Archive - The Adventurous Life

Snowed in? Watch these MABA videos from the tundra, the beach, the classroom, etc.

And then go outside in the freezing cold and knee-deep snow and do some yourself

Jan 25 • Matt Crossman

Meet the national champion cyclist who is crushing MABA

The Germans call him Das Showman, and for good reason.

Jan 22 • Matt Crossman

The MABA video that will leave you shook

On an astounding act of love and vulnerability

Jan 14 • Matt Crossman

The 'greatest' 'song' about burpees ever 'written'

On finding authentic connections amid the noise

Jan 8 • Matt Crossman

MABA returns: Fall down. Get back up. Together.

Celebrate as this newsletter turns 5.

Jan 1 • Matt Crossman

December 2025

A toast to 2025

Raise a glass to another year, kick it to the curb … and pray for another like it, only more so

Dec 31, 2025 • Matt Crossman

This is barely a Christmas post, but at least it's about a reindeer named after a Russian cosmonaut

Rule No. 1 of walking alongside reindeer was very hard to follow

Dec 25, 2025 • Matt Crossman

#Dadlife: Everything I need to know about parenting I learned while my daughter took her driver's test

And other tales from a dad and kid who might have overthought this iconic rite of passage

Dec 18, 2025 • Matt Crossman

Bonus edition: This photo shows the exact spot my daughter was born

The emerging star (see what I did there?) of this crazy birth story can now drive herself to the hospital, thankyouverymuch

Dec 12, 2025 • Matt Crossman

The most beautiful things I saw this year

On the Grand Canyon, the Northern Lights and my daughter's "oyster face"

Dec 11, 2025 • Matt Crossman

The greatest 'that Mexican cop fist-bumped us after we bribed him story' ever told

Or: An adventure writer’s adventures with law enforcement

Dec 4, 2025 • Matt Crossman

November 2025

Thankful for a cheap-o plastic poncho I bought at a grocery store two days before an epic -- and wet! -- Grand Canyon hike

Sometimes the line between raging success and abject failure is a glorified garbage bag with a hole barely big enough to poke your head through.

Nov 26, 2025 • Matt Crossman

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