Mark Ferrandino has had to overcome learning disabilities, harassment, and prejudice to become Colorado’s new House Speaker. But will leading the Legislature be his toughest challenge yet? Visit 5280 for the article. The images were taken by a great Denver-based photographer, Benjamin Rasmussen.
Odyssey of the Lone Ranger | Switchback Magazine (March 2013): For justin Simoni, life is performance art – even on the longest and toughest mountain bike race in the world. (The .pdf attached is Part I of the 8,000-word story. Check Switchback’s website for Part II.)
For Blood & Oil | Switchback Magazine (November 2012): The Maah Daah Hey trail in the western North Dakota Badlands sits above a sea of oil. Will it survive the boom?
Climber Alex Honnold | Adventure Sports Journal (July 2012): Alex Honnold climbs massive rock faces without ropes. Half of his fans are scared he’ll die. The other half wants everyone to shut up about that possibility. Honnold’s pretty sick of it, too. Climbing the way he does is remarkable, but what I like about him most is that it hasn’t gotten to his head. He’s blunt but friendly and always downplaying his accomplishments. He’s also a fiercely, hilariously outspoken atheist…
Loic Jean-Albert’s Life In Flight | Adventure Sports Journal (April 2012): Loic Jean-Albert straps himself into handmade suits equipped with wings and jumps off of mountains. He revolutionized proximity flying – the art of buzzing cliff edges while plummeting at 100-mph before pulling a parachute for what hopefully becomes a safe landing. His efforts gave birth to a generation of like-minded maniacs who take to the air like rockets and think nothing of terminal velocity…
Odyssey of the Lone Ranger | Switchback Magazine (March 2013): For justin Simoni, life is performance art – even on the longest and toughest mountain bike race in the world. (The .pdf attached is Part I of the 8,000-word story. Check Switchback’s website for Part II.)
For Blood & Oil | Switchback Magazine (November 2012): The Maah Daah Hey trail in the western North Dakota Badlands sits above a sea of oil. Will it survive the boom?
Hunting Poachers With Damien Mander: Between multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Damien Mander spent eight years in the Middle East as a sniper in the Australian Special Forces. Now, from the raw wilderness setting of Zimbabwe, he runs an organization called the International Anti Poaching Foundation (IAPF) with hopes of saving the world’s remaining rhinos from systematic slaughter…
A Chat With the Oldest Man In Porn, Dave Cummings: Dave Cummings is turning 72 years old in a few weeks, and he’ll probably celebrate by banging a bunch of 20-year-old nymphos. They might be fellow porn stars, or they might be what Cummings calls his “groupie girls” – coeds from the nearby University of San Diego who call him up to “blow off some steam.”
Climber Alex Honnold | Adventure Sports Journal (July 2012): Alex Honnold climbs massive rock faces without ropes. Half of his fans are scared he’ll die. The other half wants everyone to shut up about that possibility. Honnold’s pretty sick of it, too. Climbing the way he does is remarkable, but what I like about him most is that it hasn’t gotten to his head. He’s blunt but friendly and always downplaying his accomplishments. He’s also a fiercely, hilariously outspoken atheist…
Loic Jean-Albert’s Life In Flight | Adventure Sports Journal (April 2012): Loic Jean-Albert straps himself into handmade suits equipped with wings and jumps off of mountains. He revolutionized proximity flying – the art of buzzing cliff edges while plummeting at 100-mph before pulling a parachute for what hopefully becomes a safe landing. His efforts gave birth to a generation of like-minded maniacs who take to the air like rockets and think nothing of terminal velocity…
Gearhead’s Paradise | Adventure Sports Journal (August 2012): Twice a year the outdoor industry gathers in Salt Lake City for Outdoor Retailer, the convention of all things adventure. It’s the perfect combination of work – which usually ends around 4 PM with a handful of beers – and time spent doing awesome shit, like slacklining, hiking, climbing, skiing, or whatever other trouble people find themselves in. Oh, right. Then we write about the next new ultra-light, super-strong, insanely innovative whatever…
Loic Jean-Albert straps himself into handmade suits equipped with wings and jumps off of mountains. He revolutionized proximity flying – the art of buzzing cliff edges while plummeting at 100-mph before pulling a parachute for what hopefully becomes a safe landing. His efforts gave birth to a generation of like-minded maniacs who take to the air like rockets and think nothing of terminal velocity.
Like Jeb Corliss, for example, who last year blasted into the side of a cliff while jumping from the summit of Table Mountain in South Africa. But without Jean-Albert, Corliss may never have had the pleasure of barely escaping a gory and crunchy death.
Adventure Sports Journal ran my story on Jean-Albert in Spring 2012.
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