MDK10 Outside

Added later: a NYT article shows that we do indeed spend too much time in the U.S. worrying about things with venomous things and things wi...

Santa Cruz Island from space, courtesy NASA . Somehow these large islands off the coast of Ventura and Santa Barbara County escape the n...

I was thinking about doing this, or more precisely, thinking about trying to talk someone who has a boat into doing it. Kind of interesting...

Some pointless map geekery for you, if you find yourself driving on the 5. If you're cruising on the 5, stop in one of these places and...

Maybe it was a little greener during the early pleistocene (or whenever the newly discovered Homo namedi lived.) From National Geographic,...

You shall not find new places; other seas you shall not find. This place shall follow you. And you shall walk the same familiar streets, ...

While running in Berkeley today I ran into noted ultrarunner Mike Palmer, as one does. (Seriously, this has happened to me so consistently ...

Below: as Chargers fans explain, even if a stadium isn't actually a good investment, there are much more important things on the line h...

I finally got around to reading Tim Noakes's Lore of Running , and among the many gems in it, is a brief discussion of the race mentione...

While back in PA I didn't have time to do much of anything fun outside, but I did get out for a run from Antietam Lake, up to the Pagoda...

Contiguously, but not all in one go. Previously I ran around the entire Bay . And finally I've crossed the entire Central Valley, unti...

Mercury is a concern in California waters. There was a lot of gold mining here in the central and northern Sierras, and lots of mercury was...

Not this guy, not until this past Sunday. The North Branch of the Mokelumne near Jackson is fantastic and isolated. Now one of my favorit...