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CultureEnron and The National Parks
Enron and The National Parks
Happy Centennial, National Parks! Now, can we talk about your corporate sponsorships?
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BikeEarly Summer 2016
Early Summer 2016
photo: Dave Cox | trail runner: Leigh Gilmore Terry | location: Boulder, CO features Mountain Bikes vs. Wilderness Aaron Teasdale on the closure of bike trails across the West. Mountain Kicks From light and fast trail runners to supportive hikers, and versatile road-to-trail kicks to full-on rock scramblers, these 2016 shoes best enhance your chosen method of travel. Plus, our picks for time tested running gear. Mountain Bike Buying Advice We tested 13 mountain and gravel road bikes so you don’t have to. Which one is right for you? Also: Women specific bikes, the accessories you need, and why we picked Carbondale, Colorado as our test site.…...
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EnvironmentUtah, Clean Up Your Air
Utah, Clean Up Your Air
On June 1, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled in favor of the Clean Parks Plan, forcing two Utah coal-fired plants to curb pollution.
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CultureBottling the Columbia River Gorge
Bottling the Columbia River Gorge
As water fights crop up across the country, Oregon’s Hood River County pulls a win against Nestlé—for now.
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CultureSword & Plough
Sword & Plough
Reviving military materials—and vets—with tough and stylish satchels.
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EnvironmentUnacceptable Risk
Unacceptable Risk
This documentary chronicles Colorado firefighters on the front lines of climate change.
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CultureTreading Lightly On Sacred Land
Treading Lightly On Sacred Land
Exploring and protecting Utah’s Grand Gulch. Words and photos by Sage Marshall As my father and I scramble to the Perfect Kiva ruin, the evening sun tints the canyon walls gold. We find faded rock art, an impeccably preserved interior room, and a wooden ladder that protrudes from the circular “perfect” kiva. Built between 900 and 1150 CE, most of the adobe and wood of the roofing is original, although some of it was partially restored in the 1970s. Inside, the kiva smells like a thousand-year-old closet. Shrunken corncobs and ceramic shards litter the dirt floor. Perfect Kiva sits five…...
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EnvironmentPhotographer’s Journal: Ryan Creary
Photographer’s Journal: Ryan Creary
Seven-year-Revelstoke local Creary calls his BC home “Canadian Boulder.” Hardly. A New Brunswick native, Creary, 42, has been a pro photographer for 15 years. “I have a great relationship with Sol Mountain Lodge,” says Creary. “This was my sixth or seventh trip. It’s a 20 minute heli flight from Revelstoke. The skier is Tim Haggerty. The snow quality made this a productive trip.” “I couldn’t tell you the name of these peaks,” says Creary as a nod to Revelstoke’s abundance, “but it’s emblematic of the Selkirks. I took the shot from Revelstoke’s cat skiing terrain.” From the Deep Winter 2016 issue....
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CultureUnited By Blue
United By Blue
Turning consumers into volunteers to keep water fresh. by Tim Neville | photograph Kelly Smith “Maybe they were murder weapons,” shrugs United By Blue Founder Brian Linton. “But there they were, eight handguns in a river.” The Glocks, along with pinpricked voodoo dolls and severed doll heads, figure among the ickier items that Linton and his troop of eco-conscious employees, volunteers, and customers have found while working to rid waterways of rubbish. The flotsam and jetsam show is all part of an effort by United By Blue, an outdoor lifestyle company, to make good on a promise to its clients:…...
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CultureMtn Advocate: Gear4Guides
Mtn Advocate: Gear4Guides
We give the Mountain pulpit to Olaf Sueters of Gear4Guides. In 2004, my friend Harmen van der Kooij and I backcountry skied in Bulgaria, touring out of the Rila Lake Hut with several members of the Bulgarian Extreme and Freeskiing Association. On a trek to the Rila Monastery, we skinned over an exposed ridge for a couple hours. As we contoured, I noticed our guide’s homemade touring bindings. If his bindings break, we have a problem, I thought. A year later, while skiing in Turkey, one of the guides kept slipping on the skin track thanks to his badly fraying skins. He simply…...
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CultureSalmon Sisters
Salmon Sisters
Salmon Sisters Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton grew up on the westernmost point in North America. (photograph Scott Dickerson) Changing sustainable seafood, one T-shirt at a time. When it comes to Alaskan fishing stories, sisters Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton have a whopper. Raised on a homestead on the westernmost point in North America, Alaska’s volcanic Aleutian Islands, the girls first hauled in halibut, cod, and salmon on their parents’ commercial fishing boat in the Bering Sea. They were in junior high. When the pair headed east for college (going west not being an option) it seemed likely…...
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CultureOpinion: On Wilderness and War
Opinion: On Wilderness and War
An Army vet needs your help protecting the wild places that have eased his PTSD. By Mark Olson | Photos Lindsay Beebe Wilderness and war. Do they have anything in common? Both will kill you if you’re not careful. Both will provoke deep and primitive feelings. And if you spend too much time in either environment, people think you’re crazy. When I left the US Army Infantry in 2011, I was cast back into a bustling world of city people I had lost any connection to. Everyone told me I had to “reintegrate” into a society of people whose biggest concerns were…...
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CultureLittle Cottonwood Canyon Gets A Free Shuttle
Little Cottonwood Canyon Gets A Free Shuttle
On March 12, the Wasatch Backcountry Alliance is holding a test run for dispersed recreationalists. If you’re a regular reader of Mountain magazine, you know that two blueprints under consideration could ultimately decide the future of skiing and public transportation in Utah’s Wasatch Range. One of them is One Wasatch, which hopes to connect the region’s six resorts and three canyons via lifts, and the other is the Mountain Accord, the goal of which is to preserve the Wasatch for generations to come. One Wasatch is on hold until plans for the Mountain Accord are finalized. But as is the nature of the…...
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EnvironmentMake for California
Make for California
The parking lot scene at Mammoth Mountain on March 6, 2016. (courtesy of Peter Morning/ Mammoth Mountain) El Niño has served the Golden State well this week. Here are some totals from the past 72 hours, plus our 2016 guide to each resort. View this post on Instagram After a bit of digging this morning, we found the 18 foot tall summit sign. #mammothstories #buried A post shared by Mammoth Mountain (@mammothmountain) on Mar 7, 2016 at 9:06am PST <Mammoth Mountain> Last 72 hours: 46” Acres: 3,500 | Vertical: 3,100 | Snowfall: 400 | mammothmountain.com Aptly named Mammoth is an elephantine resort in Southern California’s…...
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EnvironmentWarm Your Neck with National Parks-inspired Buffs
Warm Your Neck with National Parks-inspired Buffs
This August, the National Park Service turns 100 years old, which means you’ll be bombarded with themed articles and record visitation rates come summer. But it’ll all be well deserved: Our Parks are, arguably, our nation’s greatest gift. If you’re nodding your head ‘Yes,’ then grab one of Buff’s new pieces of headwear, from its UV National Parks collection. Selection currently includes six iconic parks (of 58): Glacier, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone, and Yosemite. The Buffs block 95% of ultraviolent rays, and can be worn as a headband, neck gaitor, or a facemask, making them ideal…...
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CultureReFleece
ReFleece
Sam Palmer co-founded ReFleece with his wife, Jennifer Feller, in 2012. (photograph Chris Milliman) Fabricating modish gadget sleeves, tech cases, and travel bags from ragged used fleece and rain shells. North of Boston, Sam Palmer tinkered in his basement, building plywood molds to press scraps of fleece from an old Patagonia jacket into a soft, sturdy felt case for his Kindle. He didn’t think much of it. And certainly nobody knocked down his door to take the startup public. But when he showed his wife Jennifer Feller the prototype, she saw a future in upcycling reclaimed fabric into gadget cases.…...
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CultureThe Ski Resort and the Coal Burner
The Ski Resort and the Coal Burner
Evidence of “Smog Lake City” in the distance. (photograph Dave Cox) The ski and outdoor industries come down on dirty power. by Patrick Doyle When Squaw Valley installed electric vehicle charging stations back in 2013, the resort ran into an immediate problem: The electricity it received from its provider, Liberty Utilities, was dirty, generated in part by the burning of Rocky Mountain coal at the North Valmy Generation Station, a hulking power plant in northern Nevada. North Valmy, according to the Sierra Club, spews the equivalent of 2.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, a figure…...
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CultureDeep Winter 2016
Deep Winter 2016
skier: KC Deane | photo: Grant Gunderson | location: Mt.Bachelor, OR features Photographer’s Journals Scott DW Smith takes us on an early season tour of his stomping grounds, the San Juans of Southern Colorado. Plus: A deep dive into Ryan Creary’s Revelstoke playground. Four High Country Entrepreneurs Changing sustainable seafood, one T-shirt at a time. Turning consumers into volunteers to keep water fresh. Reviving military materials—and vets—with tough and stylish satchels. Licensed to fight evil, empowered by Millennials. Mountain’s All-Access Guide to Backcountry Adventure Seven summits and 30,000 acres from one hut, heli-touring at CMH Adamants Lodge and in the Ruby…...
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