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... ]

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... ]

Ouch. Road-building crews in northern Belize recently knocked down a 2,300-year-old temple to pave the way for their route — and to add insult to injury, they used the remains of the temple for the roadbed. Sadly this isn’t the first time a road-building operation has bulldozed a Mayan pyramid in Belize. Archaeologist Patricia McAnany [ more... ]

The man in the red backpack thought he had a great spot lined up to watch the riders pass during stage 10 until they got a little too close and he had to take one step back. Hopefully people standing near him weren’t too concentrated on the race action to notice that he disappeared. via [ more... ]

More than 70 million people living in the western United States rely on the Rocky Mountain snowpack for their water, and a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey does not bode well for long showers: Since the 1980s, the snowpack has dropped 20 percent. “Until the 1980s, the northern Rocky Mountains experienced large snowpacks [ more... ]

If you’re speeding on a county road in Utah, does a Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management ranger have the legal right to stop and give you a ticket? The state of Utah says no, and it just passed a law formalizing its position. But don’t get excited, it’s not your back that Utah’s [ more... ]

Veteran outdoor reporter Kevin Fedarko’s new book on running the Colorado River in the summer of 1983 is out and it’s clearly a must read. “The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History through the Heart of the Grand Canyon,” is set against the backdrop of a record spring runoff. Fedarko [ more... ]

Who knows if elephants have a sense of justice, but homo sapiens do and it’s hard to feel too sorry for Solomon Manjoro, who was attempting to shoot one of the big-eared beasts in Charara, Zimbabwe, when the elephant charged and trampelled him to death before he could fire. Two of Manjoro’s accomplices were arrested [ more... ]

First, let’s start with the skull and crossbones on the side of the plane: Frenchmen Francois Coli and Charles Nungesser were WAY ahead of their time. Sweet. Beyond modern attitude and branding, though, they might have been really ahead of their time, as the World War I aviators flew across the Atlantic 13 days before [ more... ]