Brad Rassler 6 min read
ON THE EVENING of November 12, 1958, Warren Harding, Wayne Merry, and George Whitmore surmounted Yosemite’s El Capitan, having made the first ascent...
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Brad Rassler 17 min read
WHEN JESSIE DIGGINS, 22, aka Diggs, entered the World Cup last season as a member of the cross country A...
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EVERYTHING’S BEEN COMING UP ROSES for the women of the U.S. cross country skiing team. World Championships. World Cup podiums. World...
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I wondered about Patagonia’s color-blindness and general reluctance to celebrate the black, brown, yellow, red, and the graying outdoor athlete, especially given the company’s stance on social and environmental diversity.
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Originally published in California City Sports. I WAS DISTRACTED BY maniacal laughter coming from my partner. I turned and beheld a...
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IF YOU’RE you’re one of the 1,200 climbers attempting Denali’s popular West Buttress route next year, the nearly two metric...
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IN TWO WEEKS, U.S. cross country skier Andy Newell will travel to Sochi, Russia to compete in the Winter Olympics....
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There were articles about backcountry skiing on those pages. Or rather, upon closer examination, a series of screeds. Here was a rant about initiating an early "lead change" to carve the perfect telemark turn, and another about how to lay down the perfect skin track
Brad Rassler 6 min read
Gibbons once told McPhee that "there is nothing I would rather do than eat my way through a roadside ditch"
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They wear the slightly bemused expressions of those who have ordered their filet well-done, only to find it served up tartare –but they’re too proud to return the meat to the kitchen.
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If you’re mourning the shortage of Sierra snow, you might do well to stock up on Kleenex. Ski journalist and author Porter...
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MANY A DETROITER’s first ski turns were on a mounded landfill in southeastern Michigan called Mt. Holly, which provided vertically...
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Unabashed, they climbed, skied, drank, smoked, danced, dropped, screwed, and designed gear, and schemed how to avoid the war in Asia.
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