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If the updates in this space have been a little spotty the last few days, it’s because I’m currently a couple hundred miles above the Arctic Circle in Norway’s Lyngen Alps, working on a backcountry skiing piece for my mates at Powder. Norway is the land of birch trees, and they ...
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theadventurelife.org - 5 days ago
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It’s tough to say which is more entertaining,
seeing a man get struck repeatedly by lightning or...
the great art direction in this ad for Tetra Pak. My money’s on the art direction. The plaid Thermos, the Jeep tucked into almost every shot, the Schwinn Sting-Ray lurking in the ...
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When Lightning Strikes Twice. Make Three Times. Make That…
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There are few pieces of gear that better illustrate the saying “sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you” than climbing skins. These amazing devices stick to the bottom of your skis–they have a directional nap, like an animal’s fur, that allows the ski to ...
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theadventurelife.org - 10 days ago
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You don’t have to be a skier to
appreciate this clever stop-motion film, but it helps in...
order to understand the title. “Pillow Line” refers to the delightful mushrooms of snow that form on top of boulders–when the snow is deep enough and the slope steep enough, you can ...
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‘Pillow Line’ Is A Charming Stop-Motion Winter Delight
The Adventure Life, Wagner Skis, and Visit Telluride are psyched to announce that Ryan Hollington has won the season-long “Share Your Ski Stoke” contest. Judges from Skiing Magazine, Ski Press, Wagner, T-Ride, and this site picked Hollington’s video as the purist expression of ...
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theadventurelife.org - 11 days ago
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Climbers Mikey Schaefer, Kate Rutherford, Brittany Griffith, and
Jonathan Thesenga recently spent eight days in the jungle...
of Venezuela, establishing a new 1,100-foot 5.12 free climb on the east face of Acopan Tepui. The four flew to the small village of Yunek in Venezuela’s stunning and ...
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8 Days of Climbing + 10 Pounds of Tequila = New ...
theadventurelife.org - 11 days ago
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In a world transfixed by the new, Rachel
Sussman is obsessed with the old. Not just old–ancient....
The Brooklyn-based photographer has frequent-flown all over the world the last few years documenting the planet’s oldest living organisms. It’s a quest that seems as much fueled by ...
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The Gallery of the OIdest Living Things in the World
theadventurelife.org - 12 days ago
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Back in high school, when I was going
through life guard training (”lesson 1: how to spin...
your whistle without hitting yourself in the face”), one of the first things we learned was the simple survival skill called the dead man’s float. It had nothing to do with swimming or ...
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60-Second Expert: How to Make a Skiing Kick Turn
theadventurelife.org - 13 days ago
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You’d think a country as surf-crazy as New
Zealand would have come up with this tasty bit...
of marketing, but no, it was the Brits. British surfing apparel company Finisterre has just started using wool in its clothes and had a rather ingenious idea about spreading the word.
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And the Oscar For Best Use of Sheep Goes To…
theadventurelife.org - 15 days ago
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One sweater won’t change the world, but it
might change how you see it. High-end cycling apparel...
maker Rapha teamed with Apolis Activism to design the Transit Elite cycling sweater, and they in turned partnered with Citta Himalaya, a non-profit, to have the sweaters made at Citta’s ...
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Clothes Make the Man…And They Make A Difference for ...
theadventurelife.org - 16 days ago
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In April 1991, Costa Rica was struck by
a 7.6 or 7.7 scale earthquake (experts still don’t...
agree on the magnitude). My girlfriend (now wife) Joni and I were in the far southeastern corner of the country, warming up in the Caribbean after a long winter. On this day, we’d rented bikes in a village ...
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Surviving A Massive Earthquake and Tsunami: What It ...
theadventurelife.org - 17 days ago
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When most surf photographers shoot empty waves, they
focus on the prosaic–the wave’s potential for surfing or...
its typical and obvious beauty…the barrel, the corduroy stacked up to the horizon, the molten glass backlit at sunset. You know–post cards. They rarely dig ...
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Waves That Will Make You Say ‘Hurry Up, Summer’
theadventurelife.org - 18 days ago
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Propagation is a dirty word. And while you
might not use it in everyday conversation–or even having...
a working familiarity with its meaning–if you’re a snow traveler it can send chills down your spine. The reason, in the context of snow, is because propagation describes an ...
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The New Snow Test That Could Save Your Life
theadventurelife.org - 19 days ago
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Days are short enough as it is without
these dang earthquakes getting in the way: According to...
NASA, the Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile may have shortened the length of each earth day. Here’s what the space agents had to say: JPL research scientist Richard Gross computed how ...
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Earth’s Day Shortened, Axis Tilted By Chile Earthquake
theadventurelife.org - 19 days ago
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As job descriptions go, the arborist’s is pretty
badass: climb trees all day with a chainsaw, handsaws,...
and other sharp objects on your belt. Lash your riggings onto elements that can bend or break. Oh, and be careful not to cut your own rope. These beautiful glimpses into the life of ...
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The Greenest Job? Might Be Professional Tree Climber
theadventurelife.org - 20 days ago
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You think you know how to clean your
goggles? Well, maybe you do. But that’s what I...
thought, too, and after scratching more than a few pairs I thought I’d check with experts at the goggle manufacturers themselves to get some recommendations. MORE 60-SECOND EXPERT TIPS How to Dry ...
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60-Second Expert: The Right Way to Clean Your Goggles
It’s tough to say which is more entertaining in this 1970s ski jumping segment from Dick Barrymore, the clothes or the sheer infinite number of ways proto-huckers can go cattywampus in the air. Eventually, you start pulling for someone to stick a landing…but not for a while. Seeing ...
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theadventurelife.org - 21 days ago
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At some point pretty soon, gorgeous time lapse
movies of the night sky are going to get...
old–but not yet. This sequence from the top of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii is well worth the 60 seconds to watch. It’s a reminder and an inspiration to get out and stay out, to [...]
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Time Lapse of the Milky Way over Hawaii
theadventurelife.org - 22 days ago
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The last few months, in light of inconsistencies
in a 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report,...
intelligence, common sense, and responsibility to our children have come under assault by climate change skeptics. Despite inaccuracies in the report, the balance of evidence continues to ...
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Al Gore: The Truth, Even With Mistakes, Is Still ...
theadventurelife.org - 22 days ago
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With the boom in inexpensive but high-quality digital
gear, time lapses are very of the moment, and...
what makes this 24-hour cycle in the Britain’s Lake District so very cool is that the camera makes two rotations around the scene. The world is spinning on two axes, which, along with the ...
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24 Hours in the Lake District
