Entries from 2018-11-01 to 1 month

Review: Osprey Exos/Eja backpack || Super comfy, needs hipbelt pockets

Testing grounds: Rocky Mountain National Park, with its reliable gale-force winds when atop the Continental Divide For two weeks in June and July I wore the new Osprey Exos backpack while guiding overnight trips in Rocky Mountain National …

September Trout Unlimited Meeting Announcement

Please join The Redsides Trout Unlimited Chapter 678 at out next meeting. When: Monday September 10, 6pm Where: New location: Claim 52 Kitchen 1203 Willamette This first meeting of the season will be a meet and greet time to share your sum…

Classic Photos and Essay: A Trip to Remember on New Zealand’s South Island

Written by: Chris Budro For years, New Zealand has been a dream for me. Mouth-watering mountain views, bright turquoise glacial lakes, more trails and adrenaline rushes than you could ever imagine, and most importantly some of the best and…

NEWS: Grands Montets Cable Car Damaged by Fire

A fire has destroyed the popular Lognan cable car at the Grands Montets station in the Argentière valley. The fire has gutted the mid-station and caused five of the eight cables to melt, resulting in one cabin falling onto the glacier belo…

Review: Rifle And Ammo Cases From Pelican

Scott Reekers September 12, 2018 General 190 Views Traveler and hunter Ike Eastman tests the durability of the new lightweight VAULT series of cases by Pelican. Eastman takes a hammer to the VAULT ammo case with impressive results. The VA…

Weekend Stoker: Big Whipper from Ethan Pringle

Get stoked for the weekend with this short video of Ethan Pringle taking a whipper in Spain a few years ago. “I did finally climb through the crack boulder at the bottom and got a high point about 60 feet higher than my last one. “I made i…

The Most Important Conservation Law You’ve Never Heard of Is Set to Expire

In mid-September, in an unusual fit of bipartisanship, the House of Representatives passed by an overwhelming margin the Every Kid Outdoors Act. By a vote of 383 to 2, the representatives approved a bill that will make permanent the popula…

Floyen and beyond.

We went to bed with the weather changing. Low cloud, quite windy and a drop in temperature. Our thoughts that we would awaken to a dull day were quickly dismissed as we opened the blackout curtains. It was a lovely cloudless day.Our plan w…

Tick Offs & Cut Off - My Two Favorite Navigation Tools

Tick Off Points: When navigating from A to B; before you begin moving pick two/three/four points from your map, along your route. These points need to be obvious and reasonably foolproof. Ideally they need to be features you will physicall…

LAB TEST: DeadDownWind vs UVKILLER

Not all hunting products have the science behind them. You find this out when, what’s on the packaging, is not what’s in the bottle. Here’s Wade Nolan’s lab test! VIDEO: Dead Down Wind vs UV KILLERMORE… Lab Test Dead Down Wind vs UV Killer…