The Winter Of His Disbelief John Dittli 10 min readI’M NOT A SUPERSTITIOUS GUY, BUT REALLY, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. I’m no meteorologist either, but after 35 years of...Read More
Sochi Olympians Speak Out On Climate Change Brad Rassler 5 min readIN TWO WEEKS, U.S. cross country skier Andy Newell will travel to Sochi, Russia to compete in the Winter Olympics....Read More
The Patagonia Catalog’s Unforgivable Whiteness Brad Rassler 2 min readI 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.Read More
The Jensen Archive Brad Rassler 12 min readDocuments and photos, mostly from the Don C. Jensen Collection at the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center. Although the...Read More
Porter Fox Goes Deep Brad Rassler 18 min readIf you’re mourning the shortage of Sierra snow, you might do well to stock up on Kleenex. Ski journalist and author Porter...Read More
Andy and Brad’s Eastside Adventure Brad Rassler 8 min readOriginally published in California City Sports. I WAS DISTRACTED BY maniacal laughter coming from my partner. I turned and beheld a...Read More
Abbey’s Back Brad Rassler 6 min readTHOUGH IT’S BEEN NEARLY THREE DECADES since Edward Abbey drained his last can of beer and flung it onto a Forest Service byway, his...Read More
From Trash to Ash to Stash: Copenhagen’s New Waste-to-Energy Ski Slope Brad Rassler 1 min readMANY A DETROITER’s first ski turns were on a mounded landfill in southeastern Michigan called Mt. Holly, which provided vertically...Read More