At a grocery store last week, the cover of Cosmopolitan‘s January issue caught my eye with the headline “EPIC SEX.”…
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In a scene in the spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the One-Armed Bounty Hunter finds Tuco…
When you dismount a mountain bike going uphill, you end up doing a sort of bow. As you step off…
My friend Mick’s heart stopped working last Sunday. He died at the age of 54, not knowing that the night…
I haven’t had a “proper” Thanksgiving dinner since 2002, somehow managing to be anywhere but watching football and eating an…
I was trying to start a campfire a couple weekends back and grabbed a fat piece of wood with a…
Maybe you’ve heard this one: Ski resort patron approaches lift ticket kiosk on Powder Day of the Century and demands…
You, outdoor recreator, are quite probably quite educated: Bachelor’s degree, possibly a master’s degree or Ph.D. You wore a cap…
“You know, I was just thinking that three bumper stickers changed my life,” Dan said as we tromped down the…
I always get sandbagged by guys in gear shops. I will stop in somewhere to pick up a cordelette, or…
As the USA Pro Cycling Challenge was working its way around Colorado and into the Front Range in August, I…
2:39 a.m., August 11, 2012: Packs packed, Chris and I are about to shut the tailgate on my van and…
Sometimes I like to fantasize that I have some sort of backcountry suaveness and culinary instinct, and that I will…
Ever fantasized about being a fire lookout, or living in a cabin high in the mountains, or deep in the…
Get over here. Come on in and let the big bear get his paws on you. Sometimes men are afraid…
A handful of Saturday mornings, I have driven out of Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood juggling a bowl of granola on…
It’s a singular feeling when you’re 33 and talking to your mother and she says, “You know what I think…
I’m hanging sideways from the rope going through my belay device, body completely parallel to the ground, one Chacoed foot…
I asked my friend Nick to drive from Denver to Seattle with me a couple weekends ago, since we hadn’t…
I had this idea in early 2011 to make a web site about “normal” outdoorsfolk, those of us who are…