This is my kind of ride. Northern latitudes. A minimum of talking. No cars. Country roads. Variable terrain. Sam Needham is a triple threat: photographer, illustrator, and filmmaker. His illustrations are bold, high in relief, geometric, and stand in contrast to the soft gradations and rolling hills of “Yorkshire Grit,” but they share intensity with […]
Jaimal Yogis spends a lot of time thinking about not thinking. He’s a writer and surfer based in San Francisco, California, where he pursues the elusive quality, or perhaps a state of being, of Zen. Yogis has written two memoirs about the relationship between surfing and his Zen practice, as well as a non-fiction book […]
It’s jarring to see nature make something with ruler-edged straight lines. Especially when those straight-lined things are massive icebergs hundreds and hundreds of yards long. Which is just what has happened in Antarctica, and NASA is all over the scene taking pictures and causing a social media sensation. This iceberg, looking at least in part […]
Scotland’s Shetland Islands are windswept and rugged, full of wide-open vistas, thousands of squawking migratory birds, awesome rock formations, and winding trails. An epic place for long, lingering walks and time spent decompressing in the joys of raw nature. It just so happens that doctors are increasingly starting to realize time spent outdoors can be […]
It’s a story often told these days, though not as often done. Twenty-something grows tired of the rat race, bores of spinning the wheel constantly, a niggling feeling creeps in, wondering what else is out there and when they’ll actually get to see it. The knowledge that another, less predictable, less stable, but more interesting, […]
Thom Yorke. The frozen continent. Greenpeace. Black and white video. Here’s almost four minutes of an ethereal escape from, well, everything. Song is called “Hands Off Antarctica.” See the full post >
On November 18, 1928, Glen and Bessie Hyde said goodbye to brothers Ellsworth and Emery Kolb, left the Kolb’s house near the Grand Canyon’s Bright Angel Trail and began walking down a path leading to the Colorado River. The Hydes had a boat tied up there, one in which they’d spent weeks floating down the […]
Every year, millions of salmon battle their way up British Columbia’s Adams River in a spectacular display of life and death. And as the salmon run, the locals celebrate and the tourists flock. It’s a fight for their lives. Picked off by bears, coyotes, eagles and fishermen, it’s no easy feat for the sockeye salmon […]
Over the years, I’ve tried plenty of padding options for sleeping while truck camping. Thin sheets of memory foam worked pretty well, but were a pain to store and got dirty and gross quickly. Regular backpacking sleeping pads are fine but always feel insufficient considering there’s no reason to scrimp on size when you can […]
This is quite a time for adventure film buffs. Free Solo is smashing documentary records and slickening palms across the country, and The Dawn Wall is warming hearts in screenings all over the place, surely it’s playing tonight at a mountain town near you. And now, on their heels, Reel Rock 13 comes blazing, about […]