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... ]

Joe Azougar sat on his cabin porch on a remote plot of land not too far from Cochrane, Canada enjoying his breakfast when a bear crashed through the woods charging towards him. His German Sheppard sprang up and ran at the bear, attacking it while Joe ran inside his cabin, slamming the door. Moments later, [ more... ]

Dietmar Eckell spent years tracking down planes left to be consumed by the wild after they crashed in the middle of nowhere. These 15s planes are unique, in each case everyone aboard survived and all were eventually rescued. He found and photographed the 15 planes, abandoned 10 to 70 years ago. The photos are pretty [ more... ]

If you want to go to Wrangel Island, be prepared to take an icebreaker or a helicopter. Not to mention a jet, or several, to Russia, since you’re going to wind up 90 miles north of Siberia. For the last leg you could tag along, as writer Hampton Sides did for his current story in National [ more... ]

Two teenagers embarked on a 6-hour hike at the end of last month in Trabuco Canyon, California. “We wanted to touch the clouds,” one said. “That’s why we went up there. We wanted to be in the clouds at the top.” They became disoriented and called 911 for rescue, but the dispatcher had a hard [ more... ]

Orville Slutzky and his brother Izzie would never be able to build New York’s Hunter Mountain in today’s more environmentally conscious environment, but back in the 1950s when the two shifted from their construction business to opening a ski area, they did what they knew best: blew up Hunter until its rock slopes submitted to [ more... ]

Serial cheater Lance Armstrong has already put his house up for sale at a fraction of its supposed worth, and before long he might have to be hocking his bikes — the Justice Department issued its formal complaint against him yesterday, saying that he was “unjustly enriched” by using performance-enhancing drugs from 1998 to 2004 [ more... ]

Earl Holding’s fortune began when he was the manager of a Little America truck stop near Green River, Wyoming, where he and his wife Carole pumped gas, washed windows, and did whatever it took to make things run. He was able to purchase the truck stop, then went on to open three more Little Americas, [ more... ]

Frenchman Eric Barone rocketed down the slopes of a resort near Les Arcs setting the world speed record for a serial production mountain bike. I image that the parameters for “serial production” are rather forgiving seeing as how I’ve never seen a bike quite like the one pictured for sale anywhere in the world. The [ more... ]

Smithsonian Magazine takes a look at the biggest historical cheats in adventure racing, climbing, and travel. My favorite is Donald Crowhurst, who began sending fake updates from his around-the-world sailboat race when he realized he wasn’t going to finish. He inadvertently put himself in the lead and on record-setting pace, but he was in way [ more... ]