Two hostel-comrades retired, leaving me sitting on the edge of Nimmo’s pier – a rocky outcropping resembling a broken castle wall which thrust into the southern bay. I drank the end of my can of stout and relaxed as the sunset lazily over the North Atlantic. 5 weeks into my Irish adventure and I was sure Galway’s blend of idyllic village small city ... Read More »
“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” - Joseph Campbell One of the most asked questions of those of us who choose to challenge ourselves by participating in endurance or “extreme” sports is often why. Why make life harder or more uncomfortable than it need ... Read More »
Do you have a place that you call your own? A place that, on the outside, is just a park or a road or a river, and while it may be beautiful to begin with, it holds so much more meaning and importance to you? A few days ago I went for a regular run at Natirar Park, a 404 ... Read More »
"I ran until the physical pain went numb, and the sea of emotional turmoil calmed. I ran until I felt more in the present moment than I’d ever felt before. I ran until I felt, well, alive again. I ran until my life was in perspective again." Read More »
"No wonder people from California are stereotyped as being laid back. Everyone is basically in a bubble of beauty that makes your mind wonder. It is like crack for your senses." Read More »
"From the front porch of a temporary place to call home, I check out my 91 Ford camper van half way through renovation. The camper has all the perks of home; shower, toilet, kitchen and bed, stuffed into a 19ft shell. "So, this is what it feels like to be a home owner," I laugh at the idea." Read More »
Avid outdoorsman and writer, Matteo Santoro, along with Patagonia ambassador, Per Ås and wife set off for a day of snowboard mountaineering in beautiful La Grave, French Alps. "There are not many places in the world where you can go from sipping your café au lait comfortably sitting in a café, to rappel down a couloir 2,000 meters above in about an hour and a half. I love it." Read More »
"Wanderlust builds from your toes. Your feet begin to feel warmer, spring temperatures and energy run up your calves, through your body until the need surpasses any reason not to. Some of us treat it early with intermittent hikes, I had missed it entirely until the fever boiled in my brain." Read More »
"But this isn’t a story about a climbing facility with rafters laced in nearly two decades worth of dust, or its heavy wooden doors that shriek when you slide them shut. This is a story about a community and sense of adventure" Read More »
They wore a red cloth around their waists, nothing else. The men, I assumed, were in the forest. Conversations blended with the birdsong and I sensed I was about to disturb a scene of complete serenity. Read More »
