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At Meow Wolf Denver, step into an alternate reality
I’d already stared at spinning wheels and leering clowns in one psychedelic room at Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station in Denver, then teetered through a twisted staircase to get to another. Now I found myself crawling into a subterranean space, gazing through a peep...

Solo rower reaches midway point of Northwest Passage expedition
A race is shaping up in the Arctic this season, where three separate expeditions are making their way through the Northwest Passage. I talked this morning with Matty Clarke, who is holed up in Cambridge Bay, roughly the midway point of the 2,100-mile journey. Clarke,...

How’s HEB’s new series of wildlife films? Beary, beary good
A few years ago, I tugged on my boots and dove into the brush of a South Country ranch to look for ocelots with documentary wildlife filmmaker Ben Masters. We didn’t see any of the elusive, spotted cats that day, but Masters captured a ton of video of the slinky...

After 600 miles of Arctic paddling, Austin paddler Jimmy Harvey to head home
Veteran Austin paddler Jimmy Harvey is heading home, leaving German endurance paddler Freya Hoffmeister to finish her roughly 1,000-mile kayak trek through the western Arctic on her own. Hoffmeister had invited Harvey to join her on the expedition, one segment in her...