Men's Journal

FOR A QUICK LAUGH, GOOGLE “Local reporter’s analysis of February.” In the clip, which was originally recorded in 2016 but only recently went viral, St. Louis TV reporter Kevin Killeen explains why his father used to say, “If you can live through February, you’ll live another year.” The month, says Killeen, is so bleak that neither people, animals nor any aspect of nature can escape its pall. He’s got a point—if you live in St. Louis, which is where I grew up. New York City doesn’t fare much better. The streets are sloshing with black snow, half the outdoor sheds built for Covid-safe dining sit empty and the closest (decent) ski destination is a five-hour drive north in Vermont. Luckily, that’s all behind us now. Spring is here and there is…

Four thousand miles west of Los Angeles and 200 miles north of Tahiti in the South Pacific, a ring of white coral atolls surface out of warm turquoise waters. Here, in Tikehau, French Polynesia, looking out his thatch house, shark swimmer Denis Grosmaire watches over migrating whales, and by his estimation, 30 black-tipped sharks. “I like to dive barefoot with tiger sharks,” says the 44-year-old Grosmaire, describing the day this photo was captured in Tikehau in November 2021. Thirty feet down at the edge of a coral reef that drops thousands of feet into the Pacific, he was swimming with two other tiger sharks when an unfamiliar 1,100-pound tiger shark appeared out of the blue. “She is a female, young, less than nine feet and pregnant. I will have some nephews soon,”…

WITH 630 HORSEPOWER, ITS 0 – 60 TIME IS UNDER THREE SECONDS. IF YOU TRIED and failed to reinvent yourself over the past two years, don’t beat yourself up. Spanish fluency and nailing the flambé can prove elusive. Success stories do exist, however. Just look to Maserati, in Modena, Italy, which, by perfecting a new supercar while you’ve been binging Netflix, has made Maserati Maserati again. The brand was once thought of as a contender in sports car tech and racing. Of late, it’s better known for an SUV and sedans built to sit in South Beach traffic. That’s about to change if our recent test drive of the MC20 is any indication. A $216,000 sports car that’s wildly fast and full of character, it’s got handsome lines and bling-y design touches. But…

IF YOU WANT to get near one of the most powerful waterfalls in the United States, bring bolt cutters. Oregon’s Willamette Falls, the nation’s second-largest waterfall by volume, is surrounded by an industrial wasteland—remnants of America’s blue-collar glory days—and is nearly inaccessible. One organization hopes to reimagine the place. “TO SEE THE FALLS YOU MUST GO THROUGH FOUR LOCKED FENCES. THAT’S A DISGRACE.” “To see Willamette Falls from the ground you have to go through four locked chain-link fences,” says Andrew Mason, executive director of the Willamette Falls Trust. “That is how we are displaying the second-largest waterfall in North America. I think that’s a disgrace.” The horseshoe-shaped waterfall is located near Oregon City south of Portland. Industrial blight aside, it’s not as impressive on first glance as Niagara or Yosemite Falls. Yet what…

Throttle through it!” I heard Josh barking through our Bluetooth headsets as my rear tire fishtailed in six inches of sand. Even with knobby tires, my bike struggled as it lost purchase. Riding in sand is a game of momentum and balance—not overcorrecting, not spinning the tires. To complicate matters, I had 60-plus pounds of gear in my rear saddlebags. If momentum started the wrong way, it was game over. Although your instinct is to slow down at signs of trouble, the solution in a situation like this is to hit the gas. So I punched it. The Namib Desert is one of the least inhabited places in the world. With only a few settlements of farmers across a large swatch of southwestern Africa, it stretches from sub-Saharan Angola almost to the…

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