I have this paper map in my car where I’ve been highlighting every stretch of…
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Adventure Journal’s “Great Mountains of the World”: Grand Teton
My profile of the Grand Teton is up on Adventure Journal today — if you’ve…
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Am I Hiking Too Fast For You?
My friend Greg had hit the wall about four miles from the top of the…
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How to Bark Down a Dog
Maybe you only ask yourself this question while bicycling or running: Can I beat up…
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Your Body is a Furnace, Not a Temple: Trashy, Yet Easy Camping Recipes
City of Rocks, Idaho, early August 2011: Two men in their late 20s/early 30s sit…
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The Dirtbag Diaries: The Way of the Underdog
This is my friend Jayson. When I’m telling people about him, a lot of times…
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Get Ready For Ski Season With The Most Expensive Ski Package Ever: $125,561
Snow is falling in the high country. Be honest. Can you really afford to start…
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How much outside time do you need?
One night a couple weeks ago, I ate dinner with my back to a 180-degree…
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How to Shit in the Woods, and How Not To
It was the night before my 5-day backpacking trip with five tough teenagers from East…
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A Lesson On How To Live, From Climber Craig DeMartino
I tried to pull around a corner on nothing, the crux moves of the third…
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Can Bikram Yoga improve your rock climbing?
It is 105 degrees in this room, 50 percent humidity. Seven of us are standing…
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How to Talk Shit to Your Climbing Partner
“Hey, can you take photos with your phone?” I yell down from the belay to…
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One more pitch: How do you reset the stoke meter?
Sometimes men grow boobs. This is just a fact of aging, or more accurately, the…
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How to Properly Put On a 40-Pound Backpack
By Brian Williams, Southern Gentleman, World Traveler and Hopeful Somebody Sawtooth Wilderness, Idaho …
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Make your road trip 40 percent better with FIST PUMP OUT THE WINDOW
Remember your last road trip, the day you left town? Wherever it was, whenever —…
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It’s A Tiny Bear Canister, For Tiny Bears
I have learned many things from my friend Lee: How to place gear on trad…
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Photo of climbing couple tossing baby: Real or fake?
Maybe you’ve seen this photo somewhere on the Internet before. I came across it the…
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Inside the Smokey Bear Costume For a Day
I have a drip of sweat on the end of my nose. It itches, hanging…
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The friend you want along on every climb
“We’re going to take a little drive down Wall Street and check it out.” This…
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You don’t have to clip that to the outside of your backpack
I was renting this guy a backpack and 3-person backpacking tent when I worked at…
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Climbing, Car Accidents, Motorcycles, Risk, and Danger: What’s Worth It?
Since March 15th, two good friends of mine have been in car accidents that could…
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Tricking ourselves into getting in shape
I was sitting in The Shoppe, a cupcake and cereal place in Denver, with my…
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The perfect downtown Denver bouldering wall I biked right past a hundred times
I must have pedaled past this wall on the Cherry Creek bike path 200 times…
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Buy the newest, lightest, shiniest gear today or you could die out there
There’s a single paragraph in Yvon Chouinard’s Let My People Go Surfing: The Education…
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Ideas for storing outdoor gear in a tiny apartment
A few years back, I went from a co-habitating man living in a spacious apartment…
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Is this the best desert dayhike in America? Canyonlands’ Chesler Park Loop
I think the first time I heard anything about Chesler Park, I was being…
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Hopefully this beer is thanks enough: A gratitude scale for outdoorsfolk
Last Wednesday, I was standing in my neighborhood liquor store trying to decide whether I…
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