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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. […]

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Miles Clark | August 10, 2020
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Trip Report: Skiing Antarctica With Ice Axe Expeditions 2017

**All photos in this article are from Ice Axe Expeditions’ 2017 Antarctica trip. Powder & Sunshine.  Powder & Sunshine are what defined the October/November 2017 Ice Axe Expeditions Antarctica ski trip.  Crisp, dry powder skiing isn’t even thought to happen in Antarctica, we know.  But in late October 2017, we skied boot deep, dreamy powder on the Antarctic Peninsula. The […]

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Miles Clark | March 8, 2018
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“The Spirit of Sailing” | Sailing Some of The Most Dangerous Waters In The World

“Calling coalition warships, vessel hijacked. Pirates on board, 19 crew in locked room. We are relaying from handheld VHF crew has with them. We see a fire on poop deck, skiff still attached on starboard side, four armed pirates on board. The ship is not moving, the vessel is hijacked. Our coordinates are..” As we left India the second week […]

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Lucas Ayoub | May 22, 2017
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“Watermelon Snow” Is Accelerating The Speed At Which Glaciers Melt

According to a study published in Nature Communications, there are certain species of green algae that thrive in snow, that actually take on a red hue, as does the snow they’re residing in. As they take over the snow, they reduce the reflectivity or “albedo” of the snow or ice, which accelerates the rate at which they melt. This is horrible […]

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Chris Wallner | June 27, 2016
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Get Blown Away By This List Of The 7 Windiest Places On Earth

According to a list generated by Environmental Experts, the seven windiest places on Earth will truly blow you away from the sheer force of nature. Wind can change a lot in every situation, it can blow with you or against you, it can carry warm and cool air, it can threaten your life or it can fuel your favorite sport, but […]

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Chris Wallner | May 18, 2016
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November 2013 = Warmest November on Record for Land & Sea

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November, 2013 was the warmest November on record for both air temperatures as well as sea temperatures since records began in 1880. We’ll let NOAA display the facts supporting all this. It very well may be true the sports of skiing and snowboarding have a limited future as global temperatures continue to rise. Learn much much more about this topic from NOAA here: […]

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SnowBrains | December 17, 2013
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