A couple from Carbondale became lost in a blizzard on Friday and couldn’t find the mountain hut where they’d agreed to meet some friends. Searchers roamed the woods on snowmobiles, but couldn’t find them in the storm. It’s unclear whether they were still looking for them when the duo climbed out of their snow cave [ more... ]

Brad Zdanivsky was climbing for years before he fell asleep at the wheel of his car coming home from a funeral. He was 18 years old and a quadriplegic after the accident, but the guy still climbed more days that I did last year. Now at 33, he’s worked with software developers and engineers to [ more... ]

Join superhunk Bear Grylls for a weekend of one-on-one bromance. The rules of proximity infatuation are sure to kick in while sharing bodyheat in the Outback or just taking a hot tub at the all-inclusive resort where the crew actually kicks back at the end of every day of filming. The Man vs. Wild star [ more... ]

Good god. I want to shoot myself in the face taking the bus across the state. They stop every 10 miles to drop-off and pick-up, the bus smells worse than a dive bar and has even more drunk people, and they take forever to get anywhere. Apparently it didn’t bother National Geographic Traveler writer Andrew [ more... ]

Brian Head ski resort in Southern Utah is up for sale with the asking price at $34 million. They say they average more than $6.8 million and 141,000 skiers each year. The last owner suffered a heart attack and died in 2008, so it’s not exactly a low-stress job. At this crazy price, you could [ more... ]

The Arizona legislature has slashed funding for state parks by 80% since 2007. The state’s already closed five parks, and several more are waiting to run out of money and be shut down. But some Arizona desert lovers are coming up with cash to keep them open. One former Texan rolled into a parks meeting [ more... ]

It must be so weird for the families of the guys who go and live among the bears. You have to assume that you did something wrong to drive your child to a surrogate family of wild animals. Lynn Rogers has been hanging out with black bears in Minnesota for ages, and he even stuck [ more... ]

NASA scientists were intrigued when they came across an amateur photographer’s shots taken 20 miles above the earth’s surface. “A guy phoned up who worked for NASA who was interested in how we took the pictures. He wanted to know how the hell we did it.” They assumed he used a homemade rocket to capture [ more... ]

A local news station in Oregon hit paydirt when their traffic chopper spotted two missing hikers. The 23-year-old and 24-year-old were prepared for the cold and snow, but had hoped not to spend the night on Mt Defiance after getting lost in the afternoon. The KGW Sky 8 helicopter spotted them and alerted local authorities [ more... ]

Some hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park are becoming so populated that the park rangers are finding measurable spikes in bacteria in the groundwater caused by human waste. Their solution has been to hand out free poop bags at the trailhead and ask people to pack it out. “For a lot of folks, it’s a [ more... ]