The thing with being an animal serial killer is that no one thinks it’s out of the ordinary to make rugs or mount the heads of your victims so it’s tough to tell just who’s operating outside the law. Following an eight year investigation Steve Slavinsky was sentenced to five years in jail for hunting [ more... ]

There’s nothing like burning a few cigarettes or huddling around a fire while hanging out in the blazing sun on a red hot day. The Sunlighter Solar Lighter uses a reflective dish to concentrate the sun’s rays onto a tinder holder so you can start a fire. It operates on the same premise as a [ more... ]

New coolers from a company in Florida will meet the regulations necessary to be considered ‘bear proof,’ so entrants to Rocky Mountain National Park (where bear-proof containers are required) will be able to keep their beers cold without locking them in the truck of their cars. What’s more interesting than the fact that one of [ more... ]

In 1912 this man stood at the observation deck of the Eiffel tower, looked at the camera he’d setup to capture his crowning glory, and jumped. The video was supposed to capture his homemade parachute jacket allowing him to slowly float to the ground, but instead captured his death. Maybe he didn’t invent jacket-based base jumping, but he did invent filming yourself doing some insanely stupid, to which we all owe him a debt of gratitude. I mean-how about a test run with a dummy first? We’d likely have all these great ski crash videos without him, but credit has to go to the first guy there.

In a culture of Twitter, Facebook, blogging, and YouTube we’ve come to love over sharing. It’s nice when a company introduces a new product to make that over sharing more seamless and cheaper. GoPro Cameras with their many action sport mounting devices now have a wide-angle camera out. The GoPro Helmet HERO Wide sells for [ more... ]

Hand crank flashlights are kind of stupid and annoying because you need to crank them and they don’t really put out much light. This no-battery light might seem like a better idea until you realize that carrying two AAA batteries would be a lot easier than trying to urinate into a AA-size battery. The NoPoPo [ more... ]

Check in with Backcountry.com Athlete Noah Howell‘s blog for a 16hrs 6min tour from Alta resort to Salt Lake City while tagging all major peaks on the way and exiting Bells Canyon. Howel and his friend Jared logged 8700ft of vert and descended 12700ft on the day. Jared wore spandex, but his shorts helped him [ more... ]

Hikers in Newfoundland will have to begin carrying tennis rackets strapped to bat away birds. A pair of hawks attacked two hikers last week leaving them with cuts and bruises on their heads. The second hiker, Dennis Baker said the bird also attacked him from behind later that day. “All of a sudden, bang, I [ more... ]

Backcountry.com Athlete Jeremy Jones filed a post form his Alps Project-taking split boarding to big lines in Europe. Jones teamed up with local Xavier Delerue for the 10-hour slogs on split boards to track down monster lines. This is a photo of Jones’ essential Euro kit, which he says weighs about 30 pounds and makes [ more... ]