Panorama Mountain Village ski resort isn’t near anything. It’s outside B.C.’s East Kootenay and closer to the tiny village of Windermere. So that may explain why a fire that broke out Wednesday around one in the morning managed to pretty much destroy the entire top floor of 1000 Peaks Lodge before an eventual 27 firefighters [ more... ]

Trail maintenance volunteers at the Max Patch mountain bald on the AT at the Carolina/Tennessee border arrived to find that some ATV riders had knocked down fences and carved paths and ruts along a section of trail. Dwayne Stutzman, one of three volunteers who adopted this A.T. section, says, “In almost 20 years as a [ more... ]

We are selfish little fun hogs who filter almost all news through the prism of outdoor recreation, but you know, things like thin snowpack and lack of water have much more profound impacts than just a lack of blower — and with 56 percent of the United States in formal drought conditions, it’s looking to [ more... ]

The Boulder Report has finally turned its attention away from pro cycling, bringing insight and acuity to a much more worthy and interesting topic: How the bike industry is like the beer industry. After visiting last week’s North American Handmade Bike Show, Joe Lindsey notes that both are dominated by a handful large brands, but [ more... ]

Some day, you might grow up to be Jay Petervary. But probably not. The Idaho strongman has set long-distance bike records, including the Tour Divide race solo and tandem, and just stomped the Iditabike record, riding 350 miles from Knik Lake to McGrath in two days, 19 hours, and 16 minutes — 10 hours faster [ more... ]

The latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue put Kate Upton in a bikini in Antarctica. Now, I’d thought that it would take a long time for Sports Illustrated to reach Siberia, but it seems many of the women there are emulating her moves, snowboarding in swimwear during -40C (-40F) temperatures. It’s a Daily Mail article, so [ more... ]

Mirror River // source to sea in 3 minutes from Will Stauffer-Norris on Vimeo.

 
Will Stauffer-Norris spent 113 days paddling down the Green and Colorado Rivers from source to sea. That seems like a long time, but imagine how much longer it would have taken if he’d gone sea to source. He also did us the tremendous favor of compressing his entire kayaking journey down to 3 minutes (we all know how some people can be with vacation photos…). I wonder what the customs officials are like on the irrigation canals in Mexico. This is his video, Mirror River.

One of the the nation’s largest utilities agreed Monday to stop burning coal by 2015 at three power plants in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky and replace a portion of that supply with new wind and solar plants in Indiana and Michigan. American Electric Power will spend $5 billion to install pollution controls on plants in [ more... ]

A tradition that dates back to English common law holds that even if a river or stream passes through private property, anyone has the right to paddle it. And now a judge in New York state has upheld that principle, saying paddlers have the right to cross private land via a small stream connecting two [ more... ]

Searchers found 51-year-old Robin Bird lying in mud along the Bluff Springs Trail at 11:30pm unresponsive and suffering from hypothermia and severe dehydration. Authorities say she would not have survived the night. The hiker was on a quest for the Lost Dutchman’s Gold, a storied cash of gold rumored to be hidden somewhere in the [ more... ]