The Whitey-Tighty Geocache
byHave you ever shit your pants at a national park? A few years ago, I was hiking down from the top of Angels Landing…
Have you ever shit your pants at a national park? A few years ago, I was hiking down from the top of Angels Landing…
Hey Are you sick and tired of diets that JUST DON’T WORK? Do you feel like a sucker after losing a few pounds with…
Do you ever ask people for directions anymore? Or do you prefer to ask them, “What’s the address?” and just plug it into your…
Hey, So you got a fancy new car-top bicycle carrier. Cool, it’s gonna be great to not have to take off my front wheel…
Geez, with all the information from magazine covers, your friend who’s on a new fad diet, and television commercials, it’s hard to know what…
Nick mentioned a hot springs somewhere in southern Colorado, and I suspected it was one of those things he was doing because his girlfriend…
My dad mentioned to me the other day that this was the first year he’d ever used up his entire five weeks of paid…
As a joke, I got my photo taken next to the Icebox Canyon trailhead sign: “Each year people are killed due to falls when…
Are you going hiking this weekend? Planning a climb of Mount Hood, Shasta, Rainier? There are two things you should be doing: training, and…
Have you heard of Mount Everest? Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth, so it is also the best mountain on Earth. For…
“Bushwhacking is like my third favorite thing to do in the outdoors, behind crotch-deep postholing and getting hit in the head by falling rocks,”…
You love snowboarding. Or climbing. Or mountain biking. You’ve been doing it for so long, you can’t remember what your life was like without…
Jesus H Christ, is that plain water in your water bottle? You’re a high-performance athlete. Your body is a high-performance machine. As soon as…
I realized a couple years ago that I have more fun skiing uphill than skiing downhill. I enjoy the Zen rhythm of methodically skinning…
I told my friend Dan I was getting tired of having long hair, that I often fantasized about trimming all of it off and…
At a grocery store last week, the cover of Cosmopolitan‘s January issue caught my eye with the headline “EPIC SEX.” Immediately, in my head,…
A few years ago, I climbed Drift Peak near Leadville, Colorado, on Presidents Day with my friend Aaron and my friend Lee. Lee had…
I always get sandbagged by guys in gear shops. I will stop in somewhere to pick up a cordelette, or a stuff sack, or…
2:39 a.m., August 11, 2012: Packs packed, Chris and I are about to shut the tailgate on my van and start walking the Garnet…
Sometimes I like to fantasize that I have some sort of backcountry suaveness and culinary instinct, and that I will someday take a special…
Staying hydrated is important. Perhaps equally important is subtly communicating your identity by decorating your favorite water bottle with the proper stickers to project…
Climbing is fun. But at the top of a route, everybody gets all serious. Which is good, because lots of accidents happen while rappelling….