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How Danner Makes Its Perfectly Rugged Boots Right Here in the U.S.A.
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How Danner Makes Its Perfectly Rugged Boots Right Here in the U.S.A.
By Beau Hayhoe
The Alps Beyond Ski Season: An Epic Fall Road Trip Through Italy and Switzerland The Alps Beyond Ski Season: An Epic Fall Road Trip Through Italy and Switzerland
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The Alps Beyond Ski Season: An Epic Fall Road Trip Through Italy and Switzerland

Two lesser-known Alpine destinations. Two very different takes on the year-round après-ski lifestyle.

By Jay Gentile
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We Did a Little Sole Searching for Pickup Season

Your basketball shoes might be ready for the court. But are your feet?

By Cool Material
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

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Good Cops Gone Dbag

Maybe they always had it in them; or maybe they just listened to too much Cobra Starship. Whatever the reason, these badass "instruments of the law" have crossed from Protect and Serve to serious douchebag (Holly Madison excluded of course). Even Machiavelli wouldn't be able to stomach half the shit…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Insanely Decorated Cars and Vehicles

What drives someone to go all out decorating their car? Sometimes it's a special occasion, sometimes it's marketing and sometimes it's just for the attention. We're not talking paint jobs and new rims... some folks cover their vehicles with cameras, old tires and even fur. Check out 13 of the…

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Weaponizing Alcohol

Baseball is not America's pastime, you were lied to. America has many pastimes, the most important of which are: alcohol, tobacco, and firearms (Why else would we form another three letter agency to protect them?). That, and hot chicks (see above). Americans treasure few things above their spirits, gunpowder, and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Terribly Absurd Energy Drinks

When did Red Bull become such a faux-pas? It mixes well with vodka, keeps you up all night, and is available everywhere. Never content with stagnating, the beverage market (and associated movie stars, rap guys, and douchebags) has reinvented the wheel with some ridiculously absurd energy drinks. BLOOD Energy Potion…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Beautiful Beer Bottle Labels

The average person is probably drinking a beer from one of major threes - Bud-Inbev, Miller or Coors, but they don't offer much in the way of sweet looking labels. This may not matter to you, but you probably get a kick out of that blue mountain label with the…

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