Matt Segal and Backcountry.com Athlete Cedar Wright headed to China for the very first Trad Climbing Festival. The North Face sponsored the event, which makes a lot of sense seeing as how they have a huge manufacturing footprint in the country and it represents an enormous market. People from different cultures finding common ground over their passions, always a good time.

A Patagonia-sponsored athlete set out for a rather long skateboarding trip across a stretch of China that would take him over and down too many 14k mountain passes to count. He filed the story of his trip with plenty of photos and video over at The Cleanest Line. Whenever I read about these cross-country longboard [ more... ]

This weekend, The People’s Republic of China will host their first major snowboarding event. Let’s hope they enjoy it, because we’re counting on them to buy all the crap the U.S. sells so that we can get back some of the money they’ve loaned us so that we could perpetuate our lifestyle of buying crap [ more... ]

Tommy Caldwell’s account of climbing Keketuohai National Geological Park in northern China is posted on The Cleanest Line. It’s an interesting story. Half the battle of freeing lines in China has been convincing local authorities that they’re allowed the climb, but it looks like on the last day, the convinced a few of the security [ more... ]