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ArchiveDispatches From Cuba: Photos and Stories From a 20-Day Journey
It started with an email from my buddy. Condor, Meet you in the lobby of the Islazul Gran Hotel De Camaguey @8am on March 18th, 2013. I will be in touch – Peregrine. Actually, we’d talked about the possibility of a Cuba trip when Mycah — his name isn’t always Peregrine — and his wife found out the she’d been awarded a fellowship to study urban agriculture there.
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ArchiveThe Bay Area in 4K
There is so much epic mega-ness in Teton Gravity Research’s aerial reel that it’s difficult to contain our bladders (too much information?
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ArchiveStaff Favorites: Ben Bowers
Our third installment of Staff Favorites turns to Mr. Ben Bowers.
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Archive10 Great Summer Reads
Imagine with us: You’ve just left work on a sultry Friday, and damn do you feel good. Why?
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Archive30 Minutes With: Lee Abbamonte
There are globe trotters, and then there’s Lee Abbamonte. Though he doesn’t consider himself a “competitive traveler” per se, he is the youngest American to visit every country (196) in the world.
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ArchiveStaff Favorites: Bradley Hasemeyer
It’s pretty clear that our staff is passionate about gear, and as we strive to bring you the best of the best, we also want to take the time to share our own personal favorites. These are the goods we personally own: our essentials.
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ArchiveJ. Crew on Film – “Holy Jackets”
In Biella, Italy, is situated a textile mill that first opened in 1663, where 3 generations of workers still strive to make the best fabrics in the world. It’s fitting (tailoring pun!) then that J.
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Archive30 Minutes With: Martin Miller
Martin Miller has been hatching money-making schemes ever since he can remember. His early business ventures as a schoolboy included hamster breeding and a magazine for local teenagers.
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ArchiveStaff Favorites: Jason Heaton
It’s pretty clear that our staff is passionate about gear, and as we strive to bring you the best of the best, we also want to take the time to share our own personal favorites. For the next eleven weeks, we’ll bring you each of our writers’ 10 personal favorites.
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ArchiveBattleship Island via Sony Action Cam
We want to hate this Sony Action cam mounted on an RC multi-copter. It’s a drone.
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Archive30 Minutes With: Jake Meyer
Jake Meyer is one of those throwback British adventurers, in the mold of Shackleton, Scott and Fiennes. He’s tough but refined and well-educated, positive but not giddy, understated but confident, and has that mix of derring-do and panache that we admire.
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ArchiveBuilding the World’s Largest Ship (In 76 Seconds)
This video sets the prestige of shipbuilding back at least a decade. “That’s not so bad!” says pretty much every single viewer as the Maersk Line’s Triple-E Vessel is lego-blocked into existence in just over a minute.
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ArchiveDefense Journal | Military Combatives: A Case Study
There’s an assumption, fed by movies and a romanticized view of war, that every American military member is an e-lite hand-to-hand ninja, martial artist, and/or dynamo in the Octagon. While there are many men and women in the military with particular skill in close combat, that is a fact of prior interest, and rarely a result of training received in the military.
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ArchiveHow Ink is Made
We really wanted to hate these ink makers. Their product is outrageously priced, a vital part of enraging machines that jam, make annoying noises and refuse to connect wirelessly to our computers.
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ArchiveNever Enough Alfa
The automotive video wunderkind Petrolicious have struck auto nostalgia gold once again with their latest short dubbed Never Enough Alfa. As a few of you sleuths might have inferred, the video centers on a brand that’s close to more than a few team members’ hearts: Alfa Romeo.
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ArchiveStay: Hyatt Key West
At the invitation of the Hyatt Key West, we shacked up there for a long weekend to explore the island, the last stop in the Keys. While the other Keys are known for their beaches (Bahia Honda), diving (Key Largo) and fishing (Marathon), Key West is known principally for its eccentricity: it’s the place that values individuality, the arts, fresh seafood, rowdy bars, polydactyl cats and drag shows.
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ArchiveTrans-mongolian: A Long Train Journey
Often, the simplest things are the best. Not so often, though, do those simple, excellent things involve a journey of over 4,500 miles.
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ArchiveAvalanche Rescue: Let Loose the Dogs of Snow
The call comes on the radio almost as soon as Belle and her handler, Gerald, reach to top of the Snake Creek lift. There’s been an avalanche in the resort boundary.
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ArchiveI Can’t Drink Caffeine
If I were to drink caffeine my torso would explode. My cardiologist, who I can only assume double majored in pre-med and “buzzkill” as an undergrad, told me if I didn’t avoid nicotine use (not an issue), moderate my alcohol intake (I had to look up what that meant) and completely curb caffeine intake, I’d end up re-staging the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique scene in “Kill Bill”, in which I would play both Uma Thurman and David Caradine.