PORT NECHES — A local family left their Port Neches home for the wilderness in a three-day race, hiking across mountains and paddling rivers as subjects of a competition show called Survivalists. The Escobedo family, Sergio and Zulema and daughters Mindy and Elaina, traveled to Sun Valley, Idaho, where they […]
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Mar. 21—The Palisades, a wilderness study area located in both the Bridger-Teton and Caribou-Targhee National Forests in Idaho and Wyoming, is finally having its moment in the spotlight. Wyoming Wilderness Association believes this ancestral, unceded territory of the Eastern Shoshone, Shoshone-Bannock, Northern Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne, Absaalooké (Crow) and Oceti Sakowin […]
Feb. 22—Mount Rainier National Park will offer online trip planning and reservations on recreation.gov for the June 1 through Sept. 20 peak hiking season. Visitors will have the opportunity to see real-time site availability and secure definitive backcountry trips for the popular Wonderland Trail and other locations. While the park […]
Refinery 29 UK Forget Fashion Week – The Coolest Brands Are Now Outside London When London’s famously fast-paced fashion scene hurtled to an abrupt halt during the UK’s first stay-at-home order last March, questions about its future gripped the increasingly quiet capital. Now, as the city inches its way through […]
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This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every winter, volunteers from Seattle Mountain Rescue are dispatched to the sites of dozens of harrowing incidents: They rescue backcountry skiers buried in avalanches, help injured hikers descend slick trails—and once, they even removed […]
Survival skills are important to know at any time, but they seem especially needed during this time of rampant wildfires and global pandemic. Colorado native Jason Marsteiner, founder, owner and operator of Colorado Mountain Man Survival in Cripple Creek and The Survival University in Colorado Springs, has the skills and […]