http://marksundeen.com/blog/ en-us 2008-03-09T11:24:23-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000058.html The March issue of Outside Magazine runs my story on the Udall family: former secretary of Interior Stewart Udall, his son Tom and his nephew Mark. Both Mark and Tom are US congressmen, running for Senate in 2008 in New... Mark Sundeen 2008-03-09T11:24:23-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000057.html The October issue of The Believer runs my true account of my metamorphosis from desert dropout to blogger on the Howard Dean presidential campaign, and subsequent pandemonium. Drawing by Tony Millionaire. Sorry: the comments section is broken, and I... Mark Sundeen 2007-10-01T10:58:53-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000055.html I have a new story about driving 1700 miles from Canada to Mexico on a two-lane highway in the April issue of National Geographic Adventure. It's online here. Plus a radio interview with me on National Geographic World Talk and... Mark Sundeen 2007-03-28T20:07:36-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000056.html My story on wandering the Crimean coast of the Black Sea is in the April issue of Men's Journal. It's not online. Here's an excerpt: Sure, the stinking heaps were a bummer, but ultimately they’d be easier to remedy... Mark Sundeen 2007-03-28T20:02:42-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000050.html Check the New York Times Magazine of October 8 for my profile of Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer. Photo by Catherine Ledner for The New York Times It’s fun being governor of Montana. Just watch Brian Schweitzer bouncing around the streets... Mark Sundeen 2007-01-08T20:22:22-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000053.html Photo by Bonny Makarowicz. From the New York Times, Sunday November 19. "ARE you skiers?” asked the desk clerk at the Best Western. When we said yes, she explained that they had certain rules: no skis in the rooms,... Mark Sundeen 2006-11-21T13:13:11-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000051.html Surfing in Alaska, from the November issue of Outside Magazine. Photos by Stephen Ziegler. Here's an excerpt: JUST AFTER DAWN one morning, Fletcher and I are bouncing down a dirt road in a big rented Chevy truck, looking for... Magazine Stories Mark Sundeen 2006-11-05T00:47:50-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000049.html I have a story in the October issue of Outside about running the Middle Fork of the Flathead river. Photo by Joe Pugliese. MY FRIEND NATE CROSS was turning 40 and wanted to take a river trip. The months... Mark Sundeen 2006-10-02T13:41:26-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000048.html I have a new story out in the August issue of The Believer called The Man Who Would Be Jack London. It is a profile of a Jack London impersonator and I think it is my best published story. You... Magazine Stories Mark Sundeen 2006-08-06T13:49:33-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000046.html I have a new story in the New York Times about driving around Iceland during the summer solstice. It also includes my first-ever audio slide show. The photo above is of Mel Gilles (right) slipping into Viking-period regalia at... Mark Sundeen 2006-06-17T12:27:31-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000045.html This piece was posted originally at Great God Pan. Wim Wenders, the acclaimed German director of Wings of Desire and The Buena Vista Social Club, was in Butte, Montana, the other day for the premiere of his new movie,... Mark Sundeen 2006-04-23T23:48:57-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000044.html My first book, Car Camping, is out now in a new edition. The paperback is published through an arrangement with the Author's Guild and has a new cover (left) which is much closer to the artist Erik Bluhm's original version... Mark Sundeen 2006-03-14T15:13:17-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000043.html Kelsey Ripple and Tim Bluhm in the Ostrander Hut. Photo by Jeff Pflueger. Here's my story about the Ostrander Hut in the Yosemite high country from the New York Times. There's also a slide show.... Magazine Stories Mark Sundeen 2006-02-20T12:14:58-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000041.html The new issue of McSweeney's includes my extremely factual history of Theodore Roosevelt's lifelong obsession with hunting the Sasquatch, or as the creature is known in the North Woods, the Wendigo. The issue is a ready-for-your-mailbox stack of pamphlets and... Magazine Stories Mark Sundeen 2005-10-29T00:00:28-05:00 http://marksundeen.com/blog/archives/000039.html Photo by Jehad Nga for the New York Times Here's my story about rafting the East Glacial River in Iceland from the the New York Times. There's also a slide show of the trip with photos by Jehad Nga... Magazine Stories Mark Sundeen 2005-08-21T16:59:58-05:00