I was dating a woman who was a lawyer, and I attended some lawyer event where their group sat in the corner of a downtown bar with lots of mirrors, chandeliers, and grossly overpriced drinks. A woman was walking down an open staircase that led to where our group was standing, and she lost her [ more... ]

Remember that Best Job in the World Contest? The winner would become caretaker of a private island in Australia for six months and collect a salary of $103,000 (AUS). The whole thing was perpetrated by the Australian Tourism Board, who hadn’t hit a publicity homerun like this contest since Crocodile Dundee. Well that great publicity [ more... ]

In the last two weeks a personal locator beacon has sent Colorado’s Alpine Rescue Team into a frenzy only to be deactivated once they commence their search. The ACR PLB-300 MicrOFix is an older model that doesn’t include a GPS locator, so the searchers only know that someone’s has set one off within a 12-mile [ more... ]

A church in Canada is being turned into a rock climbing gym. This is the second church I’ve seen converted into a rock gym; I guess the high ceilings and low sales prices make them attractive. I’m not sure how future civilizations will judge us when their archeologists discover we converted churches to synthetic rock [ more... ]

Critics are insisting that the Storybook Wolf photo by Jose Luis Rodriguez is a shot of tame wolf, making it ineligible to win the world’s largest nature photo competition. Judges give preference to wild animals, so if a tame animal is used in a staged photo, the photographer must declare it prior judging. Rodriguez is [ more... ]

Duck the rope at Sun Peaks Resort in British Columbia and don’t expect much in the way of ski patrol help if you blow out a knee. The resort won’t be responsible for your safety if you head out of bounds, but if you can get a hold of someone at the ticket office while [ more... ]

180 South is a film inspired by a 10,000 mile trip that Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins took in 1968. At the beginning of the film, Chouinard says that it was this trip that charged the duo with working to protect some the last wild places on earth. They would later create juggernaut clothing companies (Patagonia and North Face), which they’d eventually use to finance buying up land so that they might protect it.

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A Nevada couple punched ‘shortest route’ into their car’s GPS and blindly followed it down a snow-choked remote forest road. We’re making great time! The couple, both in their sixties, had the foresight to prepare for emergencies and carried water and food that lasted them the three days they spent lost in the woods. After [ more... ]

Vail’s normal $97-per-day lift ticket prices will fall to $87 from January 27th to January 31st. The only catch is that you have to sign-up for Vail Gay Ski Week. I could see families in the Midwest doing this to save some cash, then hitting up Friday Night Beer Bust with its cowboy themed party [ more... ]

A Michigan man hiked to the summit of a 14,265-foot peak south of Breckenridge last week with a friend and met a group of onlookers while preparing to ski-glide down the slope. The sport involves wearing a small parachute that allows you to intermittently ski and hang glide as the terrain and wind allow. This [ more... ]