Matthew McDermott
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Forrest Shearer Speaks Up For Snowboarding & Wilderness (Video)
Posted Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:18 AM ET | 0
Jones Snowboards rider Forrest Shearer has a new short video out (all the footage is from Teton Gravity Research) touting his support for and partnership with The Wilderness Society. It’s all part of their My Wilderness campaign and as ... Read more
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6 Off-the-beaten-path Destinations for Endless Winter Adventure
Posted Wed Dec 7, 2011 03:54 PM ET | 0
Had enough of being trapped indoors this winter? Get outside with our DIY Winter Adventure series. It’s raining outside my apartment in New York City right now. And it’s the first week of December. And back in October we ... Read more
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John Davis’ 7600-Mile TrekEast Comes To An End In Gaspé Peninsula
Posted Fri Nov 18, 2011 01:15 PM ET | 0
Back in August I had a chance to talk to John Davis of the Wildlands Network, about two-thirds of the way through TrekEast — the name he’s given to his really pretty epic trip up the east coast of ... Read more
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Record-Breaking Extreme Skier Jamie Pierre Killed in Early Season Utah Avalanche
Posted Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:22 PM ET | 0
Yesterday afternoon pro extreme skier Jamie Pierre, who holds the world record for largest cliff drop (255′!!, see video above), died in an avalanche while snowboarding at Snowbird resort in Utah. Avalanche conditions were reported as... Read more
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Made By Hand: Cut Brooklyn Hand-made Kitchen Knives (Video)
Posted Tue Nov 8, 2011 12:42 PM ET | 0
You should really spend the next 10 minutes of your life watching the second installment in the Made By Hand video series. It briefly tells the story of writer-turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz and his Cut Brooklyn studio in ... Read more
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Really Early Season Powder at Silverton Mountain, Colorado (Video)
Posted Tue Nov 1, 2011 11:07 AM ET | 0
If you live in the Northeast like I do and all this record breaking early season snow — my parents in Connecticut got 18″ and places in New Hampshire got over 30″ — has really got you pining to ... Read more
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100 Year Old Becomes World’s Oldest Marathoner (And He Only Started Running At Age 89!)
Posted Mon Oct 17, 2011 02:35 PM ET | 0
I have to say that this is one of the most inspirational things I’ve read in a while: A 100-year-old man from London has become the oldest person to complete a marathon, according to BBC News. Fauja Singh, a ... Read more
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“Irrefutable Evidence” of Yeti Discovered in Siberia
Posted Tue Oct 11, 2011 01:12 PM ET | 0
Some may be rolling their eyes right now at that headline, and I’ll admit that using a word like ‘irrefutable’ immediately opens you up to all kinds of problems in this sort of thing, but it’s all pretty fascinating. ... Read more
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Can We Use Vegetable Oil as Fuel in Cars and Electrical Generators?
Posted Tue Sep 27, 2011 02:28 PM ET | 0
Can we use vegetable oil as fuel in our cars and in electrical generators? The short answer is yes. The longer answer is, well, yes, with a good number of qualifications. First of all, all biofuels are essentially vegetable ... Read more
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Protect Our Winters Tells Congress Protect Our Climate and Support EPA
Posted Thu Sep 15, 2011 02:28 PM ET | 0
In an era of post-truth politics in the US (to use a favorite phrase of Grist’s Dave Roberts) I’m not sure what well-meaning letters to Congress about taking climate action accomplish. But the latest from the good, well-meaning, folks... Read more
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Made By Hand: New York’s First Gin Distillery Since Prohibition (Video)
Posted Thu Sep 15, 2011 01:28 PM ET | 0
Whether you’re a big fan of gin or not you should check out the first episode of Made By Hand, a new series of short films documenting people and products, well, made by hand. As in with care, craftsmanship, ... Read more
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Skateboarding in Burma? Really? Yup. (Video)
Posted Thu Sep 15, 2011 01:13 PM ET | 0
This one’s been out for a couple months now, with the footage itself from 2009, but it’s new to me (thanks to BBC News) so I’ll pass it along. You really need to see this. So cool. Three skateboarders ... Read more
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North America’s 8 Major English Dialects Interactively Mapped In All Its Complex Glory
Posted Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:33 AM ET | 0
With Talk Like a Pirate Day just behind us, this one’s somehow apropos, in a more serious way: It’s the North American English dialect map (h/t Matador Abroad). Beyond just being a gorgeous thing to look at (the map, ... Read more
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10 of the Best Skateboard Tricks of All Time Caught On Video (Plus 2 Honorable Mentions)
Posted Tue Sep 6, 2011 02:06 PM ET | 0
Before we even get going on this, let’s set some ground rules. Let’s take it as a given that no one’s ever going to agree on the best skateboard tricks of all time, nor even what exactly “the best” ... Read more
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What’s It Like To Travel 7,000 Miles By Muscle Power Alone? TrekEast’s John Davis Knows
Posted Tue Aug 30, 2011 03:23 PM ET | 0
Recently I had a chance to sit down with John Davis of the Wildlands Network to talk about how his ultimately 7,000 mile trip—mostly done on foot, bike, canoe or kayak, and (maybe cross country skis come November—from the ... Read more
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