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Video: 2011 National Parkour Summit competition {Gadling}
Nov 1st 2011 7:12PM I can imagine we'll have a rash of local kids walking away from Gasworks with sprained joints and busted skulls after watching this. ;)
Max
Visit Yellowstone with Ken Burns this winter {Gadling}
Sep 7th 2011 6:11PM To clarify, you can't "soak in the Hot Springs of Mammoth." Maybe if this were the 1920s when people were a little less eco-friendly and a little more ignorant...
A couple miles away you can take a dip in the Boiling River, so perhaps this is what they're referring to.
Max
Video: baby bear attack? {Gadling}
Aug 28th 2011 2:39PM If you come across a bear in the wild, you don't just run away (as the girl in the linked article did). That's about the worst thing to do, as it triggers the bear's predatory instinct.
And of course, as cute as the cub in the video is, if you run into a cub in the wild it's no laughing matter... since mom is likely nearby and won't hesitate to defend her young.
Much has been made of recent bear incidents, most notably the death in Yellowstone last month. I highly recommend reading this first-person account of another bear encounter, which occurred a few days before the death in Yellowstone. It shows how someone handled a close, terrifying bear encounter the right way and lived:
http://forums.yellowstone.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10980
Max
Russian firm reveals plans for a "space hotel" {Gadling}
Aug 16th 2011 12:39PM What a great video... starts playing every time you load the page and when you try to pause it nothing happens. Thumbs down to "AOL News."
Max
Glamping 101: What is "glamorous camping," exactly? {Gadling}
Aug 4th 2011 12:01PM "...a lot MORE special..." I see my morning proofreading skills still need work. :P
Glamping 101: What is "glamorous camping," exactly? {Gadling}
Aug 4th 2011 11:55AM I've done this type of thing in Africa, and as mentioned it certainly isn't cheap. It was very, very nice, but I'm not sure that the experience was necessarily made a lot special just by the fact that the walls were made of canvas... unless you count the shrew scuttling about in the middle of the night pulling off bits of thread for nesting materials, the dik dik urinating on our doorstep and the hippo running into our front porch in the middle of the night.
Max
Chasing leopard seals in Antarctica {Gadling}
Jul 29th 2011 1:32PM Photographer Paul Nicklen has an amazing video from his close encounter with a leopard seal. He came away with a number of great images as the seal kept bringing him dead penguins it had caught (one of which was voted one of the top nature images of all time by one organization).
The video is worth a look if you can find it.
Max
Is Dhani Jones the most interesting man in the world? {Gadling}
Jul 21st 2011 4:30PM Nice interview. I enjoyed the couple episodes of the show that I saw. It was nice to see a "big time" US athlete plunge head-long into the foreign experience and take on athletic and cultural challenges.
Photo of the day- Bicycles in Copenhagen {Gadling}
Jul 9th 2011 10:51PM Keep in mind that you may not always get the relevant exif data from an image like this, since it's HDR (High Dynamic Range): a blend of multiple photos taken at different exposures.
Max
Hiker killed by grizzly bear in Yellowstone {Gadling}
Jul 8th 2011 1:28PM Here's a story that's not making the news, and which happened just a couple days prior to the fatal encounter. It's an example of how staying calm and using bear spray can help one survive a close bear encounter.
http://forums.yellowstone.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10980
Max
