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…
One of the things about telling stories is you think you should always know where the story begins and ends,…
Here’s a little tip to curb the spread of disease, illness and other microbial things when you’re in the backcountry…
When you go on a climbing or backpacking trip and someone says, “I’ll bring the coffee,” do you secretly bring…
For years, I have known to pee on rocks at high altitudes because mountain goats crave salt, and if…
“So I was thinking,” I said to Dustin in front of his house in Phoenix, “you can be either Santa…
“Do you have a Barnes & Noble membership, boss?” I have noticed lately that baristas, waitstaff, and on Monday, a…
Remember that time you took that photo of you and your friend(s) standing on the summit of something and it…
I have this paper map in my car where I’ve been highlighting every stretch of road I’ve driven on in…
My profile of the Grand Teton is up on Adventure Journal today — if you’ve ever seen it, or seen…
My friend Greg had hit the wall about four miles from the top of the South Rim of the Grand…
Maybe you only ask yourself this question while bicycling or running: Can I beat up that dog? When it comes…
City of Rocks, Idaho, early August 2011: Two men in their late 20s/early 30s sit at a picnic table in…
This is my friend Jayson. When I’m telling people about him, a lot of times I say, “If you know…
Snow is falling in the high country. Be honest. Can you really afford to start this year’s ski season with…
One night a couple weeks ago, I ate dinner with my back to a 180-degree view of Titcomb Basin, one…
It was the night before my 5-day backpacking trip with five tough teenagers from East Palo Alto when someone asked…
I tried to pull around a corner on nothing, the crux moves of the third pitch of a route on…
It is 105 degrees in this room, 50 percent humidity. Seven of us are standing in the middle of yoga…
“Hey, can you take photos with your phone?” I yell down from the belay to my pal Lee, as he…
Sometimes men grow boobs. This is just a fact of aging, or more accurately, the lack of priority we give…
By Brian Williams, Southern Gentleman, World Traveler and Hopeful Somebody Sawtooth Wilderness, Idaho …
Remember your last road trip, the day you left town? Wherever it was, whenever — July 4th, Memorial Day Weekend,…
I have learned many things from my friend Lee: How to place gear on trad routes, how to suffer with…
Maybe you’ve seen this photo somewhere on the Internet before. I came across it the other day, again, when I…
I have a drip of sweat on the end of my nose. It itches, hanging there, but I cannot wipe…
“We’re going to take a little drive down Wall Street and check it out.” This is my friend Chris telling…
I was renting this guy a backpack and 3-person backpacking tent when I worked at an REI store several years…
Since March 15th, two good friends of mine have been in car accidents that could have killed them. My friend…
I was sitting in The Shoppe, a cupcake and cereal place in Denver, with my pal Nick last week, and…