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"Picture a climber in your head. What does that person look like? Sound like? Act like? The institutions that caused this gap in the first place are deeply entrenched and won’t just go away."
Great personal essay by Indigo Johnson in Climbing on the lack of diversity in the rock-climbing community.
One thing that's worse than your friend who's really into bouldering? Professional commentators at bouldering competitions.
We like a good skateboard video as much as the next person, but especially when it takes place in the snow.
Oh, good: the affordable Baja blanket, aka "the classic Mexican drug rug," has been reimagined for hipster millenials and now costs $129.
Got those tiny-home tinglings? Want to live #vanlife for real? (And not just for the romantic encounters?) Vanual will walk you through all the steps of being the Dwell-subscribing dirtbag of your dreams.
Nearly all ski movies are dumb and macho, but sometimes they're not. Professional snowboarder Alex Yoder visits Petran, Turkey, where people have been snowboarding for roughly 300 years.
The science of carb-loading seems a little hodgepodge, but ultramarathoner Karl Meltzer went whole hog: Fueled by bacon, beer, candy, and ice cream, the 48-year-old finished the Appalachian Trail in record time, 45 days, 22 hours, and 38 minutes to cover 2,190 miles. Interestingly, an unknown hiker may have just broken every Appalachian Trail record, including Meltzer's, but she didn't bring along a GPS device to prove her claim.
One hidden cost to preserving and promoting special places: "last-chance tourists" will show up and destroy everything.
See also: "Great Barrier Reef coral dead, damaged from bleaching event, survey finds."
We bemoan the sameness of outdoors culture, we despise all bros and bras, and we absolutely love anyone who will push a catamaran down a mountain.
