Every sport has a hero—that one person who continually challenges, beats and changes the very face of the game. For adventure racing, that person is Mike Kloser. In the early 1980s Kloser dabbled in the pro mogul skiing circuit, won a few national titles and switched gears to mountain biking. Throughout his 12 year career […]
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WELP, 105.7 The Peak bit the dust. Again. The station I held in my heart of hearts as a youth, and was recently teased by with its return to the market, has passed along once more (with no Peakfests this time around either—hrmph!). As of May 18 at 12:00 p.m., the Peak is now, well—hang
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It all started with an unflattering picture in Hawaii. The image of a whale that had beached itself on shore was actually the photo of a man, about to reach his turning point. “I realized I was fat, middle-aged and white,” says Dave Adlard, director of Adventure Sports Week. “I couldn’t change it all, but
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Roadtrip: American Hotel Hostel In Seattle By Taylor Weech Traveling on a budget isn’t always easy, but Hostelling International USA at the American Hotel in Seattle’s International District provides a fun, affordable weekend getaway or a kickoff to a cross country hostel tour. Hostels differ from hotels in a few basic ways; they offer dormitory
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A gentleman called the Out There Monthly office the other day to voice concerns about a popular trail that runs from 35th and Havana behind Chase Middle School on the South Hill. He told me that the dirt trail, which he said had been used by dog-walkers, trail-runners, cyclists, and middle school students for years,
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The Last Man On The Mountain: The Death Of An American Adventurer On K2 Jennifer Jordan W.W. Norton & Company, August 2010, 320 pages In the early 1990s, when I first became interested in collecting adventure literature, one of the first truly collectable books I obtained was a copy of Charles Houston and Robert Bates’
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