In the military, the priorities of work are the things you have to do at basecamp before you can do anything else. Dig fighting positions, clean weapons, ensure that your ammunition is topped off — those kinds of things are at the top of the list. At the Ascent, ours are Beer, Fire, and Food. …
Fieldcraft is an art, a set of techniques on how to operate seamlessly in any and every environment. Green Berets are well trained to operate among the austere, and one of their core missions is to train others to do the same. So Ascenters learned navigation and survival, among others, and then applied them to …
To summit any one of Colorado’s 14,000 foot Rocky Mountains is a humbling and wholly rewarding experience. With this comes a vantage point well earned, and the feeling of being slightly closer to the heavens. Ascenters came to Colorado to share that experience, holding dear to the lessons of the Challenge from the get go, …
The Challenge gives us access to all sorts of beautiful things. Like a sunrise in Portland. Where, apparently, you never know what, or who, you’ll find. Probably someone we would get along with. Well. We were dying for the story. Likely the beer told the tale? Who knows? At the end of it all, before …
Cleaning GORUCK Rucksacks
When in Philly, the Rocky Steps are a must. Officially, they are the entrance steps to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but unofficially they stand on their own, inviting all fellow underdogs to run up, preferably with fists in the air.
