Author Archive
Industry Covers
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007I landed cover stories on both the Gear Trends magazines this season. For the outdoor mag, I wrote on the rise of recreational and fishing kayaks becoming the driving force in the paddlesports market. For the fitness book, I wrote on how the specialty retailer of the future must evolve to become an entertainer as […]
Moyers on the Media
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Bill Moyes gives me hope. His intellectual range and uncompromising dedication to journalistic integrity are a constant inpiration to me—and I hope they can be an influence on my own work. But most of all, I love the way he engages the people he interviews. His questions come from true intellectural curiosity. Take a look […]
I’m Sorry My Son
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007While we were all patting ourselves on the back for our green ethos at OR, mountaintop removal become the law of the land. LINK John Prine already said it all: Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land Well, they dug for their […]
Copp an Attitude
Thursday, July 19th, 2007I ran into longtime friend Jon Copp yesterday, doing the Boulder/bohemian thing, working in Amante cafe. If you don’t know him, he is one of the best alpine climbers on the planet as well as the director of the Boulder Adventure Film Festival. He’s also a talented photographer. Take a look at some of his […]
The Workload
Saturday, July 14th, 2007I am deep, deep in the midst of putting together the preshow copy for the OR Show Dailies. From August 6-12 at the show in Salt Lake City, I’ll be heading up a team that includes Peter Kray, Erinn Morgan, Kate Siber, and Wendy Booher, pumping out four days of dailies. It’s a satisfying project […]
Farewell, Mr. Butch
Friday, July 13th, 2007All of us who went to BU in the 80s, slam-danced at the Rat, head-banged at Narcissus, and fell in love with Fenway will not forget you. LINK I want to be lifted up By some great white bird unknown to the police, And soar for a thousand miles and be carefully hidden Modest and […]
Commodity and Service
Thursday, July 12th, 2007While I was playing with my daughter at the park yesterday, a group of Mennonite teenagers on a “discovery project” from Virginia came up to me and asked me what I thought a land ethic was. (Only in Boulder.) I immediately thought of Aldo Leopold, which made them happy since Leopold was the impetus for […]
First Fish
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Isa caught her first fish over 4th of July while we were camping up in the Indian Peaks. I cast for her and she hooked it and reeled it in (with a little help). She can’t stop talking about the “trout fish” she caught. I got skunked. As one of the kids who watched said, […]
Ro Sham Bo
Sunday, July 8th, 2007I just saw the World Series of Rock, Paper, Scissors on ESPN2. I thought it was a joke, or a Christopher Guest movie. Nope. Real. I can’t help but wonder why outdoor sports can’t get a foothold on ESPN if the network is showing spelling bees, bass fishing, European soccer, and arena football. The sports […]
Man vs. Roosterfish
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007I’m up at the Teva Mountain Games this weekend and had the chance to see Felt Soul Media’s 14-minute film “Running Down the Man,” which chronicles fly-fishing maniacs in Baja sprinting down the beach trying to catch roosterfish off the surf. It was the most enjoyable outdoor sport movie I have seen in recent memory. […]