CONTENTS

Foreword by Steve Casimiro

Introduction

Make This Year the Year of Maximum Enthusiasm

Nine Reasons Why You Should Never Bike to Work

Hopefully This Beer Is Thanks Enough: A Gratitude Scale for Outdoorsfolks

Review: My Running Shoes

The Greatest Mountaineering Survival Story Never Told

The Importance of Being a Lifelong Beginner

The Importance of Big Dreams

The Rules for Dating a Dirtbag

Seven Tips on How to Be a Good Tentmate

Are You Ready for Your Summit Photo?

Facts About Climbing Mount Everest

How to Get Your New Boyfriend/Girlfriend to Hate Your Sport

Lose Weight Now with the 10,000-Foot Diet

Make Plans, Not Resolutions

Please Continue Instagramming Your Amazing Life

Sometimes You Get a High-Five from the Universe

The Pure Joy of Fixie Dave

What’s the Best Rain Jacket?

Your Best Vacation Is Someone’s Worst Nightmare

Eleven Ways to Make That Chairlift Ride Awkward

Do You Have Obsessive Campfire Adjustment Syndrome?

Don’t Focus on the Dog Shit

Hiking Is Cool

Introducing the Heavy Backpack Workout

It Turns Out You Can Buy Happiness

The Benefits of Discomfort

The Definition of Adventure

The Hierarchy of Camping

Utahlorado: An Idea for a Mega-State of Awesomeness

What Story Are You Telling Yourself?

Ten Tips to Help Lighten Your Backpack

Thirteen Pieces of Gear Every All-Around Adventurer Should Have

Anatomy of a Sandbag

Backpacking Is Sexy

Here Is a List of Fun Things You Can Do on Your Bicycle

How to Be a Terrible Adventure Partner

How to Be Nice to People

Professional Gear Review: Spoon

Shout Out to Old Bikes

The Twelve Types of Bike Commuters

The Dawn Wall and the Idea of “Wasting Time”

The Power of a Fear-Based Fitness Plan

Ten Ways to Talk About Powder Skiing

Twelve Ways to Make Friends at the Campground

Five Steps to Ordering a Perfect Coffee—Every Time

Dear Foam Roller

F*&# Busy

How to Pack for a Big Trip

Love What You Do, Even If You Don’t “Do What You Love”

On “Fear Disguised as Practicality”

Out of Office Autoreply: I’m in Nature

Review: Water Bottle

The Value of Just Going

What Ski Pass Are You Getting This Year?

Ten Basic Rules for Adventure

Twelve Ways to Help the World Feel Less Hopeless

Twenty Alex Honnold Facts

Fifty-Two Pieces of Adventure Advice

Bears Don’t Care About Your Problems

Birthdays (and Other Days) Should Be More Like Funerals

But Did You Really Climb It?

Dear New Guy at the Climbing Gym

Find a Way Around—or Through

Flake on Me Once . . . Actually, Just Don’t Flake

Honest Climbing Gym Partner Ads

I Believe in Inertia

I Gave Up Coffee for Three Months and This Is What I Learned

I Hate Running

I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind

Less Serious Accidents in North American Mountaineering 2017

The Case for Giving a Shit

The Coffee Drinker’s Guide to Being Present

The Shortcut Is: There Is No Shortcut

What Was That Noise Outside the Tent?

Happiness Is Your Backyard Trail

Twenty-Five Things Said That Might Mean You’re Going to Have an Epic

Complaining Is Useless

I Must Have My Coffee First Thing in the Morning

The Gas Tank Is One-Quarter Full, or Three-Quarters Empty

Acknowledgments