Category: Travel & Adventure
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Surf Trip Packing List 2020
The version posted on Wave Tribe is attributed to Derek Dodds. This is the original version I submitted. Published by Wave Tribe | June 10, 2020 Traveling to a new break has a way of smacking you in the face with beauty. Wake up! Stop worrying about emails. It’s time to surf.…
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Surfing Chicama, Peru – The Longest Left
Published by Wave Tribe | September 12, 2019 The version posted on Wave Tribe is attributed to Derek Dodds. This is the original version I submitted. [Credit – Mikey Wier. Caption – Waist high waves at El Point are hard to hate.] Chicama, The Longest Left Chicama is known as…
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GearLab Mountain Bike Review Program
I lead a team to create GearLab’s first mountain bike review in September of 2016 and launched its mountain bike review program with the most scientific and objective testing process known at the time. I continued leading the program until April 2018, when I became a senior managing editor. During…
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Field Tested: Boosted Board
The Boosted Board lets you accelerate fast, skate uphill and ride up to 8 miles on a single electric charge, with almost no learning curve. Published by Hilltromper Santa Cruz | December 4, 2018 by L. Clark Tate. Photos courtesy Boosted Boards Dec. 4, 2015—I was kind of a skater…
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Big Time Rush
Grab the kids and the kayak for a fun weekend float or a wild whitewater ride. Published by Salt Lake City Weekly | June 5, 2014 By L. Clark Tate There’s a reason early explorers scoured the West for river passages: access. The middle-of-nowhere places that a river can take you…
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Winter Outdoor Recreation Guide 2014-15
Project for Salt Lake City Weekly | 2014 Winter Outdoor Recreation Guide 2014-15 No winter is like the last one, even beyond the snow factor: Resorts grow and change, and as jobs, families and interests shift, our recreation routines get shaken up. But there’s no reason to fear change—embrace it,…
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Wind on the Water
Los Gatos Magazine | Summer Guide 2015 by L. Clark Tate Tasting the good life, fast, on Chardonnay II Maybe it’s been awhile since you’ve seen the earth fall away to blue, much less ventured out on salty waters. But the ocean is just over the hill. If you think sailing…
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Winter Outdoor Recreation Guide 2014-15
Project for Salt Lake City Weekly | 2014 Winter Outdoor Recreation Guide 2014-15 No winter is like the last one, even beyond the snow factor: Resorts grow and change, and as jobs, families and interests shift, our recreation routines get shaken up. But there’s no reason to fear change—embrace it,…
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Winter Outdoor Recreation Guide 2014-15
Salt Lake City Weekly | 2015 By Joe Beatty and L. Clark Tate No winter is like the last one, even beyond the snow factor: Resorts grow and change, and as jobs, families and interests shift, our recreation routines get shaken up. But there’s no reason to fear change—embrace it, with the help…
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Rock Solid Map App
GraniteMaps is a clear and reliable app to help mountain bikers and hikers explore Wilder Ranch and UCSC’s upper campus. by L. Clark Tate Jan. 7, 2015—It’s a sunny Saturday in late December out at Wilder Ranch. Austin Riba and I sidestep a passing horse-drawn carriage before rolling up to…
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