Adventure
Ground-level gods
Someone else must have declared by now that if you truly want to know a place, you have to see it from the view granted by your own feet. You have to slow down and take a path that meanders...
Pot studies edition: what’s hot, what’s not
The release of several recent studies shed light on a number of commonly held associations with marijuana use, such as lung health, crime rates...
Stuntwoman Faith Dickey walks slackline between speeding semis
Boulder slackliner "Sketchy" Andy Lewis drew a lot of attention for his performance alongside Madonna in February's Super Bowl halftime show. But extreme slackliner Faith Dickey might have just upstaged him in a stunt for a Volvo commercial...
Ahead of the finish line
The 5:30 a.m. alarm buzzer came a little early, but that was about the only bump in the road along the way to our completion of the 2013 Bolder Boulder. After 16 weeks of training (see “Training for more than a race,” Adventure, May 23), my 9-year-old son Tim and I ...
Prevent meltdowns on the slopes
Skiing can be fun for the whole family, but it takes a little work. The key to introducing your kids to skiing or snowboarding is to take it slow...
On the groad
Not far out of the gates of the “Central Iowa Rock Road Endurance Metric” (or CIRREM, as it’s known in gravel circles), riders started going down on the dirt road in the middle of Iowa. A big guy on my left spilled hard and almost took me out. Another one up front ...
Photography camp teaches outdoors photo skills
For the second year, a photography camp in South America will teach both amateur and professional photogs a specific "secret" of the industry: How to take professional ski photographs...
Deep space climb
So you’ve bagged the Seven Summits — the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. Great. You’ve crushed the most difficult bouldering problems. Bravo. You’ve even scaled 5.15 and are now pushing the grading system even higher. Right on...
From sea to peak
The mountain known as K2 is also known as “Savage Mountain.” Its sheer, jagged slopes rise from Pakistan’s Karakoram Valley floor and culminate in...
Training for more than a race
It was like running on a treadmill — except that we were outside...

















