Propelled by Segway, First Person Scooters Coast to Coast On August 25th, exactly two months after setting off, Graham Pollard became the first person to scooter across the United States. He completed the 4,000-mile journey on a Segway Ninebot KickScooter Max traveling at a max speed of 18.6 mph. The venture mostly followed the TransAmerica Trail, a bike route from coast to coast. Chasing Pollard across the country, Christian Boyle and […] Alex Camerino | August 26, 2020 0 Comments
Trip Report: The Stunning Central California Coast I voyaged down the Central California coast this week. The trip was sublime. Medium-sized mushy waves. The best car-camping campsites of my life. Exquisite sunsets. Vicious full-moonrises. 20 dolphins jumping & frolicking 100′ off the beach for 30-minutes whilst I ate breakfast. Cool, wet waterfalls. Hummingbirds. International Space Station zipping by. Bunnies everywhere. Bats like crazy at sunset. Fast-flowing fog. […] Trip Report Miles Clark | August 10, 2020 2 Comments
2020: The Summer of No Camps Sleepaway summer camps are unique to the United States, but this summer most have closed their doors. This year over 15,000 camps have chosen not to open due to the risks of COVID-19. With over 20 million children in the US attending summer camps annually what will those kids be doing if camp is not an option? Kids at Home […] Alex Camerino | July 16, 2020 0 Comments
Woodward Opens Camps for Summer 2020 Despite COVID-19 Surge Woodward, a well-known sports camp with almost a dozen locations across the US, announced that their summer camps will be open as of this week despite rising COVID-19 cases across the country. Related: VIDEO: Cool Video Shot at Woodward Copper, CO – Make Time To Do the Things You Enjoy Most They offer day camps or sleep-away camps for kids […] Clay Malott | July 10, 2020 0 Comments
Skiing in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca: Copa and Quitaraju This May and June I had the opportunity to join a trip to try and ski some high peaks in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca. This report is from the third part of our trip: attempts to ski Nevado Copa and Quitaraju. Check out the first and second parts of our trip here: Quebrada Ishinca and Artesonraju. Having been denied summits twice in a […] Climbing Lee Lyon | June 25, 2013 4 Comments
Solo… 8 Lonely Days Under Norway’s Midnight Sun (editor’s note: Our good friend, Zach Paley, has been living in the Arctic Circle of Norway for the past month. He works on a boat, camps, skis, writes, and takes stunning photographs. In this entry, Zach finds himself solo camping and skiing for 8 days in gorgeous Lyngen, Norway) The life I had been living had to end. No […] Zach Paley | June 4, 2013 12 Comments
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