Skier Matthias Giraud skies off Mississippi Head on Mt. Hood

Zach, Ian and myself all have birthdays within a few weeks of each other. To celebrate, some of us went up to his family’s cabin in Zig Zag which is at the base of Mount Hood. From there it’s just a hop skip and a jump to all the alpine descent delights of [...]

From BikePortland this morning-
On the heels of record profits by the big five oil companies, U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Portland) will once again try to enact a tax benefit for bike commuters and close the �Hummer tax loophole.�
Earl is introducing a new version of the bike commuter tax benefit today. The original one was stripped [...]

The day Portland paddle maker Lee Bonfiglio closed up shop, folks lucky enough to own a Fluid paddle sighed, knowing that one of the best whitewater paddles ever made had become irreplaceable. After three years of abuse, I still haven’t managed to break mine, though it is missing a large chunk out of the blade. [...]

On Sunday the BBC published a rather scary article regarding new research in West Antarctica where three important glaciers are putting more and more ice into the sea, causing great concern amongst environmental scientists. One of the glaciers in question, the Pine Island Glacier, is 30 kilometers wide and and moving at 3.5 kilometers per [...]

I watched Schralptown and return to Schralptown this week and really got the bug to hike for some turns soon. This is the trailer.

A few weeks ago, Ian posted the ImprovEverywhere’s New York stunt which was in internet hit. Here is the latest London Freeze, which took place at Trafalgar Square.

At Stiv’s request here is an olden but golden photo of Chet Childress putting some final use to a soon to be destroyed, transitional swimming hole, in the form of a backside smithgrind.
Taken from Nichols and Charnoski’s “Northwest” documentary, that has some footage of the last days of this Asbury Park pool.

A study and accompanying map published in today’s Science illustrate, literally, the impact of human behavior on the world’s oceans.
Lead scientist Ben Halpern and his colleagues composed 17 models of the earth, each representing the damage caused by a specific human behavior like fishing or pollution, then merged them to show the cumulative global effect. [...]