Meet Brendan Leonard: Colorado’s mountain jester
Brendan Leonard is not the sort of adventure athlete you read about in most magazines. He doesn’t fly wingsuits or put up new routes in the Karakorum. To this day, he’s yet to win even a single bike or...
View ArticleRoad Trip: Southwest Texas
The open roads of Southwest Texas are home to the last vestiges of America’s wild west. It’s a poetic place where people are friendly and self sufficient. The history is rich with triumph and struggles...
View ArticleComing soon: The Jackson-Yellowstone bike route
If Tim Young gets his way, even casual cyclists will soon have a way to tour some of the wildest country in the lower 48. Young is the brains behind the proposed Greater Yellowstone Trail: a 180-mile,...
View ArticlePhoto essay: Moab by trailer
When my wife and I travel to the desert, it’s usually not a luxury experience. We typically wake up surrounded by thin mesh walls and waterproof nylon material, tucked into a tandem down sleeping bag...
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Why you should paddle the Potomac. In winter.
Slogging across my frost-slickened lawn, kayak on my shoulder, I wave to my grocery-hauling neighbor. The look on her face is a grandmotherly mix of curiosity and concern. “Are you really going...
View ArticleBikepacking Cuba’s “Ruta Mala”
Late last year, a friend asked me to join an adventure on the La Ruta Mala: a new bikepacking route in Cuba. The route was conceived and scouted by Logan Watts and Joe Cruz, and was published while I...
View ArticleYes, you can still visit Cuba. Here’s how.
In June of 2017, President Trump announced that his administration would take a tough stance against Cuba’s socialist government. That meant a reversal of the course charted by Obama, who had loosened...
View ArticleWhat a ManCan do in Cabo
This is not the story you think it is. Maybe back in my twenties, it might have been that type of story. One of tequila shots being poured into the back of your throat by a Mexican blowing a whistle in...
View ArticleIn South Texas, a river runs through it
Less than 70 miles southwest of Austin, the Blanco (pronounced Blank-oh) River begins its journey as a series of springs, small pools, and waterfalls. From these headwaters, the water wends and winds...
View ArticleIn Haiti, an author finds that doing good isn’t easy
In 2013, Allison Coffelt spent three weeks volunteering and touring around Haiti, a nation that had blossomed and festered in her imagination for over a decade. In her recently released book, Maps Are...
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