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