I SHOT IT is a photography website contest where you submit your photos under certain themes and the individual that has the best shot gets paid an amount of cash based on the volume of photos submitted. It’s an interesting idea, I mean, now that digital photography is so prevalent we all have piles of [ more... ]

Ney Grant has a Cessna T210 and a love for scooting around his corner of the world on adventures. Over the course of 15 years he put together this slideshow and video of taking his family around to bike, whale watch, climb, etc. This video is the documentation of 100 of their adventures. You may watch it and think “I wish I had a little flying coffin that I could use to shuttle to adventures,” and you may feel envious. If this is the case, my note to you: This guy may have a plane, but you (likely) have much better taste in music.

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A Wisconsin man noticed a young bear chasing his dog and stepped out of his cabin to call the dog inside. The dog made his getaway, but he man was not so quick. The bear took him down, biting his neck and back. He escaped, only to get tackled again before reaching the door. His [ more... ]

Barely two weeks ago, the speed record from the top of Mont Blanc to Chamonix was broken by French skiers Antoine Montegani and Nicolas Anthonioz, who dropped the 12,000 or so vertical in 32 minutes (see video below). Now the Chamonix-Mont Blanc-Chamonix speed record has fallen to French ski mountaineer Mattheo Jacquemond, who went from [ more... ]

According to the Wall Street Journal, there’s an anti-Lycra backlash sweeping through the cycling world, and it’s because nobody wants to be associated with cheaters, dopers, and those who cry on Oprah and/or wear matching kit. More likely is that this story wouldn’t have gotten attention if it didn’t have a Lance Armstrong hook to [ more... ]

Over the course of six years photographer Tim Nunn and surfer Ian Battrick patrolled the coasts of Norway, Canada, and Scotland catching waves and shooting photos. They created this new book, Numb. While 6mm wetsuits are a bit of a bear, and there were sometimes actual bears waiting on shore, at least they never had to fight their way through crowded lineups. I just wonder why they didn’t also pack a video camera during those six years.

Biologist Brad Josephs set up a GoPro to capture some footage of a grizzly bear in Alaska. It went better than planned. Watching it, you get a good idea of what it’d look like if a bear ever decided to casually eat you. Notice the blood on its snout. Brad says that amazingly his GoPro survived with no damage. Just how’d he get this footage? Maybe he rubbed it with a steak before planting it.

Patrick Ward of Lyons, Colorado was known to stand up during town meetings and rant at length that hat cyclists “don’t belong in Lyons” and “they certainly don’t belong in the foothills around Lyons.” This week he was charged with vehicular manslaughter after running over and killing 47-year-old cyclist Michel Van Duym, an avid rider [ more... ]

San Francisco area photographer Eric Dugan managed to get an amazing image: a blackbird catching a ride on a red-tailed hawk’s back in mid-air. You can see the strange series on Eric’s website. The story’s gotten a bit of traction, and appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle this week. The blackbird wasn’t a hop on, [ more... ]

It has been a loooong time in the wilderness for the status of placing climbing bolts in federal wilderness. In June 1998 the U.S. Forest Service banned all fixed climbing anchors within the designated wilderness areas under its jurisdiction. This didn’t just mean permanent bolts: It meant that pitons, nuts, and pretty much any form [ more... ]