The best thing about all the miles of new super special, very expensive, and highly engineered mountain bike trails in Anchorage is that no one goes to the old, root-filled, muddy, buggy, slow and painful ones anymore. At least in the summer, my favorite old haunts are ghost towns. In the winter, they’re full of [...]
Read MoreThis is enough of a cautionary tale that I wish I was the kind of person to take pictures of anything and everything at the drop of a hat. I’d have some scary mangled motorcycle pictures for you. It’s safe to say that spring has arrived in Alaska. Temperatures are mostly sorta for the most [...]
Read More moto, travelI closed the sale on my Multistrada today. I rode it all last summer and really liked it; it’s a Ducati through and through. A superpowered dual sport with that real Ducati feel. Most days I cruised through roundabouts a few more times than necessary just to feel the way it felt. But it wasn’t [...]
Read More Ducati, motoFrom what I can tell, in order to run a successful magazine with an enormous readership, you simply make lists of stuff and rotate the lists, changing their contents slightly every few years. I used to eschew making lists for blog posts, but I obviously got over that, because you people really seem to love [...]
Read More adventure, Humor, travelI’m getting gear industry fatigue. The constant silly and overblown marketing and equally silly and overblown consumer reaction to said marketing just makes me tired. I just saw an article about “essentials for heli-skiing” followed by a list of highly specific brands and products, most of which were just provided to the writer as part [...]
Read More gear, industry![It's neck deep powder every day when you're a dog. [Subtitle: Awww! That FACE!]](http://geargals.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_0588-195x146.jpg "IMG_0588")
Finally we have a proper winter storm sitting over southcentral Alaska. The tradition of the late season snow dump is still alive. This was threatening to rival the 36-inches-in-48-hours storm of….some years back (you Alaskans know which one), but it’s not gonna get there. Still, up on Hillside it’s looking like they’ll get at least [...]
Read More Alaska, Anchorage, dogs, GeardogAll of these incredibly awesome photographs were taken by the even more incredibly awesome Andre Horton. Dudes. I love them. They’re so great to have around, mostly because they have tougher fingernails and can help with things like putting keys on and off keychains and opening the battery compartment on my headlamp. It’s gotta be [...]
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For backstory, and the text of Rep. Orcutt’s statement that bicycles cause pollution, click here. I just sent Rep. Orcutt an email, reproduced below in its entirety. I encourage everyone to write to their representatives and legislators when an issue comes up that you care about; many times politicians base their position on whether or [...]
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One of the survival lessons I’ve learned from my many teachers is “understand the source of your stress.” This will help keep you alive when things have gone wrong because it can help you identify a direction to take your situation. When you have an idea of what is bothering you, you can prioritize your [...]
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