Top Frontside Skis 2013: Rossignol Pursuit HP
ROSSIGNOL PURSUIT HP At the top of Rossi's new line of speed-demon groomer skis, the HP has high-performance written all over it (or is...
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Book Review: George Black's 'Empire Of Shadows'
Whenever my country's absurd politics wear me out, I remind myself that we were the first nation to have a true national park: Yellowstone. Sometimes, I'll even...
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Holiday Guide 2012: Best Mountain Books
As the holiday season approaches, it's easy to spend hours wading through catalogs to find the latest and sweetest gear gifts. But if you don't have the...
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Best Snowboards 2013: Burton Easy Livin
BURTON EASY LIVIN If there is one board here to love for its graphics alone ... meet Burton's Grateful Dead-inspired Easy Livin snowboard. Shred...
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Everest Trash Becomes Art In Nepal
While it took more than two years for porters and yaks to haul eight tons of trash from Mount Everest, it took just a month for Nepalese...
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Kayaker Attempts New Grand Canyon Speed Record
[embedImage=https://www.theactivetimes.com/sites/default/files/u9331/grand-canyon-speed-run-640x393.jpg] The route for the speed record attempt (credit: Canoe & Kayak) While the average athlete may fit in a workout before chowing down on...
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Digging Deep: Avalanche Shovels, Probes
Beacons, with their electronic wizardry, get all the attention when people consider backcountry gear, but shovels and probes are the workers in the trenches—almost literally speaking—and are...
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Climbing Legend Patrick Edlinger Dies At 52
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/JvsgHWKJOUA]Pioneering French climber Patrick Edlinger died at the age of 52 on Friday in his home in La Palud-sur-Verdon, France. The cause of his death is unknown.Edlinger,...
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Native American Petroglyphs Stolen, Destroyed In California
Sacred petroglyphs around Bishop, California, have been defaced and stolen, according to federal authorities.About 3,500 years ago, ancient hunters and gatherers around present day Bishop etched deer,...
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The People's Choice: Banff 2012, Part V
All right, it's a film festival. And the manic week in Banff reaches its climax on Sunday evening, when the prizes in several categories of cinematic excellence...
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Book Review: There Are Other Rivers
I've long been a fan of British adventurer Alastair Humphreys. He's ridden his bike around the world, rowed the Atlantic and trekked across Iceland. Soon he'll even...
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Video: Red Bull's "Athlete-Powered" Machine
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/M0jmSsQ5ptw?rel=0]Red Bull calls this athlete-powered Rube Goldberg contraption "Kluge." Kluge, if you're wondering is a slang word based on the same root as the German word klug,...
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Night Of The Legends And New Kids: Banff 2012, Part IV
The Banff festival reaches its frenzied peak on the weekend, when films stream nonstop before packed houses in both the Eric Harvie and Margaret Greenham Theatres. Many...
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U.S. Spooks Joining Fight Against African Poachers
It's no secret I love Africa. It's gotten into my soul, adventurous place that it is, with its wild places, wonderful cultures and the most amazing displays...
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The Best Mountain Book Ever Written
Well, they asked for it, proposing a panel with such an ex cathedra title as "The Best Mountain Book Ever Written." So it wasn't surprising when Katie...
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Watch: A Skier's Journey, Dubai
"In the unlikeliest of places, there is a community of committed skiers."In the second episode of filmmaker Jordan Manley's A Skier's Journey, the unlikeliest of places is...
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Riffing On Mallory, Everest And Sex: Banff 2012, Part II
The biggest event at Banff is the Saturday evening presentation, which opens with the festival's semi-mythic film trailer. As the room darkens, the big screen lights up...
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John Denver Is Back (On Commemorative Skis)
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/aB2E1D5hrdI] If you can't already tell from this old school video, John Denver really loved to ski. The 70s musician, who became famous for songs...
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Top All-Mountain Skis 2013
"One-ski quiver" is perhaps the most clichéd phrase in modern ski journalism (or maybe it's "stoke;" either way, I'm guilty of both). Every time I read it,...
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Adventure Travel Tip: The Sugar Slip Up
"When traveling through developing nations, resist the urge to hand out candy to the children that you meet—they don't likely receive proper dental care. Instead, bring a...
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Blind Adventurer Prepares To Kayak The Colorado
Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind person to summit Mount Everest, is preparing to take on his biggest challenge yet: Kayaking the Colorado River."This is 10 times scarier...
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You Had To Be There: Banff 2012, Part I
I was eating a burger on the patio of the Cowgirl in Santa Fe. It was a breezy day in May 2008, with the sun dancing in...
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'Chasing Ice' And Capturing Climate Change: Q&A With James Balog
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/eIZTMVNBjc4] There is a moment in Chasing Ice, the new documentary film, when environmental photographer James Balog almost loses it, and rightly so. He is perched...
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The Final Push
Right now, even as the fall Himalayan climbing season has mostly wrapped, American climber Chad Kellogg is still out there, possibly gazing up at Nepal's highest virgin...
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UPDATE: Voters Block Study To Drain Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy
A controversial vote by San Francisco residents on Sunday put another nail in the coffin for Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley, or what John Muir called...
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Shell Games: The Right Winter Outerwear
Picking layers for a day of skiing or snowboarding in the backcountry or sidecountry isn't all that difficult, as long as you figure out two things: 1)...
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Video: Surfing The Streets Of NYC
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/P_iWudm0y7o]Ever wanted to surf through New York City? These guys did (and no, not during the time that Hurricane Sandy flooded lower Manhattan). The urban surfers instead...
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Autumn Climbing Review: Red River Gorge
The Red River Gorge in east-central Kentucky is a mecca for climbers. Full of waterfalls, rock shelters and sandstone cliffs and arches, the gorgeous landscape is matched...
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In Grizzly Country: Too Close For Comfort?
A man from San Diego was killed by a grizzly bear recently, on the Toklat River in Alaska on the same overcast day that my son and...
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Riding A Bike To The South Pole
[embedImage=https://www.theactivetimes.com/sites/default/files/u8555/eric_larsen_fat_bike_embed.jpg] Three Poles explorer Eric Larsen recently announced an attempt on his dream expedition, cycling from the coast of Antarctica at Hercules Inlet (80°S) to the Geographic...
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Adventure Travel Tip: Skip Surprise Seasickness
"If you've never been on a boat tour, don't guess when it comes to seasickness. People often forget that it can be a problem, but there's nothing...
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UPDATE: Search For Bounty Captain Called Off, And His Decisions Questioned
It was no hurricane movie out on the Atlantic last night. In a harrowing situation reminiscent of The Perfect Storm, three crewmembers of the tall ship replica HMS...
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Best Ski Boots 2013
No one really makes bad ski boots anymore. In fact, there are so many quality boots on the market it's hard to decide which boots are best...
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