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byPeter Bromka introduced me to these short clips of Off Camera with Sam Jones a few weeks ago and I’m getting really addicted to…
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Friday Inspiration 280
byThis is super cool: an almost-real-time vlog of Joe McConaughey’s fastest known time attempt on the Arizona Trail. This video is Episode 8. (video)(thanks,…
Friday Inspiration 279
by“The point of no return for me is when the chatter in the head stops. ” -Eric Cedeño, aka @Bicycle_Nomad I have not…
Friday Inspiration 278
byI have watched this 1-minute commercial three times in a row trying to figure out exactly why it’s so funny, and all I can…
Friday Inspiration 277
byI don’t know what rabbit hole led me to this, but a film about Will Shortz, New York Times crossword puzzle editor, goes on…
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byThis is not a new video, but I was eating a donut with sprinkles on it the other day and I said to Hilary,…
Friday Inspiration 275
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…
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…
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byA cool film from the folks at Arc’teryx about the idea of nature as a human right (including the voices + ideas of Shelma…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 270
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…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 269
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…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 267
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…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 265
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…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 263
byWow, this is a fun and thoughtful film about the nonprofit climbing gym Memphis Rox and photojournalist Malik Martin (video) I am in awe…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 262
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…
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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…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 257
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…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 256
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…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 255
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…