Brad Rassler 6 min read
THOUGH IT’S BEEN NEARLY THREE DECADES since Edward Abbey drained his last can of beer and flung it onto a Forest Service byway, his...
Brad Rassler 1 min read
MANY A DETROITER’s first ski turns were on a mounded landfill in southeastern Michigan called Mt. Holly, which provided vertically...
Brad Rassler 5 min read
IN TWO WEEKS, U.S. cross country skier Andy Newell will travel to Sochi, Russia to compete in the Winter Olympics....
Michael P. Branch 9 min read
Sarah nods. “Free ice water. Hand-painted road signs. Free coffee and doughnuts for vets. And jackalopes. That’s what we’re about."
Mark Twain 21 min read
OUR GUIDES, HIRED ON THE GEMMI, were already at Zermatt when we reached there. So there was nothing to interfere...
E. Pauline Johnson 4 min read
The Song My Paddle Sings West wind, blow from your prairie nest, Blow from the mountains, blow from the west....
Brad Rassler 17 min read
IN AN OBSCURE WASH in the high Mojave stand two domes, their north faces steeped in shadows. Four friends scrutinize the...
Brad Rassler 18 min read
If you’re mourning the shortage of Sierra snow, you might do well to stock up on Kleenex. Ski journalist and author Porter...
Brad Rassler 8 min read
Originally published in California City Sports. I WAS DISTRACTED BY maniacal laughter coming from my partner. I turned and beheld a...
Christopher Ketcham 5 min read
WHEN I’M IN BOISE I drink with Brian Ertz at the bar in the basement of the Idanha Hotel, where...
Brad Rassler 14 min read
IN THE PREDAWN HOURS of a recent summer day, Peter Mayfield walked through the skeletal remains of Manzanar, the mothballed...
Dick Dorworth 10 min read
Most people assume they are capable of grasping the concepts of a minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade and even a century, and how their lives are lived and measured in those terms.
Michael P. Cohen 11 min read
When I see these stoned counters in other people’s houses, they seem, in their shape and their function, like places of business or places of death.
Brad Rassler 12 min read
Documents and photos, mostly from the Don C. Jensen Collection at the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center. Although the...
Michelle Nijhuis 19 min read
I DON’T EVEN REMEMBER my first ride. When I was a young teenager, growing up in southern Oregon, my dad...
Henry David Thoreau 54 min read
I WISH TO SPEAK A WORD for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture...
Michael P. Branch 11 min read
EVERY TIME Chautauqua season rolls around, I feel compelled to rant about this bizarre cultural practice, which Teddy Roosevelt once...
Brad Rassler 56 min read
Immortality of narrative is dependent on the mortality of beings.