The Mountain-Climbing Lobster And Other Stories
byAs you’re probably well aware, another holiday season is almost here. Every year around this time, I start getting this nagging voice in the…
As you’re probably well aware, another holiday season is almost here. Every year around this time, I start getting this nagging voice in the…
The summer trail season is here, and you may or may not have questions about how to properly utilize America’s public lands. Questions like…
Driving Going-to-the-Sun Road is one of the most popular ways to see Glacier National Park in the summertime. It’s no secret that, for…
I have a smartphone app that converts measurement units into other measurement units. Sure, you probably think that’s pretty dorky. But let me ask…
I was opening a fifth browser tab when I caught myself. Researching an 600+-mile bike packing route had nothing to do with what I…
Maybe you’re familiar with this thing known as “Everesting,” in which maniacs people pick a hill of a certain height and bicycle or run…
Thanks for reading. These posts are able to continue thanks to the handful of wonderful people who back Semi-Rad on Patreon for as…
As the saying goes, The avalanche doesn’t care if you’re an expert On avalanches, or an expert on anything else, really The avalanche does…
’Tis the season for the grand holiday tradition of looking back on all the fun stuff we’ve done in 2020 and gathering up the…
If you missed getting a Periodic Table of the Elements of Adventure poster back in August, they’re now available in the Semi-Rad shop. These…
Several years ago, I had an idea to collect some bad Yelp reviews of U.S. national parks for a story on Adventure Journal. Since…
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If you’re familiar with the Barkley Marathons at all (perhaps via one of the great documentaries about it), you might remember this entertaining fact:…
Over the past few weeks of adjusting to the gradually shrinking new realities of not traveling, then not going to restaurants or coffee shops…
With all due respect to the makers of real and useful multi-tools, and with no constraints of what would actually fit in a multi-tool,…
The bumper stickers about politicians skiing in jeans were first created more than a decade ago, but skiing in jeans has a much longer…
More charts like this on my Instagram and in my book, Chart Imitates Life. —Brendan
My friend Justin Simoni tweeted this screenshot of a guy in full mountaineering gear working on a laptop the other day: This stock photo…
There are a number of ways to express gratitude to your friends: buying them a beer, naming your first child after them, Venmoing them…
Have you always fantasized about leaving it all behind for a few days or weeks so you can finally fully devote yourself to the…
—Brendan More stuff like this in my new book, Bears Don’t Care About Your Problems,…
Welcome to Tequila Beach, our Grand Canyon raft trip-themed bar, where we’ve gone to great lengths to recreate an experience just like a Grand…
Lots of people love Moby Dick, which has long been considered a classic of American literature and one of the best adventure books of…
It was one of those weekends when everything went right. The weather was perfect—sunny, not a cloud in the sky, and just cool enough…