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Old Trucks and Lunchboxes
My dad worked at a coal mine in Wyoming for close to 40 years. For my entire youth, I watched him pack a white Coleman lunchbox and...
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Imagine Camping
We’ve all played the game of “what would you do if you won the lottery?” Where you and your friends take turns imagining where you’d live, how...
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Labor Day and Oklahoma
Oklahoma though - I think it’s time we turned the whole state over to the Tornadoes. All of it. Even that weird long part that sticks out...
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Books, Bugs, and Hot Cheetos
I want to sit in a nice cozy camp chair and drink hot coffee and slowly turn pages and in general be a mature and sophisticated adult...
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Who Taught You How to Drive!?
“YOU JUST DON’T BEAT UP ON A TRUCK LIKE THAT.” - MY DAD When he said this, I was piloting his 1988 Chevy Silverado, and I was maybe 13...
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Dumb Ideas
I bet y'all have done some stupid things. I know I have. For some reason, I was thinking about this one the other day. Back in November...
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Travel, Sadness, and Keeping Memories
I don’t know why I’m like this. Why, when I travel, I make sure to hold back certain places, experiences, sights, sounds. Shared events I will only...
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The Desert is Alive!!
One's love for the outdoors comes in a bunch of flavors. Personally, I (Chris) believe in education, conservation, and responsibility. When I became a father, I very...
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Sobriety and the Goofy Shit Car Club
Hey y'all, As we are only a few weeks away from attending the biggest show of our calendar year - Overland Expo West - I wanted to tell you...
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Patches!
This story was written by Chris Klibowitz and appeared in the January/February 2016 issue of Bicycling Magazine. The patches photographed by Mitch Mandel for the story were...
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Bike Shop Tales: The customer is always right
This story written by Chris Klibowitz originally appeared on Dirt Rag's (RIP) website on May 23, 2017. The shop in the story is where Chris and Curt,...
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Rebecca's Private Idaho
This is an excerpt from a story written by Chris Klibowitz that originally appeared in the January/February 2015 issue of ROAD Magazine. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014....
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Minuteman Adventures
This story was written by Chris Klibowitz, and originally appeared on the Therm-a-Rest blog on October 19, 2017. You want to respond “yes”, but you can’t...
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