Tag: Seth Lightcap

Pumpin’: An Introduction to the World of Pump Tracks

Unless you’ve been hanging out by the bike shop water cooler, you might not have heard of the latest craze to hit the mountain bike world – the pump track. A pump track is a small, looping trail system that you can ride continuously without pedaling. Your speed along the pump track is dependent on your ability to gain momentum by “pumping” the tight terrain transitions of the track.

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Crucial Beta: The Climber’s Guidebook

In the adventurous world of rock climbing sometimes knowledge is half the battle. Whether you’re an aspiring climber or a seasoned wall rat, having prior knowledge about the details and difficulties of a climbing route can be a vital first step to a successful ascent. Commonly known in climbing lingo as “beta,” such route information can have life and death consequences

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The Highs and Lows of Slacklining

Slacklining, the art of walking along one-inch wide nylon webbing, is a new school variation of circus style tight-rope walking. Born along chain link fences in Yosemite Valley, the sport of slacklining has become a recreational phenomenon enjoyed worldwide, from the beaches to the highest alpine spires.

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Just Riding Along Crash Testing in the Cycling Industry

You're blazing down a favorite trail on a new full-suspension mountain bike. Your brakes are buttery smooth, your suspension is dialed. The rocky trail melts under your wheels. Feathering the brakes you prepare to hit a small jump that drops off into a creek. The line for the jump is tattooed on your brain. You stand up on the pedals and pull up slightly as you hit the lip.

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Technique Clinic: Winter Camping

The campsite is the focus of much of the joy of camping in the backcountry in winter. With a snow-covered ground, we have many morepotential campsites from which to choose and an opportunity for tremendous creativity in constructing our temporary living quarters. With a little skill and luck, we can enjoy an evening of rarely matched quiet and solitude and a soul-stirring view of wilderness cloaked in white. On winter’s long nights, the campsite is where we spend much of our waking time relaxing with companions, eating (and eating, and eating), and engaging in the age-old form of communication too often absent from our lives back in civilization: conversation.

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Endless Winter: A Passion Bordering on Addiction

There is a fine line between passion and addiction. Passion connotes a ravenous love, often at the edge of control. Addiction suggests a habitual fixation, usually beyond control. So then, how does one define a love so wildly passionate that your soul abandons all control and drowns in pleasure regardless of sacrifice?

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America’s Outdoor Recreation Act Gets Reintroduced in the Senate⁠

Senator Manchin (D-WV) and Senator Barrasso (R-WY) reintroduced America’s Outdoor Recreation Act (AORA), a package of policy that aims to improve outdoor recreation on America’s public lands and waters.⁠

If you care about the outdoors and want to see it protected, enhanced, and expanded, your voice is extremely valuable. ⁠

Please send a letter to your lawmakers to support America's Outdoor Recreation Act. ⁠

👆🏽Click the link 🔗 in our bio to learn more. ⬆️⁠

📸 Leslie Kehmeier, Bureau of Land Management lands⁠

#outdoors #publiclands #nature #outdoorsforeveryone #adventuresports #outdooralliance #outdoortherapy #americasoutdoorrecreationact #myasj #adventuresportsjournal
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🎿The sport of SkiMo racing – aka Ski Mountaineering – has been growing at exponential rates as people discover the joy of human-powered uphill ascents in a resort setting. And few mountains offer as scenic a backdrop for a SkiMo race as @DiamondPeak, which features panoramic Lake Tahoe views from both courses.⁠

⬆️See link 🔗in bio for more info. ⁠

#skimo #skimountaineering #diamondpeak #inclinevillage #tahoenorth #skiing #snowboarding #beardsicles #adventuresports #printmedia ⁠

#MyASJ #AdventureSportsJournal #IndependentMedia
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For our current issue’s Earn Your Beer article, columnist James Murren takes us on a no-agenda, no-plan snow bike ride outside of Yosemite’s south gate in Sierra National Forest.⁠

After “earning his beer” fat biking through a winter wonderland, James enjoyed a can of Citra Dreampint by @newglorybrewery, a hazy offering, followed up with New Glory’s Gummy Worms, a “chewy pale ale.” 🍺⁠

Read about the earning and the beer at the link in our bio 🔗⁠

How do YOU “earn your beer” or other treat? We’d love to hear about your adventures and favorite rewards! ⁠

#EarnYourBeer #MyASJ #fatbiking #snowride #treatyourself
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“From the very beginning, ASJ was intended to be a space where people could be authentic about their adventures. We only sought the truth in our pages. Twenty years later we are still seeking the truth about why we test ourselves in magical landscapes. Not to seek danger for danger’s sake, but because we know that without challenge and a measured dose of risk we can’t evolve and progress as human beings.” 🗻⁠

Welcome to ASJ Editor-in-Chief Matt Niswonger ’s latest message in Issue #127 (read it in full at the 🔗 in our bio). We invite you to pick up a copy and find the inspiration to push past your own physical and emotional comfort zones! 💓⁠

#MyASJ #AdventureSportsJournal #EditorsNote #adventurelife #authenticity
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Calling all artists! 😍 👩‍🎨#repost @yosemiteclimbingassociation
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We’re still looking for 2023 Facelift Art. It can be either landscape or portrait. Strong preference taken to graphic art and line art. Artwork will be on t-shirts, water bottles, our website and more.

Send art to: yosemitefacelift@gmail.com
with “Facelift 2023 Art Submission” in the subject area
before March 6th

Past artwork by: @rhiannon_klee

#artcontest #artists #artsubmission #climbingart #climbing #climbers #yosemite #yosemitevalley #ynp #nationalpark #climbers #art
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We love being a free resource for the California outdoor community. Consider helping us continue our work AND get the chance to WIN a @girosnow Tor or Tenaya Spherical helmet along with a pair of Giro X Fender Axis goggles (total value $440). 🏂🏿 ⛷️⁠

Simply become an ASJ member by 1/24/23 and we’ll enter you into this snow-much-fun drawing. Plus, as an ASJ members you’ll be automatically entered to win prizes throughout the year!⁠

Become a member at the link in our bio!⁠

#MyASJ #LiveForThis #girosnow #adventuresportsjournal
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Roy Tuscany suffered a spinal injury in 2006. After his recovery he founded @hi5sfoundation, a non-profit that has helped hundreds of injured athletes and veterans from across the country. ⁠

“The massive thing I’ve recognized through this work is that sports are a byproduct of community,” Tuscany explains. “We know that if we can get people back to sport, we can use sport as a vehicle to get them back to community and social interaction. We use sport as a way to integrate people back into … people.”⁠

📸 @ming.t.poon⁠

📖Pick up a copy of our latest issue to enjoy the article in our large print format or click the 🔗 in our bio to read more here. ⬆️⁠

#highfivesfoundation #highfivesathletes #accessibility #california #outdoors #community #adaptivesports #palisadestahoe #adventuresportsjournal #myasj
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