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Backcountry Riders Fight for their Rights

As the off-season ramps up, resorts and organizations are kicking future planning into high gear. On the heels of a strong winter, growth is the buzzword, with ski areas looking to expand and forest a… more →

blueberry fields forever

Great Sand Dunes

Primal Outdoors wrote 2 weeks ago: Now is one of the best times to visit the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado. T … more →

Tags: Hiking, Camping 2, Colorado, Hiking, Camping, Great Sand Dunes National Park, dunes

Orange Fire, Blue Twilight Along Sisquoc River — 3 comments

Jack Elliott wrote 3 weeks ago: “You know to be silent in the wilderness. It is that which matters, to learn to live with silence.” … more →

Tags: Santa Barbara County, Sisquoc River, Sunset, Camping, backpacking, Hiking, Nature, writing, photos

The tiny funky town of Centennial, Wyoming

Primal Outdoors wrote 2 months ago: We recently skinned up Centennial Ridge, a slice of the Medicine Bow Mountains in southeast Wyoming, … more →

Tags: Skiing, Dogs, Wyoming, Laramie, Snowy Range, Medicine Bow Mountains, centennial, Backcountry skiing, Farmer's Market

Sweet Alpental pow edit by the Snow Troopers

Primal Outdoors wrote 2 months ago: The Snow Troopers from Snoqualmie Pass, Wash., posted a sweet video from a two-foot pow day at Alpen … more →

Tags: Skiing, Snowboarding, Josh Cooley, Skiing, Cascades, Washington State, Backcountry, alpental ski, summit at snoqualmie

Farming Powder

Primal Outdoors wrote 3 months ago: Now this is how to maximize your powder lines. Barely any of the ski tracks cross so that the skiers … more →

Tags: Skiing, Skiing, Utah, Backcountry, Wasatch, Big Cottonwood Canyon

In Search of the Sleeping Lady — 10 comments

Tahoe Sux wrote 4 months ago: New Projects for a New Year This is my first attempt at time-lapse video.  Think of this as a test a … more →

Tags: tamalpais, Nature, outdoors, Photography, Time Lapse, canon g15, Timelapse, Sleeping Lady

Play Day...The Cross on Mt. Tallac — 1 comment

ACwithFT wrote 4 months ago: AC, dropping in. Our work is usually a lot of fun. But, sometimes it's great to get out and lea … more →

Tags: Equipment, back country, Skiing, snowboarding, Backcountry, Tahoe, mt. tallac, mount tallac, The Cross

Special Christmas Delivery

Lauren Lindley wrote 4 months ago: Santa brought us a shit-ton of white stuff and I don’t mean the kind that the kids at Snowglob … more →

Tags: snow, Friends visit Tahoe, Tahoe, Holidays, snowboarding, Skiing, Backcountry, adventure photography, Holidays

Whiteacre Peak, Fossilized Bones, Cougar Prints and Condors — 6 comments

Jack Elliott wrote 5 months ago: California condor soaring over Whiteacre Peak. Stillman (DavidStillman.blogspot.com) had a good idea … more →

Tags: ventura county, Los Padres National Forest, Fossils, sespe wilderness, Hiking, wildlife, Nature, PEAKS, Condors

Chumash Grinding Stone — 5 comments

Jack Elliott wrote 6 months ago: I found this Indian grinding stone (mortar or metate) yesterday afternoon while on a hike in the San … more →

Tags: Santa Barbara County, Chumash, Indians, artifacts, Hiking, mortar, History, Hiking, grinding stone

The Ice Can Stove: A Brief History — 2 comments

Jack Elliott wrote 6 months ago: An uncommon version of an ice can stove fitted with a large chimney cap and a damper on the flue. In … more →

Tags: ventura county, Santa Barbara County, Los Padres National Forest, Camping, backpacking, Hiking, History, Non-Fiction, photos

Project Sespe Creek: Stage III, Piedra Blanca Beyond Devil's Gate — 9 comments

Jack Elliott wrote 7 months ago: Coltrell Flat beside Sespe Creek “Free is the bush, and the desert, and the woods, and the mou … more →

Tags: ventura county, backpacking, Hiking, Sespe, Nature, Wilderness, photos, outdoors, Pics

Stumbling Upon Chumash Bedrock Mortars — 7 comments

Jack Elliott wrote 10 months ago: Chumash bedrock mortar grinding stone in the Santa Barbara County backcountry. There are four differ … more →

Tags: Santa Barbara County, Chumash, Bedrock Mortars, Indians, Native Americans, archaeology, artifacts, Hiking, photos

How I Became an Environmental Activist — 5 comments

Tahoe Sux wrote 11 months ago: I am not an activist in the protesting, letter writing sense.  Instead, I use a chainsaw to speak fo … more →

Tags: Mountain Bike, Tahoe Rim Trail, trails, Mountain Bike, adventure, Tahoe Rim Trail, Lake Tahoe 2, Hiking, Nature

Tahoe Rim Trail- Echo Summit to Barker Pass — 5 comments

Tahoe Sux wrote 1 year ago: Echo Lake from the view of the water taxi The Tahoe Rim Trail (aka TRT) is a 165-mile trail that cir … more →

Tags: Tahoe Rim Trail, trails, Dogs and Paws, Tahoe, Tahoe Rim Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Desolation Wilderness, lake aloha, backpacking

Killarney 100KM Hike

itstheclymb wrote 1 year ago: My friend Carrie and I decided to hike La Cloche before she left for BC (boo so sad). This would be … more →

Tags: Backcountry, Killarney, 100kms, la cloche, Hiking in Ontario

TahoePix- Tahoe Living History — 4 comments

Tahoe Sux wrote 1 year ago: We’ve come across a number of these old cabins dotting the backcountry.  A standing testament … more →

Tags: trails, adventure, Backcountry, Lake Tahoe 2, Nature, outdoors, trails, cabin

In Search of Hidden Waterfalls and Wildflowers — 4 comments

Tahoe Sux wrote 1 year ago: (This post is subtitled- “How I dropped my digital camera into a waterfall.”) Each seaso … more →

Tags: trails, Dogs and Paws, adventure, Springer spaniel, tamalpais, Hiking, Nature, outdoors, Photography

Got Powder?

ACwithFT wrote 1 year ago: Kirkwood usually does. And, they’ve got some legit terrain to go along with all the snow they … more →

Tags: Clients, videos, back country, Skiing, snowboarding, Backcountry, Snowboarding, Skiing, Tahoe South


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