Deep springtime, we bring you the best curated adventure on the internet!
From climbing to paragliding… This week’s send captures big mountain encounters, creative flying, and full-send river laps!
With longer days, the conditions are shifting, and the energy is rising!
For us living in Moab, it means every day is different, climbing, biking, and floating… May delivers, open your hearts!
You can’t find the truth? Come join us!!!
Enjoy the send, live up the stoke!
❤️ — Nico in Moab
🪂 Dancing on air with Jean-Baptiste
📍 The friendly skies
Jean-Baptiste Chandelier plays with the sky. Tight proximity lines, wagga madness, and total control inches off the ground. It’s one of those films that hits a nerve… makes you want to dust off the wing, upgrade the kit, and get back up there!
What are you weighting for!?
⏱️ 5 min
🦌 Frozen in the high country: a bull elk’s final mistake
📍 Rocky Mountains, USA
Aaron Mulkey carries out an unexpected mission... deep in elk country, he finds a massive bull buried in a high alpine valley, taken down by a simple misstep in unforgiving terrain.
He documents the recovery and long haul out in four parts on the ‘gram, turning the moment into both tribute and reminder: in the mountains, one mistake is all it takes.
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🚵 Man’s best trail partner
Is there anything better than chasing your dog down a bike trail?
Jason Lucas flips the script and lets his dog Maya steal the show. Pure joy, dirt, speed, and that bond you can’t fake.
⏱️ 3 min
🌊 Full throttle at Dinkey Creek
📍 Sierra Nevada, California
Cameron Garrison goes into whitewater send mode on Dinkey Creek—stacking drops, charging lines, and making big water look way too casual.
This is spring boating at its rowdiest!
🧗 Projecting the impossible
📍 Rocky Mountains, Colorado
Dope climbing short, where Keenan Griscom steps up to do one thing: unlock the Double Helix. Years in the making, countless attempts, and one final breakthrough. The first ascent, earned the hard way.
⏱️ 10 min
🚵 A bikepack thru Armenia’s high passes
📍 Syunik Province, Armenia
This glimpse into a bikepacking adventure delivers the full spectrum. Starting above 3,000m on hard-packed snow, the descent seems unlikely down steep white slopes
By the time they roll into town, nobody can believe they actually came over the Ishats Pass.
📸 Ty Lekki Q&A. Read about the legendary photographer and how he went from trade work to capturing some of the most iconic images in the outdoor world.
Before apps and beta videos, climbers sketched their routes by hand, turning crags into works of art. This piece, published at UKhillwalking.com, dives into the craft, nostalgia, and precision behind old-school crag drawings.
Media mogul turned conservationist, Turner has spent decades trying to repair the land. It’s a complicated legacy of wealth, wildlife, and the question of what it really means to give back to the planet.
Before splitboarding was everywhere, it was a hacked-together idea from riders who just wanted to go further. This piece dives into the roots of the splitboard and how one simple innovation unlocked access to backcountry terrain. It’s a historical look at the garage-born ingenuity that has led to backcountry adventures all over the world!
🐦 This is what makes ravens so cool
Ravens mate for life, play together, socialize, and fly for the sheer thrill of it. After four years observing them, filmmaker Vance Crofoot captures a surprisingly emotional look into one of the most intelligent animals on Earth.
🪂 When Dogs Fly (Dean Potter & Whisper)
For all the darkness that’s been unpacked about Dean Potter in the recent docu, in When Dogs Fly, Potter sets out to wingsuit BASE jump with his dog, Whisper, turning obsession into something oddly tender.
Goggles on, ears wrapped, flying side by side. It’s wild, controversial, and undeniably human. Legends like Potter have left behind so many moments of pure light.
🌍 Suffering the FOMO?
(Pssst, this is where you should be right now!)
🧗 Rock trip: volcanic tuff, cracks, and wild lines in Central Oregon
If there was ever a moment to go full dirtbag, it’s now! Central Oregon is in season. Here’s a quick itinerary that will satisfy your vertical hankering…
And just outside Bend, some of the state’s best bouldering rounds out the trip.
Late spring (May–early June) is prime in Central Oregon: warm days, cool nights, and dry high desert conditions. Expect big temperature swings, splitter friction, and wide-open landscapes—perfect for long climbing days and campfire nights between zones.
🌊 Powerful swell, empty lineups in Southland, NZ
At the bottom of the world, Southland delivers raw, wind-blown surf with barely anyone out. It’s cold, remote, and wildly beautiful—long beaches, heavy water, and the kind of sessions you earn. Bring a thick wetsuit and a sense of adventure.
Southland faces straight into the Southern Ocean—no island chains, no protection. That means consistent, powerful swell rolling in from Antarctica. When it’s on, it’s serious water.
Water temps: ~8–12°C (46–54°F)
You’ll need a 4/3 wetsuit, boots, maybe hood
This is one of the least crowded surf regions in New Zealand. You’ll often surf alone or with a handful of locals—and an angry sea lion or two…
Make it happen. Email, insert it, here 👇🏼
💥 Stay Stoked. Stay Wild. See you on the next send!
