Barack Obama signed a bill creating three new hiking trails for the national scenic trails system. The most ambitious is the Pacific Crest Trail. It is the only national scenic trail that connects two others – the Pacific Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail – meaning a person could hike from near the Mexican [ more... ]

Tour stops are out for the 2010 Subaru Freeskiing World Tour this week, so there’s plenty of time to book your flights for all the competitions. They’ve added Revelstoke, British Columbia and La Parva, Chile to the tour, and both of those stops will be happening early September. Athlete registration starts August 3rd for the [ more... ]

Authorities recovered the remains of two hikers in the hills near Palm Springs last week. They can tell that they’re hikers based on their clothing, but the bodies are so severely dehydrated that they can’t even pull fingerprints. They’ll have to rehydrate the bodies and then try to get prints so they can identify the [ more... ]

That lost Eagle Scout who spent three days with an injured ankle on the mountainside and was subsequently fined about $25,000 for his rescue is looking for help. Again. One of his Scoutmasters stared a Facebook group in the hopes that it would gain about 25k members and each person could donate $1 to the [ more... ]

I broke my arm climbing an apple tree in my grandparents’ backyard when I was six. I’d fabricated my own grappling hook from some scrap metal I found in his greenhouse and attached it to a length of hemp rope. It worked really well for the first couple hours, but when I swung too wide [ more... ]

A 19-year-old hiking by himself in Wilderness Park near Lincoln, Nebraska was robbed at gunpoint. The thief demanded the hiker’s money, and when the hiker said he didn’t have any cash, the enterprising robber modified his demand to include the hiker’s clothes. The local news in Lincoln fails to mention how the hiker contacted police [ more... ]

The 22-year-old who set the waterfall height record for kayaking talked to Fox and Friends for some reason yesterday. Too bad he couldn’t get on Glen Beck or Nancy Grace. Tyler Bradt set the 186-foot record and suffered the inane questions of two of Fox and Friends finest. He demonstrates the tuck and says that [ more... ]

The Park Service must really love impassioned rants from snowmobilers and cross country skiers who visit Yellowstone. On Thursday, the Obama administration announced they’d reduce the max number of snowmobiles in the park to 318 per day, down from the 720 per day currently allowed. The average number of visitors who chose to see Yellowstone [ more... ]

Two fire towers in the Grand Canyon National Park have been added to the National Historic Lookout Register. That something called “The National Historic Lookout Register” exists should come as a surprise to no one. What else can guys who live in these things, avoiding human contact for months on end think about, except to [ more... ]

A Shane McConkey fan is producing these lighters and dog tags with a classic Saucer Boy image of Shane’s alter ego. The proceeds go directly to support Shane’s family. A fan of McConkey’s, Jenn Harrelson produces the lighters at the trumpet factory where she works. So far about 80 of them have been sold, so [ more... ]