Alyssa Roenigk sports • adventure • travel • journalist

The new issue of the magazine is out, with our preview of the 2010 Winter X Games. My story on freeskier Simon Dumont, which explores the physics and psychology behind how the smallest guy in the sport goes bigger than anyone, is on the cover! Check it out online here.

Last year, Horizon Airlines launched the first commercial LAX-Mammoth Mountain flight. Instead of driving six hours from LA (or flying to Reno and driving four hours or flying to San Fran and driving four), you can hop on a 45-minute flight that takes off, heads west and skirts the California coast. Easily the prettiest flight…

I’ve never been one to make too many plans. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned—and I write this with all due respect to Face, B.A. and the rest of the A-Team—they rarely come together. It is much easier, and leads to a much lower disappointment : fun-surprises ratio, if you let life happen and deal…

I can’t believe it is snowboard contest season! It seems like only last week I was sitting in a press box at a southern college football game. Wait. That was last week. (Stay tuned for our BCS Championship preview issue. I’ll be deconstructing the McLeadership styles of Alabama QB Greg McElroy and Texas QB Colt…

Saturday night, there was crying in football. And I kind of loved it. Not the series of events that preceded the tears. As a Gator fan, it was hard to watch Florida lose the SEC title and a shot at the Texas-Florida matchup we’ve been anticipating for a year. But the meaning behind those tears.…

If I didn’t mention it already, It’s cold here in the dirty south. So cold, that tomorrow, local weather forecasters are calling for gameday snow. Yep. You read that right. Chances of snow flurries throughout the day—at the SEC Championship game. In Atlanta! What the heck is going on?! This afternoon, I headed over to…

I arrived in Atlanta tonight for the annual Florida-Alabama game. Oops. I mean the SEC Championship game. And it’s going to be a cold one! Of course, once the game starts, I am an impartial, unbiased reporter. But for now, GO GATORS! And, while I’m at it … GO LONGHORNS! The reporter and the Gator…

In honor of Thanksgiving, I started thinking about the way people express kindness, and why. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, because I’ve spent the past month with a sling on my right arm. For four weeks, it amazed me how much nicer people were to me because of a piece of cloth…

This New Year’s Eve, Travis Pastrana is following up on FMXer Robbie Maddison’s jump onto the Arch de Triumph at the Paris Hotel in Vegas last Dec. 31 by jumping his rally car farther than anyone has jumped a car. The current record of 171 feet is held by TP’s friend/sponsor/DC Shoes owner Ken Block.…

The infrequency of my updates this month provides you the perfect opportunity to become obsessed with two of my favorite people: Lisa and John Siner. They are living my dream year right now, and possibly yours, too. If you’ve ever wanted to quit the real world and travel around the world for a year, you…