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Jeremy Jones hikes for some fresh power with one of his company’s new snowboards.. Long-time pro snowboarder, Jeremy Jones, has started a new snowboard company named, appropriately, Jones Snowboards.. Last year, he left his sponsor of 17 years, French ski and snowboard maker Rossignol, and soon after announced he was launching his own venture. The...

A team of German tinkerers developed an electronic bike lock that lifts bicycles up light poles to keep them away from bike thieves. A remote control tells motors to wheel the bike up and down a pole. Practical? Doubtful. Expensive to build? Likely. Cool? As hell.. The pole-ascending bike lock was one of the fruits...

WingsuitA bird? A plane? Nah. Just a crazy man in a wingsuit flirting with death.. PLEASE watch the first shot of this short BASE jumping film by Jokke Sommer, showing fellow Norwegian Trond Teigen blazing past a group of onlookers with a wingsuit. It’s just…ridiculous!. The BASE jumping footage was shot in Switzerland and Norway.....

misC Sport & Leisure has released the price of the Swiss Room Box, a device that adds a sink, bed, shower, table and toilet to nearly any car.. Brace yourself.One of these red boxes of wonderment will cost you $8,230. No, we didn’t accidentally add that last zero.. The box’s website now offers details on compatibility...

The North American Avalanche Danger Scale, a system for warning . backcountry skiers, snowboarders and snowshoers of avalanche threat . levels, has been revised and released for winter 2010.. Years in the making, the new system standardizes the use of icons across. countries – including icons that can be understood by vising Europeans –. and...

There’s nothing like feeling exposed to get you thinking about the basic necessities of survival.. I recently found myself next to a remote Canadian river, my cotton clothing soaked through from a surprise rainstorm, facing the prospect of spending the night with no food, shelter or fire. I knew better – “Be Prepared!” – but...

Anson Fogel, Jason Dewey and Tony Prikyl plan to release a film called Wildwater: A Love Story this fall. Based on this segment filmed in June on the North Fork of the Payette in Idaho at record flood stage, the movie promises to live up to its title.. The trio of filmmakers, which comprise Forge Motion Pictures, capture the tremendous...

With each day of the year now claimed by multiple interests – Thursday was National Donut Day, by the way – it’s hard to get revved up about anything called a “day” anymore.. When I used to work for a newspaper, my editor laughed at anyone who pitched him a story based on an official day...

Europeans and North Americans have a lot in common, with much New World culture and government rooted in the Old World.. But their are distinctions. Consider the Tour De France, that high-profile cycling extravaganza, and the Tour Divide, a little-known 2,745 mile mountain bike race from Banff, Canada, to Antelope Wells, New Mexico, on the...

This is not your typical adventure race. The Aventurists, a group of Brits “fighting to make the world less boring” is accepting applications for 2010 Mongol Derby, a 620 mile race across the Mongolian Plateau — on ponies. To enter, you need to weigh less than 187 pounds and understand that the ponies are “small...

Going on an adventure is best. Next best: Rubbing it in your friends’ faces. If you’ve got a photo to prove it, even better.. To honor this esteemed tradition, STRAY now has it’s own . Flickr group for sharing photographs. The idea is for the group to serve. as a showcase for the inspiring photos...

Ken Kamler was the only doctor on Mount Everest during 1996 storm that killed eight climbers and was chronicled in Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air. In the video below, Kamler talks about the miraculous survival of Beck Weathers, who survived the storm after being assumed dead and spending nearly 36 hours buried under the snow...

National Geographic debuted a new channel this week called Nat Geo . Wild, featuring shows focused on nature and people who get up close and . personal with wildlife. . “For more than 30 years, National Geographic has been the leader in wildlife programming,” National Geographic wrote on the show’s blog. “Now, against a global...

ESPN commentator Tony Kornheiser complained last week about cyclists using roads, and suggested that “tapping” bikers from behind was a reasonable response from motorists. Lance Armstrong was not amused.. “Listening to Tony Kornheiser’s comments/rant on ESPN radio re: cyclists,” Armstrong wrote on his Twitter feed. “Disgusting, ignorant, foolish. What a complete f-ing idiot.”. Lance Armstrong’s comments...

Why do streams meander?. This very Zen question so perplexed scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, that they built a scale model of a living river bed in their laboratory.. They planted alfalfa seeds so the sprouts could serve as miniature . stand-ins for real vegetation such as trees and bushes. After they ran...

In his proposed budget released earlier this year,  President Obama proposed increased funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a program that protects natural, historic, recreational and other landscapes, according to Outdoor Alliance.. The administration is also considering creating 14 national monuments in nine states totaling about 13 millions acres.. The areas under consideration...

Sometimes it is obvious how a sport will progress overtime and other times it may be hard to tell the ultimate outcome. A clear progression in a sport like running is “faster times,” for example. But in other sports, the path the future is far more crooked. In kayaking, progression has been interesting to...