The mountains kept it unhinged this week.
Bikers bombing pow, grandmas cranking 5.13, hikers crushing 8,500 miles in a year… and much more
But first — greetz from a sandy tower! 🏜️
🎥 Candide + Fabio = David Meier??
📍 Swiss Alps, Switzerland
If Candide Thovex and Fabio Wibmer had a baby, he’d shred pow on a MTB!
David Meier is that baby. And his acting skills are… 🤭
👉 Watch the carnage here:
🎯 Life Goals: Climbing 5.13… at 73
📍 Franconia, Germany
German grandma Irmgard Braun keeps leveling up every decade.
Brittle bones? Nah.
👉 Watch the crimpfest here:
🥾 2025’s thru-hiker Celebs
📍 AT → PCT → CDT (USA)
Two grinders just knocked out the Border-to-Border, Calendar-Year Triple Crown:
Appalachian Trail (AT) — Georgia → Maine — 2,194 mi (3,531 km)
Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) — Mexico → Canada — 2,650 mi (4,265 km)
Continental Divide Trail (CDT) — Canada → Mexico — 3,100 mi (4,989 km)
Peg Leg finished as the first woman ever to complete the full border-to-border, calendar-year circuit — 8,500+ miles in 293 days.
Punisher wasn’t far behind.
👉 Punisher vid here:
🏂 Wholesome Vid (you didn’t know you needed)
📍 Mt. Hutt, South Island, New Zealand
YouTuber Liam Stevens just wants to find “the best snowboarder in town” for an evening lap at Mt. Hutt. This one weirdly hits the heart.
👉 Watch it →
🧗♂️🌀 Parkour Crew vs. Sandstone — Chaos Ensues
📍 Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, USA
Take a crew of parkour athletes → drop them in the Red Rocks → pray for their fingers.
Oh yeah, and throw in Alex Honnold to make sure nobody gets hurt. Doh!!!
👉 Watch the circus →
🌊 “It’s looking pretty sporty out there!”
📍 Atlantic Coast (USA)
Fish don’t come cheap out in open water.
Not when you’re riding a kayak into a brewing storm, risking it all for that one big catch!
👉 Check the double-capsize here
⚡ Bonus News ⚡
❄️ 5 dead in storm in Torres del Paine
🧗♂️ Access Fund buys new climbing area in NC
🧊 Glacier reveals mountaineer missing 31 years
🐻 Japan sends troops to deal with bear attacks
🌴 “Hurricane” Palm Tree goes extinct, then gets saved in Brasil
🚣♂️ Kayaking tragedy on the Zambezi
📚 Deep Dives
📘 AAC Impact Report (surprisingly good visuals)
🦄 Searching for the saola — Vietnam’s unicorn
🎨 Stiff sentencing for Petroglyph vandal in Utah — Guess which state has a lot of rock art vandals?? 🤔
🇨🇴 En español: La escalada en los Cerros de Mavicure en Colombia
🌍 Suffering the FOMO?
Here’s where YOU should be right now…
🧗 Climbing: Liming, China 🇨🇳
📍 Yunnan Province, China
Sandstone castles. Endless splitters. Monkeys heckling you mid-crux.
It’s basically Asian Indian Creek, but with better food.
🚵 MTB: Sedona, Arizona 🇺🇸
📍 Red Rock Country, Arizona
Temps are dropping → dirt’s perfect.
Scope out Hardline, a big-commitment cliff line with three rollers and zero room for mistakes. Full-send riding.
🎿 Ski/Ride: Northern BC, Canada 🇨🇦
📍 Shames Mountain & Powder King, British Columbia
Lifts are spinning. Crowds are thin. Snow’s stacking.
This should be stop #1 of your winter tour.
Shames Mountain (Canada’s first non-profit ski hill) and Powder King Mountain Resort are spinning lifts!
💥 Stay Stoked. Stay Wild. See you on the next line.
❤️🔥 Your StokedAF fam 🤘
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PS. Here’s your banger of the week: 5.6’s to 5.9’s 😜