So you booked a trip to Italy this summer and can’t get a tourist-free photo of the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Not to worry. Snap about five photos while people mill about and then blend the photos together for a tourist-free image with the snapmaina Tourist Remover. The online tool is free with 100mb of [ more... ]

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Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is working to get Florida’s Everglades put back on a United Nations list of endangered sites. It would reverse the controversial move of the Bush administration, which sought to have it removed. Hopefully Obama remembers Salazar’s hard work on Secretary’s Day. Re-adding the Everglades would mean that the [ more... ]

Inspired by the tanking economy, traffic has picked up lately on the Appalachian Trail. See? It’s not just a handy excuse. “Oh nowhere. Hiking the Appalachian Trail.” Laid-off people and recent college grads who can’t find jobs are making the trip up and down the trail. Is this really what it’s come to? The recession [ more... ]

Two adults in Florida were arrested after wildlife conservation officers caught them with several fish below the size limit. They didn’t have any ID but helpfully provided the wardens with their false names, which the minor with them corrected. Turns out both had outstanding warrants (one for failure to pay child support) and the two [ more... ]

Head into the backcountry without bothering to tell anyone where you’re going or when you’ll be back–Survival Straps has your back with the Paracord Survival Belt. Second only to a personal locator beacon in survival situations, these $75 belts unwind to turn into between 125 and 200ft of paracord. Perfect for hanging laundry, making an [ more... ]

A young Minnesota couple sailing their vessel the “Velvet Glove Cast in Iron” disembarked on a Huck-Fin style Mississippi trip only to be foiled by engine troubles and Johnny Law about 10 miles downstream. Veruschka and Zelda Xox (made-up names, but then again, what names aren’t made up?) built a barge on their friend’s property [ more... ]

There’s something oddly mesmerizing about this UIAA Mountain Equipments Testing video. Everything’s played in real time speed, but watching a carabiner leisurely yawn open and then explode like a frog stuffed with M-80s seems like it’s happening at half speed. Maybe it’s because you figure that if a piece of equipment ever broke it wouldn’t go slowly like Sly Stallone’s lead harness buckle in Cliffhanger, but so quickly you’d never know what went wrong. Either way, I’m sure it’ll never happen.

via The Snaz

Beginning July 1st Utah will do away with those stupid memberships required to get into bars. They were only about $12 per year, but you’d be surprised how limiting they were. Walking around downtown Salt Lake, where they only have one bar allowed per block, we’d almost never try new bars since one of us [ more... ]

You know how people say you’re more likely to get struck by lightening than bitten by a shark? Well, people actually get struck by lightening fairly regularly. In fact, it’s the leading cause of weather related deaths. So it makes sense that there would be a growing number of limbless surfers who get back in [ more... ]