Fun Fact #1: One of Buddha’s teeth is housed in a temple in the town of Kandy! Every year, Kandy hosts the “Festival of the Tooth” to honor Buddha. Fun Fact #2: Sri Lanka was the first country in the world to have a female Prime Minister. Adventure #1: Kandy, Sri Lanka Our first big…
I once heard Yvon Chouinard say in a documentary that “adventure is when everything goes wrong. That’s when the adventure starts.” It’s not that everything went wrong per se, but more so unplanned and unexpected, and that was the start of our adventure. A New Normal – And Not One I Wanted To Get Used To When…
When it comes to picking out the perfect backpacking pack, we wan’t to make sure you have all the big questions answered. With SO many options out there, it can be hard to know what bag is going to go the distance with you. That’s why we’ve put together a guide to help you determine…
Gretchen Pardon was one month and more than 270 miles into her Appalachian Trail thru-hike when she realized she had to leave the trail. It was March 23, less than two weeks after the World Health Organization had officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, when she walked into the city of Hot Springs, NC expecting to…
Even though we are home, we can still dream of faraway places, right?
Join us on a trip through our past adventures to help us all look forward to and plan for future ones.
Ah, life on the trail and in the mountains. It’s beautiful, it’s challenging, it’s…whoops, not supposed to go that way!? If you love the outdoors, you’ve undoubtedly run into scenarios where your adventure hasn’t gone exactly as planned. You forget to bring an essential piece of gear, wildlife intervenes in unexpected ways, or the weather,…
I don’t think many people refer to salmon as “slippery gold” but after spending three months on a fishing boat, I quickly learned that the more fish you caught, the larger the paycheck would be. Just about 5 years ago a friend of mine from high school reached out and made me an offer I…
Even though we are home, we can still dream of faraway places, right?
Join us on a trip through our past adventures.
By: Carson Brown As a photographer it can be easy to fall into the habit of living through a lens. This trip, though, was one for us. Okay, yes I did take a few (hundred) photos but it wasn’t about “live posting”, breaking some other site-seeing PR or checking some “extreme” peaks box. Redirecting our…
Backcountry skiing is everything you love about skiing in-bounds—the rush of carving the perfect turn, the feeling of floating through a powder stash—but without the traffic, either in the parking lot or on the slopes. Sure, you have to earn those turns, but it’s worth the effort, and the hard work makes the view at…