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Home » Climbing » Built for Women, Great for Anyone: La Sportiva Katana Laces Climbing Shoe Review An updated version of a classic, the women’s La Sportiva Katana Laces is a shoe that continues to excel on various terrain from slabs to overhangs, with improved edging and heel hooking capabilities. The Katana Laces has been

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Did you miss a Photo Of The Day last month? View all of July’s selections below! Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your

Home » Biking » Day by Day: How the First Tour de France Femmes Unfolded In true Tour de France fashion, the inaugural Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift included all of the pomp, circumstance, heroics, and controversy expected to surround the world’s greatest cycling race. The eight-stage race covered more than 600 miles and

As trail running shoes have become the footwear of choice among long-distance trekkers, the range of offerings for backpacking-oriented models has exploded, too. While trail runners for backpacking range from minimalist shoes meant to mimic barefoot walking to maximally padded, pumped-up kicks, the bulk—and most of the best-selling models—exist somewhere in-between. Two of the most

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Mist, fog, dramatic light, moody, mysterious: These are conditions under which I’d make photos until my final shutter click. I’d never tire of the process. Conditions change by the second, every moment is breathtaking and every new instance provides new images. What makes these conditions so special is they’re not the norm. When they’re encountered,

What happens when you equip some of the world’s best winter athletes with a rainbow of smoke flares? Red Bull’s creative team had to know. To find out, the team headed to Crans-Montana, Switzerland, where The Nines was in full swing. Once there, it recruited freeskiers and snowboarders to unleash a multicolored arsenal of smoke

I grew up in Boise and I’ve spent a lot of time exploring the best small towns in Idaho. Known as “The Gem State” because of its abundance of natural resources, Idaho often flies under the radar. But those who have been there, know that it is an undiscovered mecca for year-round outdoor recreation. From

One of the best parts of my year is when I get the opportunity to go back to Africa to lead another photo safari. It never ceases to amaze me how many incredible photo ops there are while driving through the Serengeti or other national parks in Tanzania. However, even though there are a lot

Meet the first class of Specialized’s exciting youth development program, a pack of super-stoked kiddos from all over the world. Launched in summer 2022, GEN-S pairs tweens and teens with some of the best mountain bikers in the biz. The goal, according to Specialized’s mission statement, is “to develop the next generation of passionate riders

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Photo By Julie Boyd Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Sapphire Shoreline” by Julie Boyd. Location: Northern California coast. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured

Home » Climbing » IFSC World Cup Climbing Rules & Scoring Explained Perplexed by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC)’s scoring system for World Cup climbing competitions? Here’s how to decrypt Boulder, Lead, and Speed stats and rankings. For anyone unfamiliar with IFSC competition scoring, decoding the climber’s scorecards is like playing chess with

Butterfly Wing. Darrell Gulin saw the beauty in the intricate patterns and color of the scales comprising the wing of a spicebush swallowtail butterfly. It was easy to capture with a long exposure at 1.4x with the Canon RF100mm 2.8L Macro IS USM. Exposure: 2 sec., ƒ/32, ISO 1250. In photography, the term macro is