Mancing Mania

Ecuador Zipline

This zipline was on the road from Banos to the Amazon jungle in Ecuador. An exciting ride, made even more so by the fact that the people ru...

Remember your last trip to the beach, tripping over coolers and sunscreen bottles to find a piece of open sand to spread your beach towel? W...

The Nantahala River flows like the plot of a Stephen King novel. The intensity of the rapids slowly increases, tension building to a screami...

I keep having this bad premonition that I’m going to be conked on the head by a flaming hot basketball-sized rock. This is not an irrational...

“Shaving their bums” is not a memory I expected to bring back from New Zealand but these words from a local sheep rancher stick in my mind. ...

I’ve spent thousands of hours in the wilderness, from the tundra of Alaska’s Denali to the jungles of Costa Rica. In all that time I’ve seen...

Winter is making its last call in the Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky. A late March snowfall provides the last salvo of a dying season, ...

The chilly September mountain air is creeping around my jacket collar, hot chocolate is steaming in my mug. I’m leaning back in a rocking ch...

I feel like some unseen creature is dragging me into the bowels of the earth. I’m stuck—really stuck—in thigh-deep, boot sucking mud, strugg...

Cotopaxi Volcano We had just saddled up and were following Diego, our Ecuadorian mountain biking guide, down the very steep flanks of an...

"Well, it got pretty damn grim around here for a while." says Captain Ron, "I had a couple of shots taken at my boat." W...