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Fastpacking is a brilliant sport. Simply said, it’s a sport where you strap a small amount of gear, food, and water on your back and go running and powerhiking for days at a time. Where you sleep under the stars wherever your feet have landed you. Where...

By Michael Lanza For our spring ascent of the Mountaineers Route on California’s 14,505-foot Mount Whitney—highest peak in the Lower 48—my 15-year-old son (in lead photo, above, approaching our high camp below Whitney’s East Face) and I used technical...

And this is what it’s about. Except for the ocean gale blowing in through the front door. Photo: Peter Barr/ Wikimedia Commons You’ve doubtless been there.  A perfect little hollow, sheltered from the wind, tucked behind a lonely ridge, but nevertheless...

The Bugsplat Chronicles – the Saga Continues Arctic Circle in Alaska June 8 – July 1, 2013 pictures at http://s669.photobucket.com/user/pick126/library/Alaska Bugsplat and I had ridden in the 48 contiguous states plus 5 Canadian Provinces...

Don’t let kids hibernate when temperatures start to drop! Here are 10 ways to keep kids active during winter. (Obstacle course, anyone?) . . Remember our super awesome CLIF Kid Zbar review? You know, the one with the skate park and those professionally...