It was supposed to be the ultimate father-son bonding trip but, after his father died of cancer, David Leffler was left to embark on his epic American road trip alone. To his surprise, each kilometer brought him closer to salvation. On an icy morning in early December, I step out of my car and into […]
The Outdoor Foundation is a nonprofit that works to get kids outside and to make being outside and adventuring, exploring, and having fun in the wilderness part of their lives on a regular basis. Last summer, Patagonia, Thule, and VF Corp—the parent company of The North Face, among other outdoor brands—donated money to help the […]
In the summer of 1968, nine sailors began sailing from various ports across Great Britain in the The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a solo, around-the-world, non-stop sailing competition. Rules were fairly loose, as some of the entrants had already been planning around-the-world voyages which the race organizers hoped would swell their ranks. As long […]
The Cape St. Francis sequence in Endless Summer is surf moviemaking’s perfect sphere. Our Pythagorean ideal. Nothing to be added. Nothing subtracted. I knew this right down to my not-yet-descended testes when I watched Endless Summer in a Santa Monica movie theater in 1967. I know it today, having run the footage through Final Cut […]
Tripping or stripping? Roughing it or buffing it? Cam Hassard takes a sans-clothing trip through the burgeoning world of the ‘nakation’. Travel has always sought to reinvent itself. From wellness touring to flashpacking, tornado tourism to ‘ego’ adventures, the latest trend seems to be all about stripping things down to basics. Literally. The ‘Nakation’—aka clothing-optional […]
If you are starting to dread, just a little bit, mothballing your mountain bike for the coming winter, watch these madmen and take heart. Flowing over slushy singletrack and boosting over icy ramps, they show that a little snow is nothing plenty of blazing speed and a brazen line can’t handle. Keep an ear on […]
Well, this is extremely cool. Team River Runner is an adaptive sports program that gets veterans in the water and paddling as a form of therapy, both physical and mental. This past September, they took on the bold task of prepping and guiding five visually impaired veterans for a paddle down all 226 miles of […]
Dirty Gourmet is three women—Aimee Trudeau, Emily Nielson, and Mai-Yan Kwan—who came together after a bike tour across Canada. They put together a big variety of camp meals, many of which can be found in their cookbook of the same name, with lots of different cultural and taste influences. While many of their recipes can […]
Sunny Eaton and Karin Balsley own one of the coolest and most capable Land Cruisers you’ll ever see. They’ve built it up themselves to, well, cruise the land. Just like Toyota intended. They live, sort of, in Nashville, Tennessee, but decided a couple years ago to sell their house, leave their successful white collar jobs, […]
This past weekend a video of a plucky baby bear determined to crest a steep, snow-covered slope to join its mother at the top went viral. At first, it seemed most social media posts of the video celebrated the little bear as a source of inspiration, a sort of real-life version of the classic motivational […]