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The Top 10 Adventure Athletes on Instagram | Outdoor Adventure Blog | OutsideOnline.com
Some very moving outdoor images via Instagram. Get inspired. Outside Magazine is still bringing me help in getting off the couch. The Top 10 Adventure Athletes on Instagram | Outdoor Adventure Blog | OutsideOnline.com.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail- my book review
I was made aware about “Wild” in a very brief paragraph in Outside magazine, which stated that Knopf believed that they could sell 100,000 hard bound copies of this book. What was not revealed in the article was the extent of the media blitz that would accompany the book’s release. Within the next several days, [...]
Coffee- 400,000 person long-term study mutes the critics!
Where’s that Dunkin’ app? I carry real Rock City ground coffee, with a stove to prepare it in my backpack. My reasons are primarily for the performance enhancing effects. The study, reporting on a 13 year analysis, will be published Thursday (May 17) in the New England Journal of Medicine. Drinking coffee long-term may decrease [...]
Touring on a Pugsley
…..The fat bike is effortless ease where other machines merely get by. My companions for a span Tom and Sarah were almost always able to ride the track that I rode on their standardly Schwalbe shod rigs, they are very capable cyclists, but we could see that the Fat Bike was having a don’t bother [...]
Urine is of Little Help to Hikers
“It’s not in any survival manual, but a group of lost hikers in the Adirondacks during a rainy overnight last week tried to fend off the cold by using the only warm water they had — their urine.” That’s actually in the article. The best line: “The technique is not a standard survival technique and apparently [...]
Ride the Divide DVD- now via Netflix
On June 8th, this astounding yearly race begins again. I just found out that the DVD is now available from Netflix, either as a physical in-the mail- DVD, or as an Instant download format. Appleton Ridge’s Stephen Gleasner completed the race in 2008. This year, my next door neighbor, Andy Hazen, is planning to be [...]
From video games to apps: Ryan Linn (AKA Guthook) turns love of hiking into a business — Business — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine
Guthook is profiled in today’s Bangor Daily News. He released his Camden Hills Hiking App, for iPhone, with plans for Android release. I was involved with field-testing the App when Guthook and I were hiking the trails in Camden Hills State Park last year. We both agree that hiking there is excellent preparation for [...]
Riding Maine’s Sunrise Trail
I joined my friend and next door neighbor Andy Hazen this weekend, on one of his two-day-long training rides in his preparation for the 2,745 mile Tour Divide race starting June 8th, arguably the most challenging mountain bike time trial on the planet. We were riding on the Downeast Sunrise Trail, an 87 mile section [...]
Camping au savage
It’s 6:30 pm and I’m in my sleeping bag trying to warm up. I just finished the longest bicycle ride that I’ve done in at least 10, or maybe 15 years. I started at 9 AM in Cherryfield after dropping my riding buddy Andy Hazen in Ellsworth. He just finished 80 miles, I did 30 [...]
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