Bushwhacking: cool or not cool?
Submit your answers and you'll be entered for a chance to win a snowboard setup from Peter Glenn Ski & Sports. ...
January 2011
Barefoot running: fading fad or running revolution?
Chime in and you could win a Apple iPad courtesy Blue Ridge Outdoors and Subaru!...
The Wood Chop
Chopping fire wood burns 522 calories per hour, making it a dual cardio and strength training exercise.But you don't need to be Paul Bunyan to feel the burn...
How To: Survive a Polar Bear Plunge
Jumping into the ocean during the dead of winter may sound crazy, but every winter, some 3,000 nuts do that very thing at the Virginia Beach Polar Plunge, a cha...
Vertical Hiking
Tree climbing gains foothold among adultsTree climbing? But isn’t that for kids? Once you reach the canopy, you understand. The world gets quiet, and the ru...
Must Do: fabulous February adventures
Ski the Parkway: This mountaintop highway is closed most of the winter. February is our snowiest month. Make it happen. Lynn Cove Viaduct, Skyline Drive, Balsam...
A New Baby Slope
Appalachian Ski Mountain in North Carolina’s High Country has a new beginner slope and teaching area for the 2010/2011 ski season. The gentle cruiser is paired ...
Nice Pipe
Seven Springs Resort in Pennsylvania was selected as the number one terrain park and half pipe on the East Coast by Transworld Snowboarding. This is the second ...
The Hot Twot
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Number of laps you’d run on The Wild Oak Trail (TWOT) to complete The Wild Oak Trail 100, held each February in the George Washington National Forest in Augu...
When have you been a champion?
Will Harlan
I’m the five-time champion of the Fig Leaf Naked 5K. I go balls-out and run hard.Nick Noe
Cornhole Tournament in 2006. My first and last day as ...
Fake a conversation with a beer snob.
You’re a Bud Light guy living in a craft brew world. Don’t despair: we talked with James Gass, founder of the Southern Beer Review about how to fake a conversat...
Nine Year Old Climbs Everest
Should a nine-year-old boy be allowed to climb Mount Everest?
Yes: 32%
Quit coddling today’s youth. Most readers of this generation grew up without umpteen ai...
Blowing Rock, N.C.
For Brian Baldwin, winter is the best time to be in Blowing Rock. The snowbirds have gone south for the season, and the quaint mountain village—perched at 4,000...
The Underground Odyssey of Col. Bruce Hampton
It makes sense that Col. Bruce Hampton is a baseball fan, because the underground music legend is kind of like a minor league manager. During a recent phone con...
Ski Vows
Only global warming can save this marriage.read somewhere that money squabbles and infidelity are the leading causes of divorce, but if my wife ever kicks m...