Ryan Stuart, explore's gear editor
Ryan Stuart's tell all blog spot on his gear addiction and life and times as explore magazine's gear editor
June 2008 archive
12-hours of pain
I don't know what I'm thinking. I've barely been on my mountain bike this spring and yet I've signed myself up for a 12-hour mountain bike race. The Twelve Hours of Cumberland (coincidentally, I'm sure, the acronym is THC) is an annual race held on the solstice weekend in the ...
The organized slackliner
Slacklining is tightrope walking on climbing webbing. In the past, pumped out climbers and bruised and broken paddlers whittled away their downtown by balancing on the webbing strung between two trees. They'd crank it tight with a pulley system or come-along and then they'd mount the web to prove their ...
An epic and the aftermath
Last night was awful. Despite being physically exhausted, I tossed and turned for hours while my brain replayed an epic afternoon on the river. Two friends and I went to paddle the upper Browns River, a creeky class 4 run, according to this online guidebook www.bc-ww.com. It's only a seven ...
The North Face Fire Road review
I'd rather not drive to go for a run. Instead I often start from home and pound the pavement for a K or two to access the trails. I'm lucky enough that this is an option. But it's also a good testing ground for trail runners. Let's face it, must ...
Puntledge festival fun
Last weekend the Puntledge River Festival came to town and about 200 paddlers followed. The river was packed and the event was a huge success again. The only drawback for local boaters like me, are the line ups at the good play spots. At Tarp and Play, the premier play ...