Mountain Love
Thursday, March 6th, 2008SkiPress editor and talented writer Peter Kray took over the editor position at Mountain Gazette this year and he has been hard at work updating the magazine to reflect the changes in mountain-town culture. I don’t envy him the job. The Gazette has long been a bastion of free-thinking, non-consumer mountain town authenticity and former […]
A Day in the Office
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Gear testing is tough work…
Videophilia
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008It’s official. We are a nation more interested in video games than getting outdoors. At least according to the latest study from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Pergams and Patricia Zaradic, a fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program, Delaware Valley in Bryn Mawr, Pa., had previously reported a steady decline in per capita visits […]
Brooklyn to Beaver Creek
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008I wrote this gear/fashion piece for the January issue of Outside on the emerging trend of urban-style jackets that use technical outdoor fabrics (Gore-Tex, Primaloft, merino wool, etc.). I like to refer to it as the Brooklyn-to-Beaver-Creek look. To be honest, I’m surprised that so few companies have moved into the niche. There’s nasty weather […]
War is Over
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007I stayed home from school the day John Lennon was shot in December 1980. I was 11 years old and probably more idealistic— and at times, I think, smarter—than I am now. This Christmas I heard “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)” while I was playing with my three-year old daughter and those words hit me […]
Hampsten on Elba
Monday, October 8th, 2007Pick up a copy of the latest issue of Outside’s Go. I wrote the cover story about a cycling trip I took with Andy Hampsten in Italy this summer. Hampsten, who is the only American to ever win the Giro d’Italia, runs tours in Italy that merge intense riding with an intelligent immersion in Italian […]
Baseball Has Been Very, Very Bad to My Work Schedule
Monday, October 8th, 2007How can I be expected to work with this happening? This has been a fantastic baseball postseason so far—swarms of locusts descending on the Yankees, Manny Ramirez putting the emphatic in walkoff, the Yankees clawing back in it, Josh Beckett and Curt Schilling pitching like Koufax and Drysdale, small markets knocking off Chicago and Philadelphia, […]
Epicurian Epic
Friday, October 5th, 2007Last fall, Marshall McKinney and I embarked on a gut-wrenching three-day, 90-mile, 14,000-vertical ride on the Colorado Trail in Summit County. The rub was that we rode unsupported but stayed at the Breckenridge Hyatt and a condo at Copper Mountain—so that we could lounge in the hot tubs and catch the first week of the […]
The Whole Enchilada
Friday, October 5th, 2007I spent last weekend on assignment for Bike in the Abajo Mountains south of Moab with photographer Lin Alder and bike reps Todd Kerbs and Willy Warren (and last-minute sub T.J. from Poison Spider, who was not afraid to ride in rain and mud). We also got a chance to ride the Whole Enchilada—a 30-some-mile, […]
Blake on Fire
Friday, September 28th, 2007Take a look at the stunning portraits Blake Gordon took at Burning Man posted on Those Responsible. I’m a fan of Blake’s work, which merges the surreal beauty of place and personality. Take a look, too, at the Reality Television project—dreamlike shots of people watching TV in disjointed places—on his web site.