2017 Solar Eclipse Guide
HEY YOU, LOOK UP! WHAT: Total Solar Eclipse—the first to be on the continental U.S. since 1979. WHEN: August 21,…READ MORE
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Mountain Biking Gold
Making It Happen in Park City with Pro Rider Eric Porter and Trail Builder Derek Thomson These days, mountain biking…READ MORE
Get High with Discrete’s Cirque Series
Blame it on Lexie. Once you are halfway up the mountain with another 1,500 feet of vert to go, you’re…READ MORE
The Elemental Life: Adventure Athlete Gavin McClurg
Gavin McClurg is a man obsessed. At 45, his obsessions have changed with the decades. And while some of us…READ MORE
MTB Tahoe: Flylow’s Jeremy Benson and T.A.M.B.A.
Tahoe Area Mountain Bike Association, T.A.M.B.A., is a 501.c3 non-profit based in the Tahoe Basin. Last spring, outerwear company Flylow…READ MORE
Cranking for Change
Consider the experience of walking into a bike shop. There always seems to be an organized chaos and upbeat energy…READ MORE
Biking for the Books
In the category of standout childhood memories, learning to ride a bike has to be one of the most cherished,…READ MORE
Saddle Up! Best Bike Races Around the West This Summer
Calling all cyclists! The mountain, road, and gravel racing calendar is chock full of events around the Mountain West this…READ MORE
HOW TO: Closing Day
No matter how many powder days, early mornings, or games of gnar a season has, no day on the mountain…READ MORE
Break Out the Bike: Best Rides for When the Trails Dry Out
As soon as the snow melts and the mud dries, give your Wahoo and Zwift set-up in your garage a…READ MORE
Addiction in Alta: An epic winter through the eyes (and mind) of an East-turned-West Alta Employee
“DUDE, WAKE UP!” And so I do, in a cold sweat, sheets tangled around my clammy limbs like a junkie.…READ MORE
Spring Snow Safari
We know. Some of you have had enough of the snow and you’re ready for perfect single track. But hold…READ MORE
Winter Highlight: The World Cup Finals in Aspen
The world of competitive alpine skiing descended on Aspen, Colorado, March 15-19 for Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Finals.…READ MORE
How to Live the Dream (and Bring Others with You)
Pre-Race It’s the night before my first Nordic race of the year. I’m sitting in the lobby of the West…READ MORE
The Magic of Equine Therapy at Swiftsure Ranch
Magic: not a term to be used lightly. But for those involved with Swiftsure Ranch, an equine therapy center located…READ MORE
Eager to Energize
If you drive from Jackson, Wyoming, to Sun Valley, Idaho, on Highway 20, you traverse eastern Idaho’s high desert. Known…READ MORE
The Long Ride
Gerry Moffatt’s bio reads like a list of one-uppers. You’ve paddled some sick rivers? Well, Moffatt was the first man…READ MORE
The Vertical Cathedral
I watch houses, vehicles, paved roads, and other man-made objects fade away as we roll deeper into the Pioneer Mountains.…READ MORE
Far From Center: The Science of Sport at the USSA’s Center for Excellence
It’s 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning in August and I’m shirtless, standing inside the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association’s…READ MORE
Stress and Stoke: Scenes of the Snowpocalypse
Named after the largest planet in our solar system, the gas giant Jupiter, the massive winter storm in the first…READ MORE
Five minutes with Ali Meiners, heli-skiing’s only female Operator and General Manager
Since its creation in 2001 by Alaska heli-ski pioneer Theo Meiners, Alaska Rendezvous Guides (ARG) has been a dream machine…READ MORE
Dreamers: Jill Garreffi – Breaking Into The Boy’s Club
Not many ski movie fans have the wherewithal to sit and quietly peruse the credits at the end of adrenalin-packed…READ MORE
Alaskan Dreams: Cody Barnhill
My introduction to Cody Barnhill’s Alaska roots? An iPhone photo taken that afternoon of Cody’s trip down memory lane with…READ MORE
Dreamers: Lexi DuPont – Stop “Shoulding” All over Yourself
After a whirlwind trip to Kyrgyzstan last winter with filmmaker Nayla Tawa, professional big mountain freeskier Lexi DuPont has changed…READ MORE
Dreamers: Dancing With An Alaskan Dragon
One of the essential characteristics of a dreamer is a highly developed imagination. You could argue that you’re either born…READ MORE
Better Branding (for better) – How Protect Our Winters is redefining the way non-profits change (and save) the world.
Common understanding tells us that climate change is a complicated issue. From sifting through scientific predictions, to combative industry-funded research,…READ MORE
My truck and me: A love story.
Dear Lana (del Red), The first time I drove you through town, I felt like everyone was watching us.…READ MORE
TGR’s Tight Loose – Through the Eyes Of A Skier
The beer is flowing and the days are getting colder. As fall leads winter into the party, skiers from around…READ MORE
Noah Wetzel: BigLife BigShot
Noah Wetzel, a Wisconsin native—turned mountain west adventurer, captures photographs that instantly transport you to ridgelines above the clouds, breathless moments on…READ MORE
Dryland Training 101 – Endurance, Strength, and Coordination for Cross Country Skiing
Last minute-ski conditioning for Cross Country (but really all) Skiing I think we can all agree: cross-country skiing is hard…READ MORE
Flying Through Corona Arch
Flying through Corona Arch was a pretty full-on experience – there was a full range of emotions, full commitment, and…READ MORE
It Will Be MONUMENTAL
The first blast of snow hit the Sun Valley high country earlier this week, and locals were abuzz with winter…READ MORE
Rediscovering Glen Canyon
I could not have been more than 10 years old, standing gangly-legged in a stretched out one-piece bathing suit on…READ MORE
October BigShot: Zach Doleac
They are the travelers. The light-chasers. The rules-be-damned adventurers. They capture an experience. They fix a moment. They bring focus…READ MORE
Two Ways To Do The Mountain Collective Pass
Smell that? It’s snow on the horizon. Better dig out your gear, tune your skis, and plan your ski trips.…READ MORE
The Best Fall Rides in the West
MMMmmmm slack season in the mountains. Crowds thin, kids go back to school and we excitedly pull out our layers…READ MORE
One Man’s Perspective on Protecting The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Close your eyes. Let your mind drift to your favorite place in the world. What do you see? Think about…READ MORE
At the Long Table
The placement of ‘the long table’ upon the land is, in itself, art. This site-specific decision and many others that…READ MORE
The Stuff of Legends
Legends. It’s another “L” word that shouldn’t be thrown around lightly. But in the world of avalanche safety, fishing products,…READ MORE
Road Warrior
Very few words can ignite a bar fight between cyclists. They’re usually too busy or exhausted, burning up kilojoules and…READ MORE
A Heroic Leap
As billows of smoke rise over the mountainside and dark clouds begin to settle over the Alaskan wilderness, eight men…READ MORE
A Place Called Home
I don’t have a home (again), which is a weird thing for someone who owned a house for the last…READ MORE
A Flock of Eagles
In Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, the hunt for billion-dollar “unicorn” companies never stops. Yet growing numbers of ambitious…READ MORE
Red Ants Grants
Coco Chanel has a ‘rags-to-riches’ story—one that you’ve heard told in hundreds of different ways, surely. But, if you can…READ MORE
A Town We Love: Sandpoint Idaho
The only consistent sound here in Sandpoint, Idaho, registers somewhere between the quiet of the forest and the distant roar…READ MORE
Ladies of the Land
“All these clouds in fantastical and luminous shapes, these chaotic darknesses, these hanging green and pink immensities, these gaping blazes,…READ MORE
Cast. Drift. I’m hooked.
For those of us who crave the serenity (and thrill) of a life lived outdoors, a transition in season is…READ MORE
The Call of Stein
BigLife salutes Stein and the big life he led. Generations of skiers and mountain town dwellers thank you. In the…READ MORE
Second Nature
It all started when a mutual friend thought Jackson Residents Nona Yehia and Penny McBride ought to meet. There were…READ MORE
Berry Necessary
At 17 years old, Pinedale, Wyoming, native, Megan Grassell was a studious high school junior whose ambition trumped her teachers’…READ MORE