Jason Harper

Learn to Drive On Ice — Arctic Circle Ice

April 24 (Bloomberg) — Getting a killer, no-haggle deal on a desirable car is wonderful. Snagging the deal, plus getting a chance to bash somebody else’s car into snow banks as you careen around frozen lakes in the Arctic Circle is wonderful raised to a whole new level. (more…)

Backtracking Colorado’s Backcountry

SKI MAGAZINE

Warning. This is the last chance to turn around or pass a vehicle for miles. NARROW road with steep drop-offs. If you are not on foot, bike or ATV, turn around NOW!

So reads the sign in our rearview mirror, growing smaller as my father and I drive down the narrow dirt path it warns against.

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Wild On Wyoming’s Best Roads

AUTOMOBILE MAGAZINE

 

Twenty-seven thousand miles of paved and gravel roads. Three hundred seventy-four stoplights. These are Wyoming’s road stats. I try to do the math as my plane flies over the vast countryside. That’s like, well, a whole lot of roads without a lot of stoplights. Pressing my nose to the turboprop’s window, I can, in fact, see them. Roads curlicuing over mountains, arrowing through plains, whoop-de-doing through rolling fields. Arriving from canary-cab-packed Manhattan, all I can think of is all that country and no traffic. (more…)