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How to Prepare for Natural Disasters During a Pandemic
Not to overload you with bad news, but it appears as though the coronavirus pandemic is going to have one more big, unforeseen impact: disaster response. Let’s try to make this as positive a thing as...
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The SUVs and Trucks We Love Are Killing People
Not long ago, I almost died on a bike ride. Headed south on a bike path in Boulder, Colorado, I pulled up to a stoplight and waited for the signal. When it turned green, I pushed off and began to...
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To the Driver Who Hit Me and Ran
Here’s what you did when you hit me with your van. And, yes, I understand that it almost certainly wasn’t you who hit me, but since what happened to me was caused by an unidentified assailant who was...
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What to Do if You're Hit by a Car
America’s streets have gotten safer for those behind the wheel of a car, but they’ve become more dangerous for everyone else. While overall traffic deaths have been on the decline for at least 40...
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What Happens to a Cyclist's Body When It's Hit by a Car
Last summer, 34-year-old Andrew Bernstein, known to his friends as Bernie, was riding his bike alone on a road outside Boulder, Colorado, when he was struck by a vehicle. The driver fled the scene and...
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The Homesteader's Guide to Surviving the Pandemic
Sow True Seed had to post a bouncer at the door. The garden supplier’s small storefront in Asheville, North Carolina, was so swamped in early March that staff began to let only six customers in at a...
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Let's Study Our 'Wild' Food Obsession, Shall We?
The rarity of foraged food is a distinctly modern phenomenon and one that’s led to strange distortions in the way we eat. These days, foods like wild-caught salmon, fiddleheads, or truffles are...
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Surviving a Flash Flood in Zion
Eric Hanson is a seasoned veteran when it comes to canyon country, and on August 4, 2017, he became personally acquainted with just how dangerous the landscape can be. That day, Hanson and three...
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Snapshots of the West During the Pandemic
Photo Gallery: Snapshots of the West During the Pandemic
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Finding Forrest Fenn's Treasure Was Just the Start
Over the weekend, the number of people in the world who know precisely where Forrest Fenn hid his treasure supposedly doubled. We know the finder was a man, from “back east,” according to Fenn, and...
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Preparing for Anything During a Pandemic
I don’t have a lot of practical skills. I know this because, in a pandemic-fueled fit of panic, I made a list of things I know how to do in case modern society crumbles: “pretty good at slacklining”...
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A Kayaker’s Brush with Death
Nouria Newman is one of the best whitewater kayakers in the world. She’s won numerous prestigious competitions and has completed historic first descents of some of the planet’s most dangerous rapids....
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A Promising New COVID-19 Drug Isn't New to Mountaineers
The news hit like a falling serac. Dexamethasone, a corticosteroid known for decades as a silver bullet among mountaineers and high-altitude rescuers, has been shown to do something no other drug has...
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What's in This Overlander's First-Aid Kit
From the folks at Expedition Overland, Oh Hey There with Jeff: How We Organize Our Medical Kit demonstrates what kind of safety supplies these travelers bring along on off-road adventures.
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The Mountain Biker Who Vanished Without a Trace
Hikers go missing with frequency; it stands to reason, there are many of them out there. Runners, too. Berry pickers and mushroom hunters. David Paulides, founder of the North America Bigfoot Search,...
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Trapped Underwater and Running Out of Air
If you were to try to come up with the most outlandish survival story imaginable, you’d be hard pressed to do much better than the tale of Michael Proudfoot, a scuba diver who found himself trapped...
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This Camp Stove Is Virtually Unbreakable
Professional explorer Mike Libecki has burned through a lot of gear on the 85 expeditions he’s done to some of the world’s most remote places. He’s experienced the harshest conditions Mama Nature deals...
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How Iceman Wim Hof Uncovered the Secrets to Our Health
Jökulsárlón Lagoon, Iceland. The air is cold but the water is colder, its surface gridlocked with icebergs. Slabs and hunks and blocks of ice the size of ships, houses, buses—they’re everywhere,...
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How to Survive 5 Extreme Weather Scenarios
Ask any local meteorologist—weather can be unpredictable. A beautiful bluebird day can quickly turn into a thunderstorm with catastrophic lightning, while blizzards and dust storms can sneak up on you...
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"Cougar Guy" Tells the Story Behind His Viral Video
Last Saturday started out normally for Kyle Burgess. The 26-year-old got off work at UPS, changed into his running gear, and then headed to one of his go-to trails in the Wasatch Range on the edge of...
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