Tweet This article first appeared in The Washington Post. It was a dream destined to die on its improbable, quixotic vine. And at many turns…
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Tweet Descending a cliff used to be a straightforward affair: Climb down on your own two feet, base jump or zip on a squirrel suit…
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Tweet This article appeared originally in The Washington Post Chip Chase is wrong on this one. “There’s no snow culture in West Virginia,” he tells…
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A father and son take on an ambitious backcountry camping trip in the Grand Canyon.
5 CommentsTweet This story appeared originally in The Washington Post Shafer Canyon Road rises from the Utah desert like a coiled snake, six switchbacks and 1,200…
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Tweet This article originally appeared in The Washington Post. “This ain’t resort diving.” I’m on the phone with Dave Sommers asking about booking a scuba…
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Tweet Okay, I get it: I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. So as an inveterate adventure traveler facing a months-long adventure deficit, I decided in mid-March that…
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Tweet This article originally appeared in The Washington Post This rain — relentless, chilling, downright vengeful — wasn’t in the brochure. I am sitting on…
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Tweet From a distance, it probably looks like I’m having fun. I am off the northeast coast of Brazil, kitesurfing across one of the largest…
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Tweet The road to untracked powder is paved with cold, sweaty discomfort. Or so I have convinced myself as I labor up a wintry mountainside,…
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