The other day, I came across a custom made hiking staff from www.custommade.com. This particular staff incorporates a survival kit into it. Survival on a Pole The people at Custom Made took a...
People are always producing lists of the 10-best, 10-worst or 10-whatever you can imagine about outdoor recreation. Let’s take a look at a few of the 10-best (or toughest) trail lists that...
One front in the effort to get kids outdoors enjoying natural play is kindergarten. The idea is that if pre-kindergarten and kindergarten-aged kids spend everyday exploring outdoors they will...
Route verte (“Green Route”) is a bicycle route system that covers the province of Quebec, Canada with 3300 miles of bikeways, and growing. Vélo Québec, a bicycle club, developed the...
If you are looking for a major water-based adventure, the Great Loop may be for you. All it requires is a boat (maximum draft 5 feet, maximum height 19 feet, minimum fuel range 250 miles), some...
Roxanne Quimby is a successful businesswoman, most noted for co-founding Bert’s Bees personal care products company, a philanthropist and conservation advocate. When she sold Bert’s...
I recently took a hike on the Badger Lake Trail in the Sky Lakes Wilderness of south-central Oregon with a group of friends. Nothing unusual about that and we’ll have a story and video...
Historical exploration can take many forms. If you are a member of the Discover Club, you can download our ebook on one approach. However, before we can enjoy historical exploration we must have...
When visiting National Parks we expect to enjoy the quiet beauty they offer. At some National Park facilities, however, electricity is is not available from the grid and noisy, polluting,...
A lot of people died this summer in the National Parks of the U.S. I didn’t highlight these deaths in the weekly Outdoor News simply because I didn’t want to discourage anyone from...