This April, Logan Pehota bought his first dirt bike. Within a month, he was leading his local pack on some of the gnarliest trails in British Columbia—weighting his foot pegs like a seasoned pro while jumping every hip and tranny in sight. By the end of the summer, he was more focused on dialing in […]

The ink is only a few months dry on Vasu Sojitra’s first tattoo. Black lines carve a striking form against his chestnut-brown skin, etching an intricate five-inch lotus mandala in mehndi design. A nod to Vasu’s Indian heritage, the piece’s circular detail traces the 29-year-old’s bulging left shoulder—a muscle that has developed from years of carrying […]

Hunkered behind the computer at his home in Park City, UT, Tom Wallisch is obsessively researching. He’s not watching ski videos or scouting the next location he wants to film. Actually, it has nothing to do with skiing. He’s doing a deep dive into the stock market, enrolled in an online course on financial analysis.  “My […]

Aymar Navarro felt right at home fighting his way up Colmillo Del Diablo in southern Chile. He was roped together with steep skiing legend Tof Henry, Chilean pioneer Raimundo De Andraca, guide Juan Senoret, and filmmaker Txema Trull. The team had been planning this objective for weeks, a stunning line down the face of a 7,660-foot […]

August 2019, near Thredbo, Australia: The mountains had gotten a thick walloping of snow, creating atypically deep conditions in a country known for its mellow hills. Australia doesn’t even have an official avalanche forecasting authority, but it was dangerous enough to warrant concern. Elyse Saugstad—a professional skier with heaps of backcountry experience—was not at all interested […]

“We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.”—Banksy Patrick Hasburgh’s tattoos don’t seem to match his age. His forearm bears the phrase, NO MORE HEROES, a nod to a 2006 Banksy work that appeared on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. It’s an odd maxim for someone who creates imaginary […]

It wasn’t the 40-foot backflip that Karl Fostvedt threw into his first-ever run in Alaska that really impressed me. Rather, it was his reaction to and preparedness for the heaviest rescue scenario I’ve experienced shortly after his third run that did it.  As the season wound to a close in late April 2019, the Chilkat mountains […]

Gomez’s reputation in the ski community as an all-star guide, skier and dirtbag gave me a starting point when it came to forging a predisposition. It seemed like every time I mentioned my upcoming trip to Chile, somebody would ask if I had plans to meet up with Gomez and was excited to learn that I […]

The pieces for an Iridium Go satellite hotspot were sprawled across Jim’s kitchen counter one midweek afternoon in August. Designed to communicate from the world’s most remote places, John had used the hotspot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Jim would bring it with him to the Himalaya. At one point, John was six days […]

If a mullet was a human being—and if it had a mustache—it would be Parker White. It’s not as random a comparison as it seems. Parker has been sporting both for years, a look that was in full effect when I met him in downtown Bellingham, WA in March of 2018. He and Level 1 Productions […]