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Lowe Alpine Air Zone Centro 35+10: Desert Trekker
Frequently I am accused of being a pack snob. It started way back in college when I had a part-time job sewing backpacks for a small outdoor company in Bellingham, WA. The owner and I would stay late tweaking, modifying and otherwise trying to improve the current line of packs as well as our personal…
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Ascending The Giants
For a pair of arborist-adventurers, climbing isn’t just something to do on a cliff. A journey into the canopy of Washington’s Olympic National Park.
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Obsession and Ingenuity, Part IV: Kansas
“We live in Lawrence, Kansas, my friend, a small college town lost in a sea of plains. If by local crag you mean a two-hour drive to some crumbling, dripping limestone in Missouri, then sure, that’s our local crag.”
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Arc’teryx R-320 Harness: Everything You Want, Nothing You Don’t
“It’s the single piece of gear I’m excited about buying this year,” said Nic, my gearhead friend, about the new line of Arc’teryx harnesses. It was an unusual comment–the thought of controlled spending–for someone who has a steady job and climbs or skis every day. Nevertheless, I told Nic he had his priorities straight. If…
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Opening Photos: The Bradford Washburn Museum of American Mountaineering
The Bradford Washburn Museum of American Mountaineering opened last weekend in Golden, CO. The museum will honor the late Bradford Washburn and America’s many mountaineers.
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Dying for Everest
Mark Ingles became the first double amputee to summit Mt. Everest. However, he was greeted not with a hero’s welcome but with media condemnation when it became known that he had passed Briton David Sharp near the summit and left him to die.
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Bad Climbing Humor at its Finest
I’ve never purported to be the funniest guy on the interweb, but it blows my mind just how bad some of this stuff is. And by “some of this stuff,” I mean this website…
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Rab Latok Alpine Jacket: Expectations Bested
When I picked up Rab’s Latok Alpine jacket for the first time I was skeptical. The Latok was lighter than any of the performance hard shells I’d worn previously, and the bright orange eVent label on the sleeve made me wary. Adding to my incredulity, I had never heard of Rab. Learning to love the…
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Finding Balance
A short film that explores the relationship between the outdoors and the creative energy that fuels Lucas Reynolds’s music.
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Remembering Sir Edmund Hillary
Forty Kiwi mountaineers raised their axes as one to form the New Zealand Alpine Club’s honor guard when Sir Edmund Hillary’s coffin emerged…
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