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Inside Magazine: A Look Inside The First Issue

Into Central Air: A Journey to the Limits of Climate Control Do You Really Need a High-Performance Couch? Fourteen High-Altitude Ultramarathons You'll Consider Watching On EPSN7 In 2007, Chad Kenniwit...

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The Best Sentences In Off The Wall: Death In Yosemite

"Knowing how the falls had received their picturesque name, however, did nothing to help the two soggy lovebirds from becoming one with this natural phenomenon." "He was a 'popular' student at the...

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This Swedish Survivalist Is Slicing Oranges With An Axe And Living His Best Life

There are a great many survivalist channels on YouTube, full of square-jawed and serious men and women, who know that life is stern and life is earnest and that the time for ripping apart our...

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I Don’t Feel Weak When I’m Angry

I went on a date tonight with this cute anthropologist. He has blue eyes, a beard, and his online dating profile says he’s good with knots, but not in a creepy, kidnap-y way, more in a handy, Boy...

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Notes Home From Camp, By Susan Sontag

Dear Mother, and to a lesser extent Father, Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility --...

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You Think You Have Time: Hiking the Lowest to Highest Trail

We're walking through a wash in the desert in the dark, and we're thirsty. We've been hiking since five a.m., and left our last water source a few hours after that. In the interim we climbed ten...

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Jewel Key: Friendship and Escape in the Everglades

You listen to the quiet hum of your best friends’ breathing, the ocean baptizing the shore again and again. This moment is the closest thing to home you’ve felt in a long time. Read more Jewel Key:...

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Outfitting for Adventure: The Problem with Women’s Outdoor Gear

Whenever I go to trade shows or industry events, I’m shocked at how solidly, stubbornly pink the women’s outdoor gear options are, even gear for truly extreme sports. Women’s gear often lacks features...

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Storm Birds: A Chef’s Adventures in the South Pacific

When we were sailing I felt borne up by wings capable of taking me much farther than I’d ever thought possible, to places where I could watch the storm petrels glide before the rising and falling walls...

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The Worst Weather In America

I can never get enough stories about Mount Washington, the little mountain in New Hampshire that kills just everybody, and which I'll never visit unless it's to get dragged into the weather station and...

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