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Siberia Is Vast, Melancholic, and Hilarious In This Masterpiece Book
Ian Frazier is a national treasure. He's maybe best known as a longtime New Yorker columnist and features writer, covering pretty much anything th...
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culture
A Few Thoughts on Sleeping Alone in Your Car
I bought my car, a teenage Subaru with three hubcaps and two working windows, because I knew I could stretch out in the back. I tried it before I ...
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historical badass
Climbing Legend Charlie Porter Climbed Everything and Said Nothing
In a career full of superhuman stories, Charlie Porter's 1975 climb on Baffin Island's Mt. Asgard stands out: He took a month just to ski in all hi...
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gear
Your Hydration Bladder Is Probably Gross—Here’s How to Fix That
Wash your hydration bladder. If not right now, tonight. If not tonight, tomorrow. If not tomorrow, well, how's your immune system? A few summers a...
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culture
We Need a Guidebook for Camping Etiquette
On a camping trip in southern Utah, my brother, a friend, and I pulled up late one night to a flat, open sandy area just off a road through BLM l...
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culture
Opinion: It's Time to Stop Building Cairns
Stones: We've built pyramids and castles with them and painstakingly cleared them out of farm fields, using them to build low walls for fencing. ...
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gear
How I Finally Got Rid of Plantar Fasciitis Once and For All
I went for a trail run yesterday and logged almost two hours through the tall grass, wildflowers, and absurdly steep hills in my back yard. That I...
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culture
Can You Be Happy Dating Someone Who Isn't Adventurous?
I’ve always pictured myself with a partner who wants to explore the world with me, that stereotypical romantic vision of a soulmate with whom to s...
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historical badass
Dick Proenneke Lived Alone in Alaska For 30 Years—And Thrived
For thirty years, Dick Proenneke lived alone in the Alaskan wilderness. He lived in a cabin he built with his own hands. He had no running water a...
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historical badass
You Don’t Have To Justify Adventure
History’s greatest ocean rowing career started with a classified ad. It was 1972 and Peter Bird was selling velvet paintings door-to-door, the lat...
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