Adventure

I rode in my first Critical Mass last month, a 200-rider strong showing in downtown Minneapolis on July 25. We rode with 28 police on…

This feature story profiles Andy Knapp of Minneapolis, a 59-year-old adventurer who’s climbed Denali, biked solo to Alaska, kayaked alone across Lake Superior, and is…

The Hash House Harriers are a “drinking club with a running problem.” This tradition, started nearly 70 years ago in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has its…

Run with your dog. Let him pull. That’s the premise behind canicross, a dog-sledding derivative that milks maximum propulsion via a canine-connected cord to rocket…

Jordan Romero. Age 11. On his way to becoming the youngest person ever to climb the Seven Summits. Last week: Denali. Five summits down, two…

I went in for a physical assessment. I got crystals and magic instead. This is my story on Chris Frykman, a chiropractor who cracks backs,…

Just got back from an odd one. This weekend I traveled to northern Minnesota and the Red Lake Peatlands, a spongy, hard-to-access wilderness that is…

Just got back from Wyoming and Devils Tower, a 1,000-foot-high thumb of rock in the northeastern part of the state and my favorite rock climbing…

Unbeknownst to many American mountaineers, the highest point of elevation east of the Rocky Mountains is not in New Hampshire. That title belongs to Harney…

In 2004, Scott Cutshall was a freelance jazz drummer, a husband and a father. He was 38 years old, though not sure if he’d live…

A death on a high peak — plus personal failures in performance at altitude — prompted Mike Farris, a 52-year-old college professor, to write a…

A 5K for nudists, an Antarctic marathon, and a race that cumulates at a giant pit of mud round out my Top 10 picks for…

This final trip report about my Norwegian escape last week is photo-heavy, with Kvitfjellet and Smorbottentin, two magnificent mountains of the Romsdal Alps, grabbing most…

Last week while on a ski-touring trip to Norway’s Romsdal Alps I sailed the long and narrow seas of a fjord. This is the second…

The Alpha LT by Arc’teryx is a pricey and top-end shell jacket made for mission-critical mountain situations where a thin sheen of nylon could literally…

Goldsprint racing is a rising offseason cycling activity that melds a stationary bike trainer with a video game. Riders pedal to move wheels on a…

Can perseverance and fortitude forged from a lifetime in the outdoors boost your strength in other parts of life? For Andy Knapp, a 60-year-old retail…

In this tell-all Q&A interview, Stephen Regenold (a.k.a. The Gear Junkie) talks with author Bill Katovsky about cycling 135 miles on snow, “existential realignment” via…

The Hash House Harriers are a drinking club with a running problem. That’s according to a man known as Bob-Shiggy-Bob, who I met last month…

The bitter pill that is the sport of ultramarathon — footraces of 50 miles or more — is unusually hard to swallow in Death Valley…