View photos of the course and slope at Crested Butte that Ashley Woody had to ski to win the U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championship.

Wreckage photos from plane crashes across the Southern Appalachians.

Check out a paddling photo gallery from the most controversial stretch of water in the Southeast.

View photos from Appalachian Bear Rescue in the Great Smokies.

By Ben Wiggins
Ah, yes…the season is upon us. I don’t mean spring wildflower season or trout fishing season-I mean festival season. Every weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains, you can find a festival celebrating everything from peanuts to beer to kayaking and music.
I haven’t found a better way to knock the rust off of the festival [...]

Chris Sharma was in town for the Horse Pens 40 competition, and many of the competitors had seen his slideshow in Raleigh and Boone just a few days before the comp. So the mood was set by inspiration from his stories, and many climbers had dreams of 5.15b and V16 as they taped up their [...]

Photos by Cirque Productions:
Brian Burnham & Leon Godwin
The Hound Ears bouldering competition has been running now for 15 years and I’ve been attending for quite some time, so I notice the subtle changes that take place on a year-to-year basis. First of all the competitors keep getting younger . . . or I keep getting [...]